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Number

a

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

3

19 5 4

19 5 3
FIRST

PRESIDENT

VICE-PRESIDENT

Sudler &

Co., Denver

PRESIDENT

John W. Bunn

John M. Hudson

Harry L. Arnold

Stifel, Nicolaus &
Company, Incorpo¬
rated, St. Louis >

Thayer, Baker & Co.,
Philadelphia

Goldman, Sachs &
Co., New York

PhiSSip J. Clark
Amos C.

FIRST
SECRETARY

VICE-PRESIDENT

Philip J. Clark
C. Sudler &

Amos

Co., Denver

SECOND

SECRETARY

John W. Bunn
Stifel, Nicolaus &
Company, Incorpo¬
rated, St. Louis

SECOND

VICE-PRESIDENT

TREASURER

N. S. T. A

VICE-PRESIDENT

TREASURER

Officers
and

Executive
Lex

Jolley

The Robinson-

Weeden

Harry L. Arnold
Goldman, Sachs &

&

Co., Los

S.

R.

Hastings

Walter G. Mason

Livingstone,
& Co.,

Scott, Horner &
Mason, Inc.,
Lynchburg

Crouse

Co., New. York

Detroit

P.

Harper &
Son & Co., Seattle




Inc.,

John F. Egan
First
pany,

California Com¬

San Francisco

H.
S.

Boston

Russell
R.

Hastings

Livingstone,
& Co.,

Crouse

Jolley

The Robinson-

Humphrey Company,
Inc., Atlanta, Ga.

Winton A. Jackson
First

Southwest

Company, Dallas

Detroit

T.M. Wakeley

Hugh R. Schlicting
Wm.

J. B. Maguire & Co.,

Council

Angeles

H. Russell

Lex

James B. Maguire

Lawrence S. Pulliam

Humphrey Company,
Inc., Atlanta, Ga.

Leslie B. Swan
Chas. W. Scranton
&

Co., New Haven

A. C. Allyn and
Company, Incorpo¬
rated, Chicago

T.

Walter

G.

Mason

Scott, Horner &
Mason, Lynchburg

Lawrence S. Pulliam
Weeden & Co., Los

Angeles

A.

M.
C.

Wakeley

Allyn and
Company, Incorpo¬
rated, Chicago

Thursday, October 8, 1953

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Harry L. Arnold
&

Goldman, Sachs

H.
S.

Russell
R.

F.

John

Hastings

1946-1948

Edward H. Welch
Sincere

Equitable Securities
Corp., Nashville

Francisco

San

pany,

1949-1950

H. Frank Burkholder

Egan

First California Com¬

Livingstone,

Crouse & Co., Detroit

Co., New York

1950-1951

1951-1952

1952-1953

1953-1954

and

pany,

R.

Com¬

Victor

Mosley

Stroud & Co.,

Chicago

Inc.

Philadelphia

1945-1946

Thomas Graham
Bankers

Bond

Co.

Louisville

1944-1945

Contents of This Issue
and

Articles

News

Index

to

Affiliates
Page

Page
NSTA Officers and

Executive

Council

(19543
4

1953)
Past

Presidents

Presidential
Our

Thanks

& Co.,
Cleveland

Inc.

All

to

J.

Clark

behalf

(on

of

5

NSTA

Committee)—-Harold B. Smith
in School Financing—Sidney

of

Sources

L.

America's

Strength—Dr.

Dillin

Which

11

Fund

Investment

to

Buy?

—

EDITOR'S

Homer
13

NOTE:

Due

to

circumstances

en¬

tirely beyond our control, we were unable
to publish the talk made at the Convention
by Patrick B. McGinnis, partner, McGinnis
Ginnis & Co., New York City.
Report of Public Relations Committee
Report of Publicity Committee
NSTA Urges End of Capital Gains Tax
Double

Report of

Dividend

at

NSTA

Edward

17

Wm.

Welch

NSTA

Affiliates

Roster

of

and

Members

Advertisers

in

This

Issue

Carolinas, The Security Dealers of the
Chicago, Bond Traders Club of

64

Traders

Connecticut,

Security

Dallas

Club

Bond

Traders

Assn.

18

of

60

66

53
57
39

Denver,

Bond

Club

Detroit

and

Michigan,

of

Securities

Traders

of__

John
28

of

55

27
30
31

1941-1942

73
59

35
20
36
46

71

72

38

19

Paul)
Wichita Bond Traders Club

20

Members

the

NSTA

62

56

63

74

Unaffiliated

Organizations

With
51

Perry Brown

Herbert

Newman, Brown <ft

U.

Co., New Orleans

1940-1941

1939-1940

Thomas A. Akin

Edward D. Jones

Deceased

Edward D. Jones &




Co., St. Louis

1936-1938

1938-1939

Willis

M.

Summers

Troster, Singer & Co.,
N.

Y. C.

Arthur
H.

E.

Farrell

M. Byllesby &
Co., Inc., Chicago

Legg &
Baltimore

48

San Francisco

Local

C.

Company,

60

St.

of

Joseph W. Sener

25

St.

80

52

32

Louis, Security Traders Club of
Security Traders Association
Seattle Security Traders Association
Syracuse, N. Y., Bond Club of
Twin City Bond Traders Club
(Minneapolis-

16

Convention

Report of Special "Rights" Committee
Convention Was
Highly Successful, reports

43

ciation

14

Municipal Committee

Attendance

In

12
14

and

Taxation

Association

Securities

Security Dealers Association
Georgia Security Dealers Association
Houston, Investment Dealers Association of
Kansas City (Missouri), Bond Traders Club of
Los Angeles, Security Traders Assn. of
Louisville, Bond Club of
Memphis Security Dealers Club
Nashville Security Traders Association
New Orleans Security Traders Association
New York, Security Traders Association of
Philadelphia, Investment Traders Assn. of
Pittsburgh Securities Traders Association
Portland
(Oregon), Security Traders Asso¬

Liquidity—

Fahrner

Boston

Florida

10

-----

Mythical

Premium for
J. King

58

Association

Harry

Harold

1942-1944

7
8
9

H. L. Hoffman

Security Dealers Association
Arizona Security Dealers Association
Baltimore, Security Traders Association of

Cincinnati Stock and Bond Club
Cleveland Security Traders Association

6

—

Rocky Mountain Area's Natural Gas Reserves
—W. T. Nightingale
Why Sales Are Lost—Frank M. Cryan
Electronics Industry—Billion Dollar Infant—

Paying

5

Trends

Ruffin

M.

Parsons

NSTA

Greetings—Phillip

Advertising
Current

Edw. E. Parsons, Jr.

of

Alabama

1936-1937

J.

Gentry Daggy
Deceased

1935-1936

Henry J. Arnold
Geo. Eustis

<ft

Cincinnati

Co.,

H.
S.

Blizzard
F.

A.

1934-1935

W. W. Cruttenden
Cruttenden

&

Chicago

Co.,

Convention Number

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL

ftteliden tlaL
The

Western

at Sun
as

sun

set

on

marvelous

a

Convention

them

able assistance to

they took with
of a very in¬
happy week.

am sure

To refresh

memories

structive and

The Bond Club of Denver

our

their

wives.

made

Western
its

at

where

Phillip J. Clark

new

that

I

were

of my

with
of

I do hope

our

"What

to

good friend,

our

be

The

and

Commercial

Chronicle for its marvelous coverage

and

benefiting

and, in this
prove

new

relations

our

administration

to be helpful to the

helps

one

our

—

helps all!"

I, therefore, ask

them along for the benefit of all

members.

Sincerely,

indebted

more

help but result in strength¬

to give me your helpful suggestions and I will

heartiest thanks!

more

customers

endeavor to pass

To all of you who contributed time,
thought and
toward the success of the Convention this

labor

continue

This cannot

organization;

regulatory authority,

you

my

personal acquaintance and to afford the

my aim and ambition during the tenure
office shall be to follow the principles set

our

members in 1954.

I want to extend

mem¬

industry.

Twenty-first Convention, our "coming of,
age," will be the Mecca for many, many more of our

We

object of this Associa¬

the general welfare of its

discussing matters pertinent to the trading
of the security business." I wish to assure

forth above.

ening

our

year,

"The

that

you

more

not, I wish you had been.

were

division

was

about Sun
there, "No," and for

say

little, the preamble of

memory a

of

affiliate.

For those who

those who

hospitality

means

again
best in Salt Lake City,
we
hope soon to have a

Need

Valley?

rived from

were

by the visitors during their
stay in Denver.

short

our

Constitution states:

bers; to establish and maintain high standards of
ethical conduct; to provide the benefits to be de¬

The members

appreciated the calls which

Advertising Committee. We
of the same coopera¬
loyal friend.

our

tion is to promote

en¬

joyed entertaining the delegates
and

(JteetinGl
look forward to another
year
tive spirit from this

homes, scattered from Coast to

Coast, I

5

tion; for the publicity during the year and for the

Valley, Idaho, Saturday, September 19, and
members left the Valley to return to their

the

CHRONICLE

to

PHILLIP

J.

CLARK, President

Financial
National

of the Conven¬

Security Traders Association

By HAROLD B. SMITH, Chairman, NSTA Advertising Committee

Greetings:

ing
of

We look forward every year to

the Convention

not

places before

us

an

up-to-date roster of

only all members and officers of
Association but all
ones as
are

well.

virtually

in the

National

of

the

"Chronicle"

of

hard work of the "Chronicle" staff and the un¬

Murphy, Vince Reilly and Ted Peterson, and

lisher of The

friends and their families at

Convention

of

ours

and

our

exceptional merit.

is

an

and

Year¬

not

only makes
activities of your

a

icle.

We

advertising medium

mark of distinction.

It

with the wisdom of advertising in this issue of

with

the

outstanding

investment

Ranking and brokerage firms of the country, for
a very

inexpensive method of not only reach¬




fellow member, Editor and Pub¬

Commercial and Financial Chron¬

just cannot put into words our sincere

support afforded
our

advertisers.

—

Inc.,

Los

Inc.,

Louisville,

Angeles,

by each and every one of

us

And

to

you

Herb,

may

I,

on

Ky.;

Francis

D.

Miller,

B.

Schas,
J.

Calif.;

Russell Ebinger,

Charles

Ky.;

Howard

C.

King,

C.

Bullington-Schas
Ingen

Van

&

Co.,

&

Reid and Ebinger,

Wagner,

Bankers Bond

The

Leftwich

Ross,

Co.,

Inc.,

Ross,

&

Co.,

Memphis, Tenn.;

Miami,

of

our

express

in

a

31

affiliates

and

4,100 members,

most humble manner the regard and

respect we have for you and the "Chronicle" and
to stress how much your

friendships that

are

day throughout the

aid

means

helpful to

us

in fostering

each trading

Fla.;

F.

HAROLD

B.

Chairman, NSTA Advertising Committee

Pershing & Co.,
120

Broadway,

New Yorfc 5, N. Y.

B.

Evans,

Corporation, Nashville, Tenn.; George M.

O'Cal-

Cumberland Securities

laghan,

Equitable Securities

Corporation, Nashville, Tenn.;

Edward C.

theim

&

Co.,

Corporation,
and

New

Company,

Soren

York City;

New York

City;

Incorporated,

Lear

Pierce,

&

Co.,

H.

Jr., H. M. Byllesby

Jacoby, Jr.
Merril.
Phoenix, Ariz.; John R. Klima, Rped,
Sheldon Parker, Kay, Richards & Co.,

Philadelphia, Pa.;

Fenner & Beane,

Pittsburgh, Pa.;

New York Hanseatic

D. Nielsen,

John C. Carothers,

Thayer, Baker & Co., Philadelphia,

Lynch,

Mine-

Reginald J. Knapp, Wer-

tree, Steiner, Rouse & Co., New Orleans, La.;

Portland, Ore.;

SMITH,

Boice

Kermit

Sorum, Allison-Williams Company, Minneapolis, Minn.; N. Peyton

Pittsburgh, Pa.; George F. Patten,

year.

Inc.,

Memphis, Tenn.;

McNulty, Chas. W. Scranton & Co., New Haven, Conn.; Joseph P.

behalf

appropriate that corporations be impressed

along

a

Affiliate
Chairmen
Lex
Jolley,
The
Robinson-Humphrey
Company, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.; Samuel Preston, Hancock, Blackstock &
Co., Atlanta, Ga.; Nolan C. Darby, Jr., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenher
& Beane, Birmingham, Ala.; Alonzo H. Lee, Sterne, Agee & Leach, B.rmingham, Ala.; James R. Duffy, Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis,
Boston; William S. Hunter, Lee Higginson Corporation, Chicago; Geoig^
F. Oswald, Smart, Clowes & Oswald, Inc., Cincinnati: Harold Rcb rt~.
John E. Joseph & Co., Cincinnati; Fred A. Shorsher, Ball, Burge &
Kraus, Cleveland; Robert Weaver, Hornblower & Weeks, Cleveland;
Gerald D. Bachar, J. A. Hogle & Co., Denver, Colo.; John P. Hagg r„y,
Bosworth, Sullivan & Co., Inc., Denver, Colo.; John O. MacFarlane,
Manley, Bennett & Co., Detroit, Mich.; Herbert Schollenberger, Camp¬
bell, McCarty Co., Inc., Detroit, Mich.; Robert King, Jr., First Sc'rities Corporation, Durham, N. C.; Warren R. Wallace, Fayetteville,
N. Y.; Arthur C. McCall, Alester G. Furman Co., Greenville, S. C.;
Nicholas E. Fon Eisen, Fahnestock & Co., Hartford, Conn.; William H.
Minar, Rotan, Mosle and Moreland, Houston, Texas; Clyde C. Pierce.
Pierce-Carrison Corporation, Jacksonville, Fla.;
Theodore F. Wfcgnei,
Harris, Upham & Co., Kansas City, Mo.; Charles L. Holton, Holton,
Hull & Co., Los Angeles, Calif.; Nieland B. Van Arsdale, Blyth & Co.,

Louisville,

sou¬

To be among the roster of

advertisers therein is

Seibert,

appreciation for their great efforts, and for the

conventions.

play. It is of great value to all

of

|t is

only be attributed to the cooperative

can

always remind us of the friend¬
ships developed as we met with

of

ours,

re¬

spirit of members of this committee and to the

Herb

National Security Traders Associa¬

members

a

This, in view of changed condi¬

Hal

by

book

tion at work and

Committee did

Advertising

job.

taken

possible many
organization but is a permanent

venir of your

is very

men

1953

those in attendance which will

This
Smith

Your

tions,

(

■

,

tiring and faithful energies of Messrs. Ed Beck,

these

B.

i

industry and finance and as a
final memento, candid pictures

our

Harold

tically all of "Investor America."

markable

by outstanding

NSTA:

investment firm of consequence

country who in turn are in touch with prac¬

National

reports, addresses

every

Local

affiliated

Also in these pages

committee

delivered

our
our

Committee Members—In addition to Chairman Smith, the Advertis¬
ing Committee consists of the following Chairmen of the local affiliates
of

Issue of The Commercial and Financial Chronicle

which

members but the principals and personnel

our

Pa.; Randolph E. Soranson,

Jr., George Patten Investment Co.,

Robert W. Pitt, Blyth & Co.,

Hagensieker, Reinholdt & Gardner,

Lewis P.

Inc., Portland, Ore.; Earl

St. Louis, Mo.; Herbert M.

Roach,

Rice &
Company, Incorporated, St. Paul, Minn.; Albert Hewitt, First California
Company Incorporated, San Francisco, Calif.; Paul G. Johnson, Blyth &
Co., Inc., Seattle, Wash.; Sidney J. Sanders, Foster & Marshall, Seattle,
Wash.; Everett W. Snyder, E. W. Snyder and Co., Syracuse, N, Y.;
Orville s. McPherson, Henry ©ahlberg & Company, Tucson, Ariz.; War¬
O.

ren

H.

Wibbing & Co.,

St. Louis,

Mo.; Fred S. Goth, Irving J.

Cortner, The Rwww-P&vldson Company,

Inc., Wichita, Kan.

and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

THE COMMERCIAL

6

Current Trends in School
We
that

capital

local

past

years

districts

school
their

many

have

issuance
sale

tion

bonds.

These

credit

of

districts

inability of local school districts to obtain

n

g

this

has

past, sand

Points

functioned

adequately in
inasmuch as such

bonds

generally enjoy an excel¬
lent reputation as investments, we
might wonder as to why certain

that

order

In

appreciate

fully
which

in

find

districts

school

our

dilemma

the

to the
of the
School
Survey, issued
in December, 1952 by the Office
themselves,

Second

I

Of

more

may

you

refer you
Report

Progress
Facilities

like nature is the 1943

a

port

of

National

the

re¬

Resources

should

offered by our school systems are

dollars

being

Federal

provide

governments

billion

a

annually during

of Education of the Federal Secu¬

to

rity Administration wherein it is
stated that, as of March 1, 1951,
the capital outlay needs of school

nation's

eliminate

(1940)

a

10 year period

deficiencies

in

the

ritories covered by
ceeded $7

educational

in

the

fact

that

generally speaking the direct
borrowing capacity of local school
districts is no longer sufficient to
provide the funds needed to ade¬
quately
house
the
greatly
in¬

in the 37 states and ter¬

the report ex¬
billion. The report fur¬
that the available re-

ther states

including borrowing
of such districts amounted

sources,

plant

American School and

wherein

writer

the

in

needs

"The

University"2
was

of

the

opinion that in terms of "1950"
slightly over $3.8 billion, leav¬ dollars an expenditure of 13.5
increasing
school ing a shortage of potential funds billion dollars would be needed
population of America. In most of of approximately $3.2 billion. during the 1950 decade to provide
our states the borrowing capacity
Thus, if adequate public school the required public elementary
of school districts is constitution¬ facilities are to be provided in the and
secondary school plants.
ally limited to a certain percent¬ area covered by the report some
What Has Caused Heavy
age of the assessed valuation of methods of financing, other than
taxable property in such districts. direct school district
Financing?
borrowing,
Many districts have already ex¬ must be devised. Note, also, that
When faced with such extraor¬
hausted such borrowing capacity while this
report covered 37 states dinary estimates of need for capi¬
and many others find it insuf- and
territories, it did not include tal outlay it is only natural that
f i c i e n t
when
attempting
to such centers of population as we should inquire as to the fac¬
finance current capital require¬
Pennsylvania and New York. tors which cause such need. In
creased

ments.

power

to

and

is

It

an

established

fact

the

When

that the assessed valuation of tax¬

needs

these

of

states

the overall problem
of satisfying the additional capital
ties has not in any
sense
kept requirements of our school sys¬
pace with the rising cost of con¬
tems will appear even more for¬
struction. School districts are thus midable.
For instance,
statistics
generally faced with the impossi¬ compiled by the Pennsylvania De¬
ble problem of having to provide
partment
of
Public
Instruction
much needed school plants at high
show that, as of March 1, 1951,
cost without possessing adequate the school districts of that Com¬
able

property

means

•An

20th

meet such

to

cost.

Annual

known,

monwealth

by
Mr. Ruffin at
the
Cqinvention of the National

Traders Association,
Idaho, Sept. 17, 1953.

Sun

needed

$365 million

address

Security
ley,

are

in most communi¬

aggregate

Val¬

over

in

excess

of

and above their

borrowing

capacity

to

adequately house their pupils.

to

answer

such

ministrators of
tional

great

facilities

provided. Furthermore,
the
generally increasing school
population as well as the shift of
population from section to section
ban

placing
burden
on

is

a

tre¬

that

ation

and

have

designed

is

exists

now

continue

to

states

certain

give

to

much

needed

most

simple

procedure

for

rendering such assistance is
whereby the state issues its

own

general obligation bonds and

uses

the

thereof

proceeds

for

that

grants

of the
this

Planning
Development
.

Board.

2

Harmon, Ray L. "Educational Plant
Needs," The American School and Uni¬
versity, 22nd Annual Edition, 1950-51,
57-62.

to

needy school districts
standards

which

states

plan

with

set

have adopted

California, South
Carolina
and Washington. From
the bond purchasers point of view
are

bond

issues

materially from

obligation

bonds

Since

question.

familiar with

it

ing

cussion

differ

not

other general

of the
you

states

in

that

seem

little

this

procedure

this

at

The

The

more

problem
the

tion

PRIMARY

UTILITIES

has

bgen

where

places
the

the

tionally

INDUSTRIALS

in

of

Pennsyl¬

State

Constitu¬

borrowing

of

Being

prohibited

in

render

its

the

contracting

reviewed and

that

long-term

school

leases

districts

by

violated

the

no

pro¬

vision of the State Constitution

long

so

the school districts could

as

meet their annual rental payments
out
of
their
available
current

Current

revenues.

determined

by

revenues

the

Court

were

in¬

to

clude all taxes and annual appro¬

priations

and

reimbursements

made

school

districts

the

Commonwealth

under

bv

the

the

Penn¬

sylvania system of rendering state
aid to its districts.
The

Pennsylvania State Public

School

Building

Authority

undertaken

numerous

the

districts

school

has

projects for

of

the

Com¬

monwealth and has financed such

proiects through loans which

cur¬

rently aggregate $90 million. Verv
little

publicity has been given to

the

financing

construction

and

of the Authority.

program

this date it has not made

offering

its

of

the less

none

a

As of

public

a

securities.

It

is

active agency

very

obtained

the

from

Retire¬

State

ment Funds. The loans

so

obtained

all suoorted by leases entered

are

into

by

Authority

the

Continved

the

and

68

on vaae

the

issuing
the

of

program

was

3 Established

1935.
of

P.

L.

by

452;

May

the

as¬

4 Act

Pennsylvania

turned to the medium of the pub¬

P.

L.
of

P.

L.

Act

of

June

28,

bv

the

Act

641
and
of
March

re¬

31,

372.

July 5,

5 Greenhalch
64

Act

dissolved

19*9

needed.

of

its

cient

to

district,

entirety by the
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania 5
it being the opinion of the Court
approved

general obligation bonds of suffi¬
amount

such
pay¬

reserves

and

school districts

constitu¬

from

enter

bonds and es¬
there¬

revenue

proposed

limitations

power

school

18,
1946,
established
hv
the

sistance

WITH COMPLETE

developed

stringent

Commonwealth.

MARKETS

Authority"

novel approach to the

Commonwealth

vania

on

"Public

em¬

to

carrying out an extensive school
building construction program and
financing such program on loans

time.

PUBLIC

The

gained by further dis¬

of

statute

necessary

Authority

already

are

this type of financ¬

would
be

would

do

any

also

were

the

the

by

tablish

districts within their jurisdictions.
The

school

Authority and the

districts

by

buildings

local

for.

the

of

already taken action

The

Authority's

allowed

additional assistance to the school

such
Resources

Resources

the

use

sufficient amount to amortize the

that will result if the overall situ¬

within the issuing state. Three

there

of

able

ever
increasing
a
growing number of the districts.
All states of the union are fully
cognizant of the dire consequences

up

adequate

school

the

long-term leases for
buildings at annual rentals,

an

accordance

Report
for 1943. Part 1, Postwar Plant and Pro¬
gram,
Washington,
U.
S.
Government
Printing Office, January, 1943, p. 73.

pp.

is

loans

had

of

and from urban centers to subur¬

communities

of financing the

purpose

into

facilities

new

ex-

Authority
was
em¬
issue revenue bonds

to

powered

be

must

the

school

new

in

backlog of construction

1 National

National

added

are

when

or

never

The

districts.

broadened

that

public educa¬

and thus

mendous

features

result

inquiries the ad¬
our

programs advise us that a
percentage of our school

districts have

continuously
the

with

districts

requirements

construction

for

be

and

districts

lies

answer

to

Planning Board1 wherein it was
recommended that the local, state

ties.

fit to adopt some

alternative method for the financ¬

The

for

brought up to
desired standards. In addition, the
educational programs now being

ing of local public school facili¬

seen

city.

which must be undertaken if such
are

school

of

capital

powered

districts

Public

ceded their local borrowing capa¬

general obligation bonds.

elementary and second¬
ary public school plants. An even
more
startling estimate of the
need for capital outlay for school
facilities appeared in an article on

states have

whose

compared with

as

establishing
State

Building Authority.
The
basic purpose
of this Authority
was the obtaining of funds for the

a s

ap-

statute4

a

Pennsylvania

School

"public authority" system of school

investment knerits of school "revenue" bonds,

our

tax-

parently

the

the

assistance

proce¬

dure

funds through general

financing, especially that provided for under state legislation in Pennsylvania.

the

powers.

Inasmuch

Sidney M. Ruffin

Gives details of the

bonds is avoided.

and

and

their

by

necessary

obligation bonds, describes alternatives whereby issuance of direct obligation

supported

are

educational facilities and the

more

enacted

bonds

faith

stressing need for

Pittsburgh attorney,

pledge the
full

Authority,3 the 1947 Session of
the
Pennsylvania
Legislature

the
gen¬

obliga¬

authority. Following the patpreviously established
accepted
General
State

tern of its

,

and

and

of

eral

i

lic

Partner, Burgwin, Ruffin, Perry & Pohl, Attorneys, Pittsburgh, Pa.

financed

through

needs

Financing

By SIDNEY M. RUFFIN*

all cognizant of the fact

are

for

Thursday, October 8, 1953

A. 2nd. 659

v.

1947, P. L. 12f7.
Woolworth, 361 p. 543,

(1949).

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Convention Number

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Rocky Mountain Area's Natural Gas Reserves
Eight

major structural basins
producing natural gas in
Rocky Mountain area, in ad¬

are

dition

to

one

general

i

two

minor

Montana,

ex¬

tended

Al¬

basins.

Also,

Head of prominent natural

to

tion in

has

proven

be

cubic

important

to

ing that
leum

A11

have

would

not

duced

be

fortuitous,

possibilities
in the

of

devel¬

future

basin

The

are

areas

described

areas

only partially drilled up, and
great expenses of territory are
still to be developed. Continued

are

development and exploration will
the presently

increase

known

re¬

of the Rocky Mountain area

serves

substantially in the coming
In this presentation, I am
endeavoring to present conserva¬
tive figures on the developed nat¬
ural
gas
reserves,
without
at¬
tempting to predict the magnitude
of the undeveloped areas.
The
greatest
of
the Rocky
Mountain gas areas, at the present
very

years.

undoubtedly,

is,

time,

Basin

Juan

Colorado.
ferred

of

New

This

to

the

the

San

by products of natural

as

and

gases,

reasonable

Mexico

Mexico
17

are

a

and

supply
from

gas

total

7V2

trillion

feet.

trillion

estimates
cubic

feet

high

as

when

natural

is

of

before

has

producing
either

as

substantial

very

in

addi¬

of natural gas

reserves

found

this

basin.

The

that

a

year.

(through

System,
San

from

of

the

State

of

of

reserves

something
cubic

Big

Horn

active

with 21

California

the El Paso Pipe Line
with minor amounts of

Juan

in

com¬

gas

and

Basin

At

basin
of

excess

feet,

or

oil.

this

at

billion

800

the

past

out¬

cubic

The

Fe.

Santa

next

gas

than is

now

the

being

area

of

one

been

successful.

very

has .two

now

which,

cubic

fields,

gas

13

reservoir.

Rangely
and

at

area

and

it is

and

it

is

is

pro¬

being

now

its

concerned.

commercial

represents

before
of the

a

is

present

is

ently

Unfortunately,

has

gas

as

serve

year.

where

oil

the

ex¬

pectation of extending the life of

areas

a

field,

with

some

known
of the

still
the
area

the

low heat value
limited

pipe

insofar

line

Rangely

80% of the pres¬
gas

re¬

basin, although wide
remain

ultimate
can

Immediately

to

Clear

Traders Association,
Sept. 16, 1953.

\

National

either

be

field.

the

Here

to

through the company's

about

as

in

Green

River

Basin

one

trillion

The

Colorado

either

in

ciated

with

the

area

of

cess

possibilities

to

the

of
free

oil.

state

or

Present

billion

34

The

gas

asso¬

year.

has

Se¬

The

large

Green

River

undeveloped

cubic

ies

of

in

1952.

natural

basin

are

large

areas

before
basin

state

feet.

The

discover¬

and oil in this

relatively recent and
remain to be explored

the

are

gas

potentialities

Powder

gas

within its boundaries, and beyond

and

production
feet.
at

Gas

about

River

Basin

in

of

Empire State Building
Chrysler Building

New York 1, N. Y.

•

'

some

pro¬

comparatively small

Wertheim
*

&

Lancaster, Pa.
Scranton, Pa.

York, Pa.
Hagerstown, Md.

Rochester, N. Y.
Syracuse, N. Y.
Bridgeton, N. J.
East Orange, N. J.
Morristown, N. J.

JSCembers Afeu)

Direct Private Wires to
All Branch Offices and to our
•

San Francisco
Des Moines

•

•

Buffalo

•

Correspondents in

Sunbury

•

Lincoln

Sioux City—Toronto, Canada




Omaha

at

billion

700

cubic

being produced

billion .cubic

feet

a

area.

natural
gases

YORK

i'.

Rocky

Mountain

petroleum

distillate,

gasoline, liquid petroleum

and

some

chemicals.

of

these

by-products

newest

Continued

York

BROADWAY

NEW

the

include

Co.

Stock Exchange

Vineland, N. J.
Durham, N. C.
Raleigh, N. C.
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Chicago Heights, III.

now

28

industry in
area

1

'

Chicago, III.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Allentown, Pa.

is

368

By-Products

5

UNLISTED TRADING DEPARTMENT

New York 17, N. Y.

of

By-products of the natural gas

NEW YORK 5, N. Y.

•

estimated

feet, with cumulative

from this

year

Other Principal Exchanges

BROADWAY

are

billion cubic

American Stock Exchange

•

uplift

a free
associated with oil. Pres¬

or

reserves

Members
New York Stock Exchange

and

determined.

Wyoming and Montana has
15 fields, of which six can

the duce

ent

the

of

towns

capable of producing gas in

ex¬

1952

Basin

feet,

vicinity,

Sweetgrass-Bowdoin

ap¬

areas

cubic

small

serves

immediate

cubic

during

billion

•of northern Montana has 19 fields

reserves

something in

are

200

has

producing

About eight billion cubic feet was

tested

be determined.

Nebraska

and

capable

the

U nder writers—Distributors

Detroit

during

does not extend to any great dis¬
tance from the areas concerned.

Denver-Julesburg Basin of

fields

of

in

dfy gas

are

40

basins

at the rate of 38 billion cubic feet

Valley,

Sun

be

these

sys¬

tem in the greater Salt Lake area.

The

adjacent

Creek

oil, is perhaps
importance in this dis¬

Reynolds & Co.
120

produced

was

<

uted

produced
use

probably

developed

the

120

!i

feet

The oil development of the
Williston Basin, which has been

gas will be received

1

Idaho,

estimated to

are

1952.

the Clear Creek
estimated reserve

with

feet, and production

pro-

Nightingale at the
the

gas

proximately

a

♦An address by Mr.
Convention of

Annual

curity

reserves

cussion. The developed reserves of

rapidly grow¬

ing State of California needs much
more

North

Dakota, has a
fields, of which only
able to produce gas. The

approximately 200 billion cubic
feet, of which' some four billion

fields capable of produc¬

associated

or

Mexico, particularly Albuquerque
and

Montana,

South

13

are

present

of

portion

by Mountain although the past cumulative pro¬
During Fuel Supply Company under duction of the fields is about 96
billion long-term
contract and
distrib¬ billion cubic feet. The
gas from

feet.

about

year

estimated

are

largely repressured with the

one

an

is

Rangely
duced

with¬
at the

are

development,

ing natural

being used in New

gas

States

Basin, lying within

of

and

total* of

this

The major market for the

is

area

limits

Dakota

completely drilled

duction

addi¬

area.

United

Williston

the

amounts. The present reserves of
Basin
of
Utah
is
up. Pro¬ my opinion, that substantial ad¬ Uintah
the
the
basin
are
about
200 billion
basin, at the ditional gas reserves will be found Wasatch Plateau area where de¬
cubic feet. However, the cumula¬
there.
present time, has been compara¬
The
Green
two tive production is some 500 billion
River
Basin
of velopment during the past
tively small, but current produc¬
tion is about 16 billion cubic feet Wyoming,
Utah and Colorado,
is

area

great

The
the

still untapped.

has

years

will The

present total

of the basin

reserves

the

gas

dry
with

rate of 34 billion cubic feet

the

the

fields

29

drawals from the basin

as

This

Basin.

now

or

Commission.

associated

trillion

The

gas

Canada

Juan

Montana

gas

are

its

Big Horn Basin of Wyom¬

and

present,

engineers and geologists

made

San

mercially

rapidity of development and
exploratory drilling in this area
makes it impossible to evaluate
the
proven
reserves
accurately,
have

be

of

western

Power

capable

The

some

Pacific

not the Pacific

or

receive

matter

The

ing

estimate

cubic

the

to

part

the

Federal

the

in

fields

reserve

Basin

from

entire

Colorado.

and

will

gas,

re¬

as

about

question,
tional

in

orado, New Mexico and Arizona.
The gas found to date is largely

basin with

boundaries, and

the
United cubic feet of
gas was produced
States, presently the only largely from the fields in this basin.
The
populated area in this country greatest
developed gas reserve in
completely unserved with natural the basin is contained

Corners

Four

Juan

Northwest

common

There

that

exploratory work will reveail additional supplies of gas in

chemicals,

some

are

believe

to

tional

three

in Rocky Mountains

gas areas

Powder

River Basin is such that it is only

industry: petro¬

gas

insofar

cided is whether

San

sometimes

is

as

New

its

Northwest. The question to be de¬

because of its proximity to
corner of Utah, Col¬

area,

and

whether

the

of

is concerned. It is

opment

in

to

as

billion

12

produced in 1952.

extent

as
California let for the Green River Basin, at field, has an
so
widely publicized during the
anticipated that the present time, is provided by slightly in excess of 300 billion
past two years, has not thus far
additional pipe line outlets will Mountain Fuel
Supply Company, cubic feet, and another, the Flat
developed new additional reserves
be made for the State of Califor¬
serving
southwestern
Wyoming Canyon structure, has one well of natural
gas. It is definitely an
nia from the San Juan Basin by and the
great Salt Lake Valley of which may be the forerunner of
oil play to date.
the El Paso system.
Utah. It is anticipated that a long a new natural
gas field. A pipe
The Hanna
Basin of southern
life, reserve-wise, will be devel¬ line
is
now
being
constructed Wyoming, and the
Litigation in Progress
adjacent
oped in the Green River Basin to from the Clear Creek field to
Laramie Basin, also in southern
At the present time a Vigorous
adequately serve this outlet.
the southern extension of Moun¬
Wyoming, with a small area in
fight is in progress before the
The Uintah Basin of Utah and tain Fuel
Supply Company's dis¬ Colorado, have some eight fields,
Federal Power Commission as to
Colorado has a total of 15 fields tribution
system near Provo, of which five produce gas in lim¬
whether or not the Pacific North¬
capable of producing natural gas Utah. The delivery point of the ited amounts.
Present reserves of
west Pipe Line Company will be
either in the free state or asso¬
gas is some 63 miles distant from both of these basins is estimated
permitted to take gas from the ciated with oil. The

W. T. Nightingale

when

considered.

within

the discovery and development of
the San Juan area has been most

equate ly

served

the

exploita¬

which

were

wide

be

they

but

the

gas

limited

pipe line out¬

lets,

from Canada. Lists

area

chiefly sulphur. Holds large

of

basins

these

Tells of pending controversy

area.

distillate, natural gasoline, liquid petroleum

tion of natural
gas.

Rocky Mountain

reveals developments in

gas concern

of

feet,

cubic feet

supply¬

in the produc¬

15

NIGHTINGALE*

Federal Power Commission will permit Pacific Northwest
Pipe Line Company
to take gas from the San Juan Basin to the Pacific Northwest or favor

berta, Canada,

of

T.

The

uplift
northern

n

ad

W.

President, Mountain Fuel Supply Company

of

area
i

By

now

the

cn

The

page

is

73

"Mr

8

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THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Thursday, October 8, 1953

Why Sales Are Lost
The
to

study with

lost.

of

purpose

Let

us

the

swer

this

you

if

see

address

how sales

are

cannot

an¬

we

question why sales

through
fingers.

is

By FRANK M. CRYAN*
President of Jefferson

a

Asserting

any

securities organization is the total of the successful

ship and

are

viz:

why they
lost.

of
of

Mr. Cryan gives his views

salesman¬

on

ootn

reason

are

same

the veritable

suc¬

the

on

in

same

territory

in

salesmanship.

few

a

causes

Frank

M.

fore I

Cryan

almost

the

f

O

into

sales

real

makes the difference between sueand

I

say,

is

do not

belong to the body,
does it belong to the body any
less for that?
"Where would the power of
hearing be, if the body were all

and, on a ledger eye.'
or me power of smell, if
institution, the dif- the body were all ear? As it is,
between profit and loss. God has given each one of them
failure

j

am

jn

cess

Hfe

and not

kinds

governed

by luck.
laws

of

operate.
the

is

There

under

There

are

state

and

city,

sue-

by

law

three

are

which

the

we

laws

of

Stresses service

nation.

We

want

beginning

remain

until

of

and

time

made

The third classification we call
the laws of nature. Your life auu

fnnr

the

nance,
roll

is

sale
that

divided

made

business

stockholders

and

its own P°sition in tbe body,

^rtean

employees

th

f

as

become

bodv9

Instead

body

of

that

we

instead of that, we
bave a midtltude of organs and
u

one body'

say

to the hand,

1 have n0 need of thee> or the
head to the feet> 1 have no need

em-

of y°u- 0n the contrary, it is
those Parts of the body which

ployment and will speed the busi-

seem most contemptible that are

of the institution

the nation

of

ness

Increased

increased profits

mean

prosperity.
interested

in

this

why sales

are

lost.

St.

Paul,

in

the road to

on

then,

So

eivp.
Corinthians, gives

all

discussion

of

u«

us

organization

tion

from

the
to

a

in

of

top

an

organiza-

executive

down the line

way

t

busi-

a

the

as

all

office

the

tQ

bottom

makes

the orEach needs the

ganization body.

up

human

but

of

say,

I

fore I
does

less

body:

"The

many;

am

for

Annual

the foot

the

should

that?

address

to
If

by Mr

Convention

the body
the

ear

Cryan

Traders
Association,
Idaho. Sop.. 16, 1953.

succeeds,

one

organization

If

the

anyone

every

business

is

of

cess

Secu-

tbe

organization

whole and the

Valley,

.

,

employed

.

in

a

fails, just that

much is subtracted from the

before the

Sun

any

than the total of

of all those engaged

successes

success.

any

should

of the National

rity

more

in the securities business. If

not the hand, and there-

belong

of

success

is nothing

do not belong to the body,
it

♦An

if

The

body,

one organ

success

sue-

as

of each

a

one

ton down

Why

not

at

George Washingincluding Abra-

to and

time.

ham Lincoln shoveled all of their

of the Presidents have

some

or

to

^SislvT Sns^ouslv

The

think

that

change

the

then

Science in Business

laws

think

of

You

the matter with this one?
out yet," and she

back

at

you

If

It is not

comes

right

by saying: "Well,

you

are

want

you

him

buy.

We maintain

a

good

it

any
sport

a

was

Herbert

that science

Spencer
is

who

word about this question

a

high that,
tioned

organized knowl-

,

the

.

.

world^e^c^enc^oTmedkine0
was

always

lbe sarpe. They put those

results

in the

organized

you

in

form of facts.

them
for

and
the

Thev

laid

the

science

of

No, it is not perfect but

have
your

someone

home

the price is

prospective

advantage of immediate

cannot

of

a

within

the

thing,

be

tacked

It

man.

because

to

power

within

from

is

and

that

the

per¬

desperately

you

call
—

The old idea of giving a
territory, a beautiful sam¬
ple case and perhaps markeddown prices will no longer work.
We are living in a new era.
We
man

a

have

experienced
the
buyer's
market, the seller's market, now
we

in

are

the

Never in the
commerce

thinker's

market.

history of American

has there been

so

much

real, genuine effort to think things
the through and to compare values.
the

man

who reads his medical
jour¬
nals, attends his clinics and is

Employers

up-to-date.

are

ployees

thinking,
em¬
thinking, customers

are

are

thinking. Salesmen

are

grop¬

defines

it

around

way
a

out.

trying to think their
The road to prosperity

lies in the direction of better sell¬

"pod of P's" by saying, "Sales¬ ing. Too many men in these times
manship is the Power to Persuade are whipped. They are laying
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the

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resides

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salesmanship
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ing around

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conditions, the result

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the

the

Another

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Sheldon

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buy

purchase.

second point is that there is
science in business. I believe it

Definition of Salesmanship

Direct Private

to

sells

I
believe in "low-pressure sell¬
ing"—the kind that gets down un¬
der the proposition and lifts it so

M

down

,

you

hat

"What's

isn't going to be worn out
more."

time

a new

say,

worn

not

custom

the

of

when friend wife wants
or a new gown.

do

men

scientifically trained doctor

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man

that, perhaps, he should not have.

sees

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married

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ill

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men

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what

he

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done"8 me one or more of nature'slaws.

if

Eastman, Dillon

selling

Two

next
customer you
approach, a
sale will be made. Either
you sell

him

consciously harmonized with natuFes jaws. Show me the fellow
^ n U s ms toe and tails and

medicine.

an

is

the

foundation

in

the

universal

a

ing for

in proportion

shall button tneir we succeed,

front.

Presidents from

.

the organization.

all

to

is

of
violation of them do we fail,
persuasion.
side or behind? Mrs. Tolles tells
Show me the man who climbs
Persuasion
me that it is not polite in good the ladder of success until he gets
society to eat peas with a knife. UP to the top and then shouts out
Certainly I do not believe in
Why not? It is purely a matter for m°re ladders so that he can "high-pressure selling"—the kind
0f custom.
climb higher and I will show you that over-powers the other fellow
thus getting him to
j am jnformed that all of the one who has consciously or unbuy something

in

vests

other.

the analogy

all, consists not of

a

he

you that he doesn't
saie
The second kind we call the }s governed by immutable laws. want it. The question is, who is
jawg of cust0m. - Custom decrees
we harmonize with those laws
goinjg to be the salesman?

yQU

after

me

manager, traders, salesmen, clerks, food into their mouths with their
runners> etc- The sum total from knives. I am not sure but what

the

very keen
keen
verv

a

analogy of the functions of
ness

necessary to it."

Isn't that true

are

we

message

a

Corinthian.

sales

more

snow

else

By the way, it may be interest¬
you to know that the very

cnange.

-™ade that is not !"y.li£e. ^ ****** and
cbangeable*
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business, your sale and my

tnat gentlemen

"The eye cannot

is

all of the offi-

among

up

every

dollar

Every

the

into

the

the pay-

everyone on

:is

comes

cers

and

vitally interested in

that

Pi-

the

Production

LhslriDution

nf

Hpnartmpnts

business—the Execifuve

by men ana,
change. Yqu cannot

that

of

Everyone

opposite side.

in

terence

no

it

salesman,

the other fellow to go the way he
wants him to go is the salesman.

win

the end of time,

them there is

They are
therefore, they

face

nue.
One wants to go on one side
of the street and the other on the

iroin

were

cau them statutory laws.

ih*

the

good

a

Salesmanship

These laws

cnange.

tne

cuts

legitimate

taking stops.

Yes, the laws of custom change
but, my friends, there is a ciassification of law in wnicn there is
no

the

he
Again, since sales¬
manship is persuasion, then sales¬
manship
begins
where
order-

Laws of Nature

who believes that

one

who

ienow

below

on

not

of loss of sales.

Three Kinds of Laws

to

would not cut.

of the business

Tr.

me

tins;

price

someone

not the eye and there-

am

no

transaction

gooa

mutually profitable

principle.

converted

sales

Lists three

that

price that he gets for his article

must first

the

fails.

man

Just

cjrei

cyclone and human windmill and

talking machine in salesmanship has passed."

factor

as

where another

cess

Contends "time of verbal

proposi¬

tion

Points out salesman

a

mind

in

—

a

this

of

parties concerned.

the

his proposition to get the customer

prospect and believe in

a

believe him.

to

why

man

ceeds

Information, Illustration and Inspiration.

bear

mutuality
is

at

speak

we

profit

transaction

good salesman needs to be equipped with three "Ps,"

every

iaw

admits

There is

one

says

sell himself to

reason

of

question

unless it is

of all those engaged in its activities,

made; 1 i k ewise, there is

a

of

success

intangible)

or

Wnen

uie

reason

why sales

a

(tangible
rrofit."

Fund, Inc.

slip

our

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is

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correspondents in Chicago, Hartford, Los Angeles,

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Electronics Industry
I

happy to be here, and
I would like to say that I think
the members of your organization
am

very

occupy

President, Hoffman Radio

and
ticularly
h

a

e

is

mentions recent advances in television

television

recent

sion in the air

is

in their present

certain
amount

...

confusion,
unrest

about

various

company

extent

is

,,

'

.

the world, to a great

in

electronic

an

company,

sofar

someone

industry is

concerned, and what you have to
say has a great deal of influence.
I think that you should think well

when
am

sure

word. As

Industry

think it is also rather oppor¬
and rather significant that

tune

have

you

invited

from

someone

the electronics industry to talk to¬

night.

Because the electronics in¬

dustry is becoming
for

the

people

over-all

Many

economy.

television, for ex¬
being the industry that

ample, as
changed
1948

rather

a

very

pros¬

successful

is

It

from
into a

year

and

perous
one.

bellwether

a

credit

mediocre

economic
industries
and

new

growth industries that really pro¬
vide the stimulus for growth of
the nation's economy, and afford
new opportunities for young peo¬
ple as well as new opportunities
those

for

people who

are

little

a

and

restless

thing

new.

want to try
some¬
In 1948, television was

given credit for that, and I think
in this forward picture, television
and electronics are going to be an
increasingly important factor in
our

"A
A

I

a

dustry

has

growth

has

haven't

we

what

of

recognize

ple

the

you peo¬

fact

that

electronics

of

63

for

the

of

uses

in

United

the

in

have

We

States, and our
industry
is
employ¬
ing over 750,000 people in the
various phases of its activity. So
this industry that is so new, is
electronic

also

billion

a

matter

of

dollar

fact,

the

infant.

As

largest

a

com¬

in America, and the largest

pany

except

Mr.

Hoffman
of

vention

at

the

transcript
the

20th

of

a

talk by

Annual

National

a

magical to

.

,

and

ices

.

in

device

today

The

is

ex-

aircraft

in

either

power

elec-

on

the

air-

Actu-

plant.

tronic

business

in

and

in

for

fast, its
rapid, that
good definition
is.

But

elec-

has

country

ifwZ

there
a

battle

The

heart of
an(j

controlling

32% of their over-all
In our own company, we have
This affords some idea of a new product department that
the importance of the electron. It already has some six major prodisn't just a group of resistors and ucts which we believe will be
condensors put together, but it is ready to go on the market withinthe harnessing of this electron for the next 12 to 18 months.
They

pair

of shoes

whether

today

trucks,

submarines

is

tanks,

ordinance

battleships,

guided missiles.

or

Living in

it

Split Economy

a

lo^ihc
„

gentlemen have made the decision

as

our

eves^gain

television

w^s

an

hist

And

outgrowth of

wba* we learned form radar and
«ran^
ij.er things during
w

W°rld
War and
II, there
will be new
industrial
commercial

ap-

an<
plications and
products

the

applied

from

come

and

research

annlidpvplnnmpnt

thaf

applied development that

rrti™larinskPument°as

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we

is

University

of

California

Tech

rocket

most

the

of

iaboratories

field

we

COmbine all four services

can

0f

navigation,

communication,

identification
then

friend

or

IFF, which means
you do a double check on it, all
jn one little box. Actually at' the
present time that equipmp^t costs
somewhere
around $40 000
and
it

is

sjze

to get it'down in
it down in price.

job

our

and

get

part of it is because

know how

We

we

munications for aircraft.
building

be

pen

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jets,

fire

facilities

defense

of

devoted

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our

to

security, and part

d°Wn the MI°S' ln K°rea; A"d
we .are buildinS the navigation

thereare

^is electronic side, has stayed

,

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built,
in

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and

that

We

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reasons.

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And I

was

being given credit for knocking

the research and development heart of this group, and our work

Members Hew Yor\

the

control

which

public has made the decision,

our

com-

We hap-

™

end of it.

Carl M.

have the

building

are

on

three

where part of

and

foe,

return

are

an economy

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given problems such as Dougias gave us not j0ng ago of how
are

that

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test-

there.

out

-

-

doing m the universities and the

for some years to come we
going to be living in a split
economy. We are going to be liv¬

labora-

laboratories.

yourselves, and I think the Ameri¬
can

at

is developing and other equipment at the present time,
and we have also built IFF.
So
companies as well.
th* Wnffmnn PnHi
The Hoffman Radio Corporation, most of this equipment we have

research laboratories of the

serv-

have

jng

our

company

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are

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on

that

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of about 150

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deal of research

development

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cutbacks.

no

fact,

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a

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inf jhat was going on m the and it has

of

aircraft industry

industry

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up

have had

we

matter

a

iocated

processes.

*hat the ,allocation
is

electronics for Vultaire

applications

types

Fortunately
our
company
is
right in the heart of the

of

modern

over

all

on

now are greater than when we
started in January of this year

,

that

500

engineers
of radar,
communications,
guided
missiles, etc., and I might also

,

companies

control

same

counts.

has grown in that
division to the extent

have

we

add that

.

in-

three

all

on

sonar,

fact, I think ploding a shell's warhead at the
of you know that, in many right time now will find uses in
there is more money spent computors and other various elec-

a

Con¬

Security Traders
Association, Sun Valley, Idaho, Sept. 16,
1953.

a

that doesn't have electronics in it

of them for

♦Stenographic

on

for

so

this

battle16 because'

industry today is em¬
than three-quarters
people.

cases,

in-

so

a

electron.

security

anything

the

million people employed

that

working

fact, the in- budget.

grown

been
even

more

million

a

some

rather

is

matter of

„

ploying

and

electronic

electronics

ovinoc

of

many

matter

ever

an

And

contribute

company

particular

tronics, basically, is the control all of the various uses.
are competely new products and
of the electron, and the harnessing
When you are fighting for your render a new service. As an exof electrons for millions of uses, security in a free country against ample, here is one of them. This
Actually, before the war, the radio a slave nation, you can only do is really the Dick Tracy age,
industry was the electronic in- it best, and you can only maintain This (illustrating) is a complete
dustry, because our vacuum tube your security best, by being strong transmitter and receiver. It is the
was being used for entertainment,
through technical research and same size as a package of king
communications and other things, doing a better job at the technical size cigarettes and this device will
But during World War II, with level with superior weapons, be- transmit
the signal and receive
the advent of radar—and as many cause that is one thing the agres- a signal, and you can communiof
you
people know, historians sor understands. And I think it is cate back and forth with this
have given radar credit for sav- wel* that we
are committed to equipment over a flat terrain
ing
Britain
and
perhaps
»is such a program because we were, for about four and a half miles.
country—we got into many new peiore iLorea, reiaxea ana ignor1S used for sea rescue work,

jeeps,

economy.

I don't think many

that

Mao-iVai Wnni"
Magical
Word

Electronics

Electronics

of

and

the

.

will play
creasing role in it.

dustry is talking to you and point- tronics than
ing out some of these things.
frame or the

do.

you

Impact
I

do give advice,

you

from

.

.

As

So perhaps it is significant
this meeting is being held

the securities

television

equipment.

and

omy

That is the A. T. & T.

people are very
close to the consuming public in¬
you

Our

As

of

could

we

out

worked

to

rapid growth in television stations. Predicts early color

a

products.

consumer

thought

something to the security of our
country. Fortunately it has

therapeutics and
Refers

and

our

we

television, without loss through rendering obsolete the consumers' investment

days.

could

we

help iron out the seasonal
valleys that we have

peaks

play important roles.

"a seasonal business9' and foresees great increase in

as

sales because of

apprehen¬

these

Mr. Hoffman

equipment and technique.

a

certain

There

now

Relates social advantages of television and its contribution to

ad.

amount

as

age,

in

the
that

There

h. l. hohman

electronic and atomic

an

points out the various fields in which electronics

par¬

economy

of

living in

we are now

econ¬

omy,

lies

Asserting

thought that

we

would

in the nation's

overall

things, and

cause

keep abreast of the technical de¬
velopments better. We also felt it

Corporation

important position

very

a

Billion Dollar Infant

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By H. L. HOFFMAN *

Aires, Argentina

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Thursday, October 8, 1953

Sources of America's Strength
I know I shouldn't
say this, but
must confess it. I
happen to be

I

economist

an

out

in

the

by

trade.

work

I

that

By^DR.

HARRY

L.

DILLIN*

started

free

yours,

i

■

trying to man¬
age
accounts,

After

and have

in commenting on our fear of communism, points out

tinued
these
even

con¬

during

as

came

here

apathy is

to

over

to

speak

you

on

curities
the

and

from

of

But

decided

our

1*

Harry L. Dillin

the two first words that

the

registration

cards,

are

w

mist for
lor wnat
what it mav
may

be
oe

'pr»nnn

worth
to
w
.

It

like

seems

traveling

was

of

yesterday since I
and studying the

Hitler.

I

remember

how his young people, who would
stand and give their salute, would

perpetrate all
their

upon

race,

if

kinds

lellow

their

*alth

of

atrocities
it

men

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take.

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historical

institutional
between

we

do

believe

in

us

some-

were

and
j

inter-

was

economics

economics.

'Stenographic transcript of

a

Sun

Valley,

Idaho,

Sept.

I

will.

We

traveled

and

started

from

Babylonian
civilization
Persian civilization, the

the

the

to

Grecian,

the Turks the Athenians, the
Roman
civilization,
and
many
others, and as I traveled there
kept rinSing through my ears the
fact that America is now carrying
the aeSis of Western civilization,
How well and how long we do it
at

in

thig

no small measure upon
convention.
.
...

U. S. Is Frustrated
I

recognize that

Iear °I

country is

my

It is filled with fear,

Communists, as we see
jumping from coun-

talk by try to country.

19,

1953.

of them.
within first.
a

one

They 'fell

from

free

people

have

hard

labor.

four

stood

undoubtedly,

kept

echoing

through

my

^

rising

and

But

I followed

as

memory

fear of the encroachment of the
Communists as to neglect the necessity of being objective about
which

live."

we

attention to them. But there stood history. It
a

by

man

and

gave

the name of Pericles
his name to that great

the golden age of Greece,
The golden age of Pericles supposedly the first evidence of an
age,

attempt at a democratic philosophy of life! He looked out, just
as
we
can
look out today, and
saw
the
Persians,
his
enemy,
jumping from island to island, as
we

see

the

Communists

today

If

will not be because of

fjued up with

.

_

0

,

But

we-

fear inside

a

,,

,

then

he

.

closed

as
.

his

o{ those eyes for a moment and he thought
civilizations, of his people, and he said, "I hive

as

fell,

civilizations grew.
moved ever

they

Westward. May I ask you who and
what is to to the West of our pres-

Canadian
at

Stock

Exchanges

we

of

ways

fact

there

over

that

did

as

fore¬

the

on

shores

Old

World, and as they,
Mayflower Compact,
upon the bleak shores of

landed
New

England, they
way of life.

back

choosing
think

were

new

a

peoples

our

their

If

you

life, and think of
country and the
other
countries, you
recognize
there is many a time when you
choose to do something. And then
over

your

history of

then

our

the

comes

that

use

chosen.

You

period in which

which

have
and
only human,

choose,

because

there

we

comes

you

you use,

are

time

a

when

you

abuse.

And

fourth

thought?" You choose, you
abuse, and then before

"Yes, he is
trying to be poetical. What is the
use,

you

say,

you

know

you

I

it,

have

lose.

you

lose

it.

and

I

And I

about

lose

not

am

talking to

but

about

you

the

wear

the

of

and

yours

America

America

is

our

my

time

adolescence.

and

you

of

I

feel

get

up

In

that

we

we

have

to do it before breakfast

tomorrow.

and

We

must

take

the

the

learn

long

riods,

four

great

privileges

for

ordained. I

was

are
going to
saying that you

we

am

be

all

objective and face

reality,

else

do

we

them.

The
I

Great Things in America

want

riedly
think
of

are

the

hope

of

pe¬

hur¬

things that

things which
be

I

I

think

and

are

the

greater

things which we have been abus¬
ing. The first thing I think of is
out

of

the

words

years,

have

desire,

I

of

your

"Security."

American

people,

think,

for

own

America,
in recent

developed

great

a

security.

I

have heard people here and there
and

yonder

speaking

security that

great

rather

the

great in America. Some

may

zation.

revolutions,

list

to

some

view

As I look back
upon the world,
four

in

and

Four Great Revolutions

been

I

must

Association,

history as we are writing
history of the long tomorrows.

have

saying
But

from

of

there

great

nation

tomor-

row's tomorrow that you and I are
making today. One of the probjerns

the

our

not

am

a

of

which

them

rates

Information supplied
regarding

with

now?

sons

regular commission

which

certain

the

note

the

of

ent civilization? Who is to
the mantle a few years from

to the maturity of our times. I
should like to draw upon the les¬

on

in

of

those

some

and

rose

history
Orders Executed

have

the fact that

to

in the United States

slavery

feeling that we who
have chosen loftily and have used
well have, in modern
times, been
living in a period of abuse of

have to do it tonight, or

Security Dealers located

tried to

we

peoples without, but
because of the apathy and indifference of our peoples from within.
I also like to call attention to

armament of

jumping from country to country, tomorrow,
jje

periods

together,

Is it possible today for anyone
on a hill or in Sun Valley
there
and say, "Let us not be so conyou
cerned and so imbued with the

to stand

speech, as men have stood through our civilization falls. I have a feelfhe ages. Some of them haven't ing it will fall just like all of the
been heard, or we have paid no other 15 recorded civilizations of

footsteps

falling

_

Apathy Our Greatest Danger

in

And then

the
you

choosing

We

enemy out

~

re¬

living.

the

...

So

great

were

there."

looking out upon the devastation
of time and of the last war, and

there

our

from

people

get

for the devices of

of

Industrial

our own

Revolution, in which

have got to do a job
today because
maybe tomorrow won't come. We

Service for

remember

you

things for themselves.

coming down
through
the corridors of time, the fart that
recorded, the Garden of Eden, if a man had stood there and made a the times

°r;h, NatroUt'Lcuri.?7™der,0r57„c™ a?""® in the
tion,

to do

supersti¬

Revolutions, when we
freeing people politically
self-expression and the dig¬

for

the Security Traders of America.'/

as

from

freedom

nity of the human soul.

beyond ourselves

gone

study

communism
^

Contends, however, that

have

For a little while I stood there
along under the Parthenon on the
along Acropolis,
where some of you

to

Tigris and the Euphrates, which was supposed to
bave been the
civiiization

frustrated.

that

we

period
when
we

were

liberties and eliminate communism in places of high

the

but down deep inside of

let

wanted

Russia

in

us

Commu.ists
I

Curtain

•

say

that

people
brought

and

people.

American

a

Decries America playing Santa Claus, but advocates training

the Arabs and follow

the beU

America,
need not consciously hold
up our
hands and say that sort of thing,
we,

our

of the countries

some

see

placeg ^

aboiR

us

think

Says

have developed

we

thing. What is it? That is what I there came to me the realization a graver concern for the apathy,
want to talk to you about.
that not one of those major 15 or the indifference, the sense of frusIn order to prepare myself for 16 civilizations ever fell because tration, the fears the corruptions
creative writing ! went over of an outside military force.
Not of my people within than I have

fhic

I

people,

the

great

Reformation,

the

fathers

Hnofir,,?
fK^^oo
riocii in
<«t
u„i;
'
in
JaiJfdepends
mis S
xning ^anea democracy.
ife

protect

we

honorable

as

people

y°u

t

I

be just

on

y

activities

a

of

the

ligion and of the spirit. And you
remember the great French and

looking for security only in Washington. Asks "why shouldn't

now

responsibilities.

o^F aVl

e^h^ctnrir»ai

ri

/

as

the

tion

National

J am
^

major civilizations have

through outside military force.

danger, and holds,

anxious to get security

so

government

Urges

to

change. I am
going to talk
on

are

of

insti¬

tutions.

have been

we

se¬

point

view

greatest

our

great need for both national and individual security.

expect¬

ing

not

of

minds

remember

freed

col¬

a

lege president.
I

within and

rottenness

the

You

■

telling of his journey around the fringes of the Iron Curtain, Dr. Dillin,

fallen from

years

You know them by the
when we tried to

Renaissance,

•

is

will.

you

President, Linfield College, McMinnville, Ore.

are

We

created

God, but

the

equali¬

created

equal. We
equal in the sight of

we are created

Continued

if

about

from

comes

are

equal with

on

page

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Convention

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Number

ll

Paying Premium lor Mythical Liquidity
Few

tenets

better

are.

estab¬

By HAROLD J. KING, Ph.D.

It

notion, that
stock

securities

exchanges
liquid

traded

doubt

on

Economist

necessarily

are

more

than

casts

ones

the-

-

counter.

idea

exchange trad¬
ing, in itself,
confers

bonds

upon

a

and

meas-

ureofcon-

traded

vertibi 1 ity
which
they

course,

otherwise
n o

A

t

tors

Harold

J.

King

Of

are

change
hanced

-

stocks.

counter.

-

it

But

the investor with
sacrifice

investors

the

institutional inves¬
prohibited from buying

over

many

unlisted

can-

possess.

s

behooves

choice not

a

to

one-seventh

(more
or
less) of his potential return on the

premium (in terms of
added liquidity, altar of false liquidity. It is pru¬
whether it be real, or merely as¬ dent to pay a hundred dollars a
sumed, it is in order to subject year for the liquidity of a ten
the popular concept to analysis. thousand dollar investment, only if
Because of the ease with which the liquidity be genuine — not a
securities ordinarily can be turned figment of the imagination.
must pay a

reduced yield) for

into

Stock

exchanges

primarily
markets, geared to issues
Many investors do not feel at lib¬ in which the volume of trading is
erty to tie up funds in real estate, of significant magnitude. These
non
corporate
business enter¬ securities are inherently liquid
prises, or other media which rank because the interest in them is
relatively low on the liquidity great and widespread. However,
scale.
listing may increase their liquidity
moderately, because:
The Sources of Security Liquidity
1. It
forms

investment.

of

are

auction

-

changes their status

Stocks
on

the

other

forms

higher

lateral.

than most
investment, be¬
scale

of

relative

the

of

cause

rank

bonds

and

liquidity

ease

ties.

with

they may be transferred.
activity of an issue (the
frequency at which it changes
hands—considered in relationship
to the share and
dollar magni¬
tudes involved) furnishes a rea¬
index

sonable

of

should be considered supplement¬

on

at

50%)

(now

or

brokers

by law.

traded.

lenders

will

But

not

securities

This

many

accept

un¬

collateral.

as

Certain institutional investors

2.

excluded

are

from

unlisted

3.

Psychic prejudices for listed
(against unlisted) issues are
potent market factors.

These

factors

whether

not

or

operative,

are

the

securities

speculators in the general public.
This is not to imply that the in¬
ers"

are

"insiders"

and

"outsid¬

which

are

not

active, or
It is in this

only moderately so.
area

that

must

the

investor

cautious

guard

against paying • fcimythical liquidity. It is to the in¬
vestor in securities of moderate,
or low,
activity that the relation¬

antagonistic.

never

issues

Listing and Liquidity

itself

in

se¬

of modest activity is en¬
by the principle of fixed

Psychological Force
dealers, who usually can¬
The stock ticker is a dramatic
profitably "make markets" for
and variable
costs.
In order to listed
securities, the leading stock instrument—it stirs the imagina¬
transact the
business it is best exchanges have instituted a dealer tion. As a
reporting device, it can
suited for (the transfer of active (as contrasted from
broker) func¬ hardly be surpassed in speed and
issues), an exchange must assume tion of their own. The obligations accuracy. But it is much more
certain fixed costs. Any addition¬ entailed in this function have been than an information disseminat¬
al business it may develop (in se¬
assigned to those stock exchange ing mechanism. Its psychic pow¬
curities not so active) need cover brokers
registered as specialists er, and the implications of same,
only the variable costs pertaining in the various issues.
are
to be recognized and under¬
to
it.
Any excess should prove
Among other things, these spe¬ stood by intelligent investors.
profitable.
cialists are charged with the re¬
That price is indicative of value
V
sponsibility of contributing a de¬ in a snare which has entrapped
Commission Rates
gree of liquidity to the securities unwary
traders in all kinds of
On the point of fixed and va¬ in which
they are registered. A markets. The consumer, unwill¬
riable costs, it is of interest and specialist is
assigned to every is¬ ing or unable to familiarize him¬
significance that stock exchange sue on the Board, and this obli¬ self with the various quality as¬
counter
not

''"

•

•

commission rate schedules contain

differential for activity.

no

gation is not confined to inactive

These

stocks and bonds.

rates vary with the money value
of the transactions, and the num¬
ber of shares involved, but not

far

as

active

However, in

securities

are

so

con¬

cerned, this responsibility of spe¬
cialists

be

can

little

of

signifi¬

to activity.
The same cance. The reason for this is to be
apply to the wholesale busi¬ found in the capital requirements
ness of active issues, and the re¬
of specialists. Under a new policy
tail business of inactive ones. This (effective Dec.
17, 1953) of the
is the reason why over-the-count¬ New York Stock
Exchange "spe¬
er broker-dealers usually are not
cialists at active posts must be

rates

securities

which

are

active.

not

This is the

reason why exchange
enjoy a virtual mon¬
in the trading of inactive

specialists

opoly

securities

pects of

a product, will frequent¬
according to price alone.
willing to assume that price

ly buy
He is

of' quality, and of
seciirity investors are
subject to, and victims of, the
same psychology.
John Doe may
be holding 100 shares of a stock
indicative

is

value. Many

.

the ticker quotes at 40.

ly

he

As rapid¬

multiply, he

may get
the notion that his stock is worth
as

can

which

are

listed.1

To

$4,000, and. if he chooses, he might
liquidate it at something close to
share unit stock, and 100 shares of that figure. The correctness of his
each 10-share unit stock, in which ideas,
though, may be very de¬
they are registered."
pendent upon the activity of the
It is difficult to
cialist

who

see

chooses

how

to

a

spe¬

limit

his

profitable,
over-the-counter position in a security to 400 shares,
operations
must
ordinarily
in¬ or less
possibly 100 shares —
volve a spread of at least 5% be¬ could make much of a contribu¬
tween the dealers' acquisition and tion to the
liquidity of an issue
selling prices. Exchange broker¬ which is trading in excess of 1,000

stock
are

age

for

charges,
the

on

buying

the
and

other

hand,

disposing of

shares

course
1 Recent

adoption of the so-called Ex¬
change Distribution Plan by the leading
Exchanges has reinforced this monopolis¬
tic position of specialists, in so far as in¬
active listed securities are concerned, by
diverting blocks of such stocks from the
over-the-counter
market,
which
would
provide competition.

daily.

ligation

(The specialist's ob¬
in terms of shares—of

—

does

the days.)

not

cumulate

with

involved.

his

Too, the greater
holdings, the less likely it

is that h's conclusions

have

a

1,000

shares.

his

stock

security

traded in round

or

erroneous

is

assume

worth

on

page

case

of

whether

the

much

what

truth

extent

is

it

contains.

it

correct

odd lots.2

post
(where
10-share lots) must

in
net

liquid

assets

To
Stock

that

stock

exchange trading adds a
measure of liquidity to securities?

Stock
deavor

Although the statistics are not
conclusive, some evidence exists,

most

which

to

seems

to indicate that listed

Exchange Operations

exchanges of
to

operate

course

in

en¬

manner

a

profitable to their members.
they do not wish

For this reason,

confine

themselves

to

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Markets maintained
Stocks

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Orders executed

Utility, Corporate

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External

Internal

and

at net

Exchanges

New York

in all classes of Canadian external

and internal bond issues.

Government, Municipal,

on

Stock orders executed on the Montreal

or

Exchanges,

prices

net New York markets

or

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policy of the New
a "specialist at the
stocks are traded
have, at all times,
of $50,000."

new

York Stock Exchange
inactive

"Listing lends liquidity" is a
catch phrase.
Let's cast an ana¬ ship between iisting and liquidity
lytical eye on this saying, to see is of greatest significance.
how

it

that

$20,000,

Continued
2 Under

inactive

Most

might be for him to

definite price

determining effect in the
an

sound.

Corp., common, a rather inactive
issue, at 20. Richard Roe holds

On the other hand, his

actions may

are

The ticker has just quoted XYZ

—

in¬

For their interest volved are active. Additional con¬
siderations, however, pertain to

in nature.

of

lqty

be

markets.

derives from that of investors and

terests

or

apply to interested in, and make no contri¬ able [Italics mine] to assume a
bution to the liquidity of listed position of 400 shares of each 100not
ex¬

not
are

change
listed

amount

them is limited

which

stocks

securi¬

the

bankers

lend

restriction does

its

liquidity.
There
is only one fundamental
cause for such activity—the inter¬
est of investors and speculators.
Although stock exchange spe¬
cialists, and over - the - counter
broker-dealers, contribute to the
liquidity of securities in their re¬
spective spheres, their activities
ary

may

the

listed

on

However,

which

which
And

exchange

Generally, it is easier according

borrow

to

col¬

as

interest

to

curities

'

cash, they often are preferred

other

to

dogma, that

issues, the area in which they en¬
a
liquidity
premium
of
about joy a great natural advantage.
1% per annum over comparable They desire to supplement this
ones
which
are
not
exchange- business by dealings in securities
traded.
The investor receiving a of moderate, or low, activity. The
6% return on a listed stock, there¬ activity
of a given security of
fore, may be foregoing a 7% yield course varies from time to time.
on
a
stock
of
comparable risk The compulsion of a stock ex¬

The

stocks

on

stocks "on the average" command

that

is

eye

Cautions investors that

vertibility of issues of moderate

t ransferr e d
over

analytical

an

stocks and bonds*

compar-

able

is

interesting to note that
concerning the inclination
of specialis s
to operate in the
listing lends liquidity to
public interest (by contributing
market liquidity and orderliness
trading may reduce con¬
of price sequences)
comes
even
from stock exchange brokers not
activity.
registered as specialists. Defend¬
round
lots
(comparable to the ers of the specialist system claim
over-the-counter dealers' spread) that criticism of it usually stems
from lack of understanding of how
usually total from 1% to 4%.
it works. They do concede, though,
The Dealer Function of Specialists
that it is quite a job to see that
Apparently recognizing the fact the activities of specialists are
that the listing of an inactive is¬ properly supervised.
sue
ordinarily deprives it of the
The Stock Ticker as a
liquidity contribution of over-the-

lished in investment lore than the

Toronto,
Exchanges

Winnipeg
Vancouver

Montreal and. Canadian

y/
■

Victoria

CHRONICLE

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL

12

Thursday, October 8, 1953

John I. Rohde

George M. McCleary

Securities

Florida

Company,
St. Petersburg, Fla.

Repoit of Public Relations Committee

John R. Lewis, Inc.,

Benjamin J. McPolin
McDonald

&- Co.,

Henry Oetjen, Chairman of the Committee, reveals its principal objectives,

(1) adequate compensation for brokers

namely:

and dealers who handle

Continued

from

Seattle

Elmer Weir

J. Barth &

Cleveland

Co., San Francisco

11

page

"rights" from companies using this method of financing; and (2) the pre¬
sentation of exhibits of various unlisted

Convention.
Mr.

&

Company,

presented
tion

port
the

Urges local affiliates intensify public relations efforts.

Henry Oetjen, partner, Mc-

Ginnis

Sun

at

the

to

Chairman,

as

NSTA

Conven¬

Valley, Idaho the re¬
Committee in which

of his

acvitities and objections were

reviewed.

The

text

of

Committee's

the

It

has

indeed

pleasure to
the

of

serve

Public
the

been
as

Relations

National

several years,

tempt to obtain compensation for period of the next
brokers who handle
those

companies

"rights" from I
have

that

been

NSTA

that

certain

am

its

and

aspirations will become bet¬

many

Committee

Security
A

great

a

Traders

s s o c

i ation

the

for

year

1953.

After

my

appointment
Chairman

as

letter

a

sent

was

the

31

af¬

filiates

of

the

to

close termined by the interaction of
the books of several would be buyers and sell¬
the
stock
exchange
specialist, ers is most apt to be artificial,
there might
be, for example, and not the one most likely to
that

could

is

that

to

be

figure.

liquidated

On

financing. ter known as time goes on.
Since its inception in October,
President,
appointed a Committee to handle 1950, I have watched with great bids for only 400 shares
(100 clear the market. In the absence
this situation.
It
is
my
under¬ interest the editorial progress of at 19%, 200 at 19^, and 100 at of a ticker quotation of 30, the
19). In this example, Roe could market might be cleared at a
standing that John Hudson will the "Freeman" magazine.
using this method of
Harry Arnold, our

The "Freeman" in its issue of
give a report a little later regard¬
ing the work of this Committee. October 5th is publishing an arti¬
We therefore have no intention of cle by Dr. Lewis H. Haney de¬
Chairman of
duplicating his report at this time. voted to the necessity of sound

report follows:

Paying Premium lor
Mythical Liquidity

companies at the NSTA National

convert rapidly 400 shares for ap¬
proximately $7,775. How much he

competitive price of 33, or of 27.

could

tation of 30 can,

get for the residue, and in
time period, might be en¬

what

The introduction of

the

with

ticker quo¬

a

in itself, interfere
the

of

clearance

mar¬

capital formation as the basis of
to
all capitalism and setting forth a
have exhibits of various unlisted
summary of the serious impedi¬
companies at our National Con¬
ments thereto which need correc¬
vention. As you know by now, we
tion such as double taxation of

tirely conjectural. The setting of ket. Any such obstacle is bound
minimum capital requirements for to have
a
depressing effect on
specialists does not guarantee that trading volume, and consequently
their resources will be used to any a negative effect on the liquidity
appropriate extent. And because of the security involved.
have exhibits of two companies,
dividends, the capital gains tax, the stock is listed, Roe might find
It may be highly impractical to
namely, Hoffman Radio and Ludexcessive surtax rates, the excess it impossible to get a reasonable introduce into stock
exchange
man Corporation.
profits tax, and government inter¬ quotation from an over-the-count¬ commission rates a variable which
After writing letters to the 31
ference with industry. Similar ar¬ er dealer.
The usual services of
recognizes differences in the ac¬
affiliates outlining this program
ticles are planned to follow. One such broker
dealers
(searching tivity of listed issues. Neverthe¬
we
were, indeed, agreeably sur¬ of the earliest to follow will out¬ out
customers and/or absorbing
less, the
absence of any
such
prised to receive responses from line a new employee incentive securities into their own inven¬
variable means that over-the20 of them, and with their aid
savings plan tied in with stock tories—for their own risk) are too counter broker-dealers must be
having a Public Relations Com¬
ownership which will be highly costly, ordinarily, to permit them ruled out (for the reasons ex¬
mittee of 20 individuals who have
profitable to all our members to to maintain an interest in listed plained above) of the market for
all done a good job for the Na¬
sponsor
actively with every stocks. This, because of the low inactive listed securities. This
tional this year. These 20 men
manufacturing industry no matter stock exchange commission rates. means that any contribution
they
have been
very active
in their how
large or small. In the months
might make to the liquidity of
various territories and many have
Market Rigidities: Their Effect
immediately ahead these topics
such issues (through searching out
been able to have releases put in
On Liquidity
Our

second

objective

was

-

National

out¬

lining the ob¬
jectives of the
Public

Rela¬

tions Commit¬
tee

Henry Oetjen

and

a

re¬

that

questing

affiliate

each

appoint

this

for

year

NSTA

Committee.
Our

will be

member as part of this their local

first

objective

was

to

at-

this

If

of vital

concern

to

every

potential

its

spirit

thank

to

dents of all

also

the

mittee

have

cooperation

of

ipembers

fine

the

for

the

for

done

Presi¬

the

affiliates for their

our

whole-hearted

and

Com¬

my
work

they
Se¬

National

curity Traders Association during
this year.

M'Leod.Youno.Weir & Company

kets.

Respectively submitted,

"sellers'

prices

these

one

Henry Oetjen, Chairman
McGinnis
O.

L.

&

private wires to Montreal, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Calgary,
Boston

&

Co., New York

R.

S. Dickson &

of

Co., Inc.,

50 King Street
MONTREAL

B.

VANCOUVER

West, Toronto, Canada
WINNIPEG

LONDON

C.

CALGARY

KITCHENER

QUEBEC

NEW

Lathrop-Hawk-Herrick
Inc., Wichita

YORK

Co.,

serve

be

would

that

the

cleared.

In

un¬

Lynch, Pierce,
Beane, Louisville

interest

derives

dence

in

from

indicates

generally

yield)
per

them.

investor

pay

that

evi¬

investors

(in terms of lower

liquidity premium of 1%

a

for

annum

The

Statistical

investor

listed

who

with

concerned

securities.

is

the

definitely

liquidity

stock ticker.

If

the

ticker

mium

for

vided

they

mechanics

to

by

the

offer

execution

transaction, sellers
be

reluctant

more.

to

of the
are

are

of

securities

active

the

over-the-counter,

inactive stock is worth such

an

listed

as

they

are,

for

him

As

accept bonds,

figure, buyers stitute

Any price not de¬ even,

The

exchange,

and

markets

being

though, it is not
to

assume

of
to

the
a

moderately active is¬
inactive

stocks

premium

may

payment for

Davis & Company, Dallas

George H. Earnest
Fewel &

Co., Lbs Angeles

Kenneth Ellis &

Canadian Securities

Co.,

Phoenix, Ariz.
R.

Government

Jeremy Glas

Provincial

Glas & Co., New Orleans, La.
Member:
The Toronto




Stock

Municipal

Fred Goth

Exchange

Calgary Stock Exchange
Winnipeg Grain Exchange
Canadian Stock Market

Public Utility

Irving J. Rice & Co., Inc.,
St.

Paul

Charles Gross

American

Harry M. Sheely & Co.,

Municipal Bonds

Baltimore
Edward A. Hanifen

McCabe, Hanifen & Co., Denver
Haworth Hoch
66 KING

STREET, WEST

TORONTO
Phone:

EMpire 3-7477

McCourtney-Breckenridge

&

Co., St. Louis
James E. Jones

Courts & Co., Atlanta
Pierre
J.

(Pete) A. Kosterman

R. Williston, Bruce &
Co.,
Portland, Oreg.

Wood, Gundy & Co., Iiic.
14

Wall Street, New York 5

105 West Adams

Street, Chicago 3

and
con¬

mythical,

negative liquidity.

Fenner

Kenneth A. Ellis

that

automatically justified in

case

sues.

pro¬

ones.

James Walker Davis

J. BRADLEY STREIT

of

be

inactive listed securities,

latest

going

to

Merrill

the

securities

sellers; his holdings may be well
justi¬
other, would be buyers.
fied in paying a liquidity pre¬

much less than that

William J. Conliffe
&

meant

not

case,

the markets became

termined,"
his

Don K. Clinger
HAMILTON

created
artificial

—

Conclusions

(its market value is) 30, possibly
prudent
because a specialist has so "de¬
this is

Christopher & Co.,
Kansas City, Mo.

OTTAWA

could

to

"says"

Jack Charmley
Office

days

because of the psychological effect

all Exchanges

'

floor

counterparts

Fenner case of

Charlotte, N. C.
on

com¬

Fundamentally-, the liquidity of

as

The

A similar distortion arises in the

Pierce,
Beane, Birmingham
Lynch,

J. Murrey Atkins

Corporation, New York

NRA

rigidities

in the

Andrews, Jr.

Merrill

Head

of the

case,

able

Stock orders executed

markets."

their

COMMITTEE

DEALERS IN ALL

they can
sellers
(including
and farmers)
can

give rise to distortions known

markets

CANADIAN SECURITIES

reluctance

among

manufacturers

PUBLIC RELATIONS

Members of The Investment Dealers' Association of Canada

First

The

cause

"buyers' markets." In either

LIMITED

Vancouver and The

and/or

many

opportunity

Direct

customers

regarding
During World War II, and to a
corporate financial officer and,
peting to acquire securities for
activities.
extent
more
recently, their own
naturally, to everyone engaged in lesser
inventories) cannot be
continues over a the investment business.
Americans have seen how ceiling
enjoyed by the holders of same.
prices can adversely affect mar¬
Again, I would like to take this

newspapers

and

or

Convention

COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

THE

Number

13

Which Investment Fund to
A

good

about

deal

the

written

been

has

relative

advantages

By HOMER FAHRNER

of

Maintaining that quality of management is

to

seems

items, Mr. Fahrner offers

hinge around
the

sales

and

load

though

with Dow Jones Average;

that

While
true

varies

from

nothing for
funds

if it has

a

it

to

most

Fahrner

Homer

may consume as

items

income,

alone

from

least

done

these

should

deter

not

buying into
fund. >

expense
one

soundly

a

On

the

done
it

that

the

purchase

of its shares would be difficult to

justify.

Other Funds
Let

But

how

purchaser
soundly

the

prospective
when a fund is

can

know

managed?

the

Perhaps

discussions

current

reason

are

us

found
are

1949,

which

well

as

vidual

transactions

to

how

one

the

test

can

approach

some

made.

For

time past one financial mag¬

azine

has

published quarterly the

net asset

annual

dends
of

be

can

But

for

the

values and

previous

substantial

a

10

number

charted

paper,

the

comparative

the

different

pective

see

the

of

at

purchaser

Every

might

A

management

plished
cycle.
bear

what

by

pros-

do

just

over

bottom

market
market

lows.

Next
bull

it

to

1942

see

what

to

performed

asset

for

dends),

with

the

to

is,

1949

top.

from

capital

next

it has done

bull

-

early

1953

holdings

held

in

in

common

less

to

1949

than

(that is,

hjalf

the

of

made

its

fund

money.

securities

some¬

unreason¬

will

management.

profits

the

in

Plan

such

take

bull
Formula

is

think

same

foregoing

asking too much of investment

management,
that

let

good

any

remind

me

you

investment-timing
accom¬

profits

Percentage in Common Stocks
But you can find out what per¬

of

centage

fund

any

In

bear

of

the

Obviously,

the

lows,

bull

of

stocks

common

market

with

as

market

1942, for example, after

fund

pected
its

of

From

might

to

1942

vanced

to

Then,
mid

-

common

some

in the

to

much

1946,

75%

stocks

increase,
reversal

good

That is,

probably
25%

1946,

the

the
a

a

period

ket,

as

mands

fund's management is

there should be little

tal-gains
market

bear
be

of

is

dividends

replace

lower

a

And

If

or

the

its toes,

on

while

there

well!

these

prices

to

as

its

of

Finally,

falling

the

when

major

cheap

only slight capital-gains divi¬

see

bull

the

market.

early
But

phases
in

of

the

three

pared

nancial

at

be

a

final

dear.
if

are

sell

them

the

fund

sold

shares

ket

1950-51,

in

on

has

done

Third,
due to

success

in

Rights

•

-

Scrip

-

whether

prices

phase

And

high?

If

it

each

of

those

six

holdings
mar¬

it

STREET

uniformly

"yes,"

not hesitate to

loading
fee.

You may

ing

prudent
your

or

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then

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each

buy into the fund,

resting easy that
and

the

Reorganization Securities
STREET

of

buy because of the

charge

WHITEHALL

BOSTON

pay

sixth, does it

Warrants

FEDERAL

it

low and sell them when

are

are

they

whether

final

they

intrinsically
when

the

market?

a

on

did

per¬

prices

buy stocks when their individual

ris¬

a

Fifth,

DISTRIBUTORS

LIBERTY

uniformly

capital-gains dividends

■

75

a

when

ESTABLISHED 1869

PINE

fi¬

a

stocks

high?

during
bull

man¬

Goldman, Sachs

30
....

as

its

correspondingly small

centage

NEW YORK

UNDERWRITERS

well

stocks when prices were low
a

have

year

as

was

per¬

handsome

its

it

stock-

at

per¬

com¬

were

the rising
or

the

large

and

panicky

any

For instance, you might

of rayon

with

any

com¬

centage of its investments in
mon

ex¬

which "follows the

stocks

and

First, has it

Fourth, did it have

de¬

Spll High

or

have six methods

favorably

Dow-Jones?

withdrawing
may

whether the

market,

we

testing the management of

balanced fund.

mar¬

meet the

own

one

for

man¬

-

when

cheap.

are

by

stocks.

follow¬

was

buying

very

portfolio

it

management

final good performance of its holdings?

the

ing market and selling only

are

in

of

it

Six Methods Listed

in

stocks

in

who

see

agement is

should

dends

the

rule

Here, then,

capi¬ dares to buck the trend and buy

no

a

stocks

cash posi¬

dividends crowd" by buying only on

experiencing

market.

fund

a

the

phase of each Second,

last

shareholders

compare

time.

of

contained

common

after

over

dividends

that

these

as

substantial formance of other balanced funds?

very

Buy Low;

capital-gains

shares

the portfolio

have

in

examine

in

its

the other hand,

on

ad¬

measured

as

would \ probably
a

ex¬

regular

with

such

ing

realized.

stage of the succeeding bear

Dividends
Another approach is to

If,

bought

stocks.

Considering this

substantial

less than

been

than

more

in

130%,

Dow-Jones.

would

have

have

funds

dictated

divi¬

in

portfolio

five-year decline in Dow-Jones,

a

the

1946

al¬

total

was

the

near

the

year

are

market, to be in

tion

the

Ply¬

S.

two-year decline in share

a

prices.

their
stockholders, in the form of capi¬
tal-gains dividends, substantially
all profits made on the sale of

Obviously the smart management

you

U.

or

investment funds pay out to

able expectation of sound prudent

Lest

Zinc,

had cash to invest and

regular

the

exceed

folio) would not be

the formula-plan would have

was

to

expected

which

an

during the first half of 1953.

indicates

dividends perhaps in the ratio of
four to one. This is true because

thing less than 30% of total port¬

the

agement

(after

gains

Dow-Jones Industrials.

stock

to

of the quarterly
reports to stockholders will reveal
this important information.

How

the

record

reduction

A

analysis

Compare its bond ratio.

performance

lowing

one

That

lows

top to the 1953 top?
net

be

market

the

bottom?

top

it

exceedingly well,.or

tops.

accom¬

complete

a

judge it from

has

has

What has it done from

bear

from

also

may

a

common

a

management

of

Dow-Jones

it

least

bull market, the capi¬
dividends may well be

stage of
tal-gains

one

advance of 80% in Dow-

an

Jersey

wood

If it sold these shares, it was fol¬

had another bull market, lead¬

Jones.

carefully into the indi¬

compared
With

to

Steel, Masonite, Parke Davis,

lowing the crowd and liquidating

might

arrive by a few fortuitous
investments
which
turned
out

glance

a

that before he buys into any fund.

judged

1946

You

next?

it

tailed

performance

funds.

Comparision

done

semi-logarithmic

on

could

one

have

1949

Abbott

as

generally low and sales at

consistently wise plished this or even a better result. pected to liquidate in
divi¬ throughout the years?
How can
bear market.
you
tell?
Ordinary vs. Capital-Gain
Probably only a de¬
years

larger funds. Now if these figures
were

What

see

Did

there

from

as

stick

by which

have

and

From

at

in

stocks

Archer-Daniels, In¬

advantage of

Dow-Jones from 1942

examine

1953.

Reports
you

funds,

several,

better than
to

that

assume

several

confined to expenses is that there
is no commonly accepted yard¬

managerial ability of a fund.

.

Stockholders'

find

commitment

stocks.

that

Examine

to

Here

such

bcught

it

New

after

decline.

expect

60%

Dow-Jones, then ing to

as

seem

market

might

we

managed

Comparision With

stock

hand, if it has not

well

as

a

as

would have
the
investor.

for

other

would

well

as

policy

accomplished

overhead
much as 25% of

management

ordinary

at

buy-and-hold

others,
the

outperformed Dow-Jones,
that
the
management

shows

has

around 9% for

and

to take

high prices.

the

load

few

land

is

it

that

sales

an

(5) timing of capital gains

later stages of bull markets, and (6) purchases at

See

instance,

Laboratories,

(3) consistency of profits; (4) intelligence of shifts

worthy of

consideration.

per¬

dis¬

a

for

sold

or

(1) comparison with

substantial

top level prices.

at

from

whether,

expense

funds; (2) comparison of fund's long-term results

between equities and bonds;

all which

were

was

as

important than

more

criteria:

as management

formance of other balanced

annual

overhead,

unload

to

count

Recently, most
it

waited until the first half of 1953,

Registered Investment Adviser, Corning, Calif.

the several different
managed
balanced - type investment funds.
of

Buy?

a

sound

guard¬

14

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

NSTA

Report of Publicity Committee
In brief statement, John F.
mentions

work

done

McLaughlin,

Chairman of Publicity Committee,

as

by local affiliate and by

Resolution introduced by William J. Burke, Jr., of May &
Gannon, Inc., Boston, Chairman of Legislative Committee,
urges Congress "to eliminate or materially alleviate the burden
of the capital gains tax and the double taxation of
corporate

publications used in covering national and local activities of the NASD
John
F.
McLaughlin, of Mc¬
Laughlin, Reuss & Co., New York,

Chairman

of

Committee,

the

in

NSTA

Publicity

brief

statement

a

made at the

meeting of the Asso¬
ciation at Sun Valley, Idaho, de¬
livered

the

Text of

is

committee's

During

officers

both

local

ar.d

national

association

our

sections

periodicals

report.

the Committee's report

well

as

the

as

of

in

news

the

financial

throughout the

the

fiscal

past

year

oificers

Edgar A. Christian

coun¬

Francis Wyman

Stern

and

Bros.

Robert M.

PUBLICITY COMMITTEE
John F. McLaughlin, Chairman

At

Janney & Co., Philadelphia

try.

of

association, it is my pleasure
report that particularly the

nakon's economy.

Houston

and

newspapers

&

Co., Kansas City

Saunders

M. A. Saunders &

Co., Memphis

Ray G. Martin

McLaughlin, Reuss & Co.,

Temple Securities Corp.,

New Yoik

Nashville

secretaries (as
listed

below)

all

of

of

Charles

W.

our

affiliated

Merrill

members
used

were

tee

to

&

of

of

Howard

activities

the

our

n

Wells

Lynch, Pierce,
Beane, Phoenix

&

P.

Fenner

Jaquith,

tional associa¬

tion
John F.

as

McLaughlin

news

fellow members.

our

Baltimore

of

John

tions

the

with

usual

particular
fine

mention
of

coverage

to

The

Martin J. Long

First Cleveland

icle

the

and

"Investment

Dealers

Digest."

Special

mention

noted

the

coverage

New

to

York

Journal,"

iner,"

"Plain

San

Francisco

Angeles

"News,"

Dealer,"

"Oregonian,"
Kansas

also

is

of the

the

"S t

a

and

covering
national

the

B.

r,"

Boston

doings

members.




of

local

Brown

Los

United

Angeles

C. D'Amico
Witter

&

Co.,

Portland,

S.

Carrison

Co., St. Louis

Securities

Pierce-Carrison Corp.,

C. Mahoney

Mahoney & Co.,

Minneapolis

Jacksonville

with an aggregate membership
Security Traders throughout the

groups

individual

States; and
the

membership

of

National

Security

Traders Association, Inc., through its
daily contact with
the American
investing public, is continuously aware
of the

thinking of such public; and
on such contact, the membership
Security Traders Association, Inc., has

concluded that the proven inequities of the
capital gains
tax and the double taxation of
corporate dividends have
so

Corp.,

Charlotte

C. D.

4,100

of the National

Abernethy

Interstate

Burke

WHEREAS, based

Paul Brown &

Jos.

George

stated,

was

of the Resolution folloius:

WHEREAS,

Watkins, Jr.

Reporter, Inc.,

it

WHEREAS, National Security Traders Association,
Inc., is an organization comprised of thirty-one affiliated
of

Walter A. Beckers

Bond

divi¬

corporate

seriously discouraging the invest¬
capital and thus con¬
stitute a barrier to "the
perpetuation
and future growth of the American
economy." The resolution v/as intro¬
duced by the National
Security Traders
Association Legislative Committee,
William J.
whose Chairman is William J.
Burke,
Jr., of May & Gannon, Boston, Massachusetts.

Security Trader

Fraser

Dallas
H.

"Times,"

G.

Dean

R.

of

levies,

ment of needed

The Text

P.

Co., Boston

Smith

Texas

taxation
These

Oregon

Portland

Seattle

City

R.

Williston, Bruce & Co.,

Fitzgerald & Co., New York

Newman

A.

double

dends.

Stern, Frank, Meyer & Fox,

Neil

Stubbs, Smith & Lombardo,
Birmingham

Cleveland

"Globe," etc., who have cooperated
in

Miles

"E}&am-

"Times,"

F.

rially alleviate the inequitable burdens
imposed by the capital gains tax and

Alfred F. Tisch

Corp., Cleveland

J. Arthur Warner &

"Times," "Wall Street

Los

Cleveland

fine

Leo

Union

Baker, Simonds & Co., Detroit

Pollick

Richard F. Wellinghoff
C. J. Devine & Co., Cincinnati

Commercial and Financial Chron¬

R.

James

Swift, Henke & Co., Chicago

Excellent coverage was given in
newspapers and financial publica¬

P.

Twentieth

Annual Convention, held at Sun
Valley, Idaho, the National Security Traders Association
adopted unanimously a resolution call¬
ing up Congress to eliminate or mate¬

Seattle

Harry M. Sheely & Co.,

dissemi¬

nate

interest to

well

as

to

&

Langton

William

David H. Gilbert

j

Bank

Co., San Francisco

Richard
J.

&

Fargo

Trust

Carroll

Carroll, Kirchner
Inc., Denver

a-

Moir

Maury J. Kessler

Merrill

assure

coverage

Beane, Louisville

Kees

Chaplin & Co., Pittsburgh

Randolph E. Soranson

national

a

Kenneth

as

commit¬

Homer

Ducournau & Kees, New Orleans

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner

its

are

C.

Heaton

Pope & Co., Syracuse

Ora M. Ferguson

regional

your

T.

N.

dividends." Action deenrd essential in the best interests of the

Underwood, Neuhaus & Co.,

of

Respectfully submitted,

your

Philip R. Neuhaus

getting

follows:

as

to

The

secretaries of your local affiliates
have
been
successful
in

Urges End of Capital Gains

Tax and Double Dividend Taxation

and financial

newspapers

Thursday, October 8, 1853

seriously discouraged the investment of needed capi¬
to impair the perpetua¬

tal in the American
economy as
tion and future
growth of such

economy;

and

WHEREAS, it is therefore, the opinion of the member¬
ship of the National Security Traders Association, Inc.,
that

Don K. Clinger

Roy W. Hancock

Hancock-Blackstock

&

Co.,

Atlanta

Lathrop-Hawk-Herrick,
Wichita

the national
economy can best be served by the
complete elimination of, or the material alleviation of
the inequitable burdens
imposed by the capital gains
tax and double taxation of
corporate dividends;

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the
membership of the National Security Traders Associa¬
tion, Inc., at this, their twentieth Annual Convention
at

Sun

Valley, Idaho, September 19, 1953, do hereby
Congress to eliminate or materially alle¬
the burden of the
capital gains tax and the double

memorialize
viate

taxation

of

corporate dividends for the reason above
reasons heretofore submitted to

stated and for the
on

you

this

subject by the Investment Bankers Association
of America, New York Stock
Exchange, and many other
organizations throughout the nation.

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&

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Convention Number

Continued

from

That

9

page

lens

story to

for

the

three of

next

four

Television's

Social

So

it.

had

I think that tele¬
vision, of course, is the most dra¬

our industry, and I think
certainly the phase the ladies here
will be most interested in.
They
say
that Henry Ford
took the

American

small

the

family out of the home.

the
I

has

people

brought

back

companies have grown into
sizable

with

and

corporate structures
personnel, and

sizable

very

into

home.

they have exhibited very good
management. I say we should not

think television

is interesting
viewpoints. I think it fear growth. We should determine
is interesting that television could how to utilize it and harness it
happen. I don't know if you have and how to help it.
ever
In this connection, I should like
stopped to think" about it,
from several

but

television

dollar

industry

compared

dustry

to

in

taking

in

industry

years,

automobile

ten

as

in¬

to refer to Father

President
in

Notre

of

I

Dame.

they were dis¬
sponsorship and the

and it cussing the
subsidy. telecasting of football games, and
competitive Father Cavenaugh made this re¬

years,

mark.

He

You
can't think
of
might as well try to go out and
the 20th Century Limited
mony to the health of our econ¬ stop
omy and the health of our free with your bare hands as to try to
enterprise system that something stop television. Our problem is
new and dramatic, such as
tele¬ not to try to stop it. Our problem
vision, could be introduced in this is to try to think of the right way
postwar period and become such to harness it." And I think that
a
strong factor, economically, po¬ is a challenge to everybody in the
country, and 1
any
better testi¬

our

said,

this

on

Coast, and when

we

"Gentlemen.

tube

Cal

to

charted,

that

Tech

and

color

sent

paratively
the

face

limited

of

burden

ours

an

can

time,

in

and

72%

average

during

grow

that

tax

period,

that will do

emerge as a company

$50 million worth of business this
And

year.

think

I

it

is

chal¬

a

lenge to

us people who are grow¬
little bit grayer to fight
some of the things that are threat¬
ening the possibility of its con¬
tinuing to happen.

ing

a

West
line

Now,

television has

mendous

impact.

It

It has become
in

politics,
thing else.
Television

a

had

has

tremendous factor

in

tre¬

a

become

the home.

tremendous factor

socially

was

and

every¬

fast, and

grown

sometimes

people have a fear of
something that is growing fast.
They say it has grown too fast.
But I would like to say quite def¬
initely that it has not grown too

fast.

real

that

Most of the people in the tele¬

the

old

furniture, and with

a

set

different.

was

"Easy
Now

if

of
hope

you

any

I

that

how

the

art

enough,

sure

spectrum

was

the

way

up

caused

the

eye

and caused eye
went

to

to work overtime

fatigue.
work

and

got

one

glass companies that built
filter

K-2

for

and

cameras

things of that kind, and we de¬
veloped
this
easy
vision
lens.
This

lens breaks

the

blues

down,

and

brings the yellows, greens and
reds up, and eliminates eye fa¬
tigue. As a matter of fact, every
year

for six and one-half years we

have

run

an

come

vision

every

out the

lens

clinic

eye

Angeles. And
sults

year

same.

gives

Effect

posed
The

in

important

picture.

there

will

be

be

great deal of expansion.
Seasonal

I

think

a

vision
You

the

re¬

The easy

20%

better

of

Korea

first

question

had

cutback

on

of

military

the electronics in¬

dustry

and

particular

pany?

I have covered

our

our

com¬

com¬

but I think one of the more
important things is that it will
separate the non-efficient pro¬
pany,

from

the

efficient

this

be

air.

That

outlook

for

manufacturing

the

immediate

and

It

of

thing.

mean?

What

Well,
is

seasonal

the

that

does

first

it

It

At

the

first

the

a

about

April

15

there

Starting

is

a

lot

of

forcing of the market to keep the
production

About

up.

the

now

market begins to pick up, and we
do about 45 to 60% of our business
at that

particular time. So during
spring and summer months,

the

usually get

you

views
fall

of

pessimistic

some

our

industry, and then
along and it makes

comes

everybody

that

made all these
predictions in the spring and sum¬
mer
liars
(laughter) I couldn't
think of

nicer word.

a

think this particular year we
had an abnormal year.
It seems

if every year is. But this par¬
ticular year we counted on a lot
of new stations coming on the air

as

the

spring

of

most

when

is

or

materialize.
built

However,

talking

am

now—in

going

tions

didn't

these

it

on

am

stations

the

is

I

air.

As

industry

into

nredicted.
be

a

networks

pro¬

new

The

sta¬

being,

remained

a

and

I

station

so

in

the

say

that

coming

now

matter

of

fact,

think

curately, that from here
will

sta¬

happy to
are

I

new

the air.

come

inventories

pipelines.
on

the

anticipation of

tions

the

about

had

we

up—and

on

ac¬

there

added

to

you

having

on

these

sets,

They

accustomed
think that it is

what
is

a

advantage

their

of

,

position.

appears

four stations active in their

ket,

so

lection
will

will have

you

of

have

much

(laughter) It is some¬
greenish side, but it
a chlorophyll prod¬

uct, although it does take out
of

the

our

of this

in

monopoly that was created
of these
single station

markets.

ice,

So

channels

course,

the
had

never

opportunity of getting a television
program.

Record
I

Year

think that

are

going

to

our

sales.

I

going

for the Industry

these

pretty

to

new

that

well

a

record year of

in

tion
next

our

five

sales and produc¬
I think the

years

will

those
the

our

industries

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chlorophyll

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that there will be
few major cities by this time next
year that will not have three or
now

or

definitely not

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the com¬

abuse

to.

are

treatment,

in

station.
station,

newspaper

monopoly.

any

the glass, is a different color than
you

one

one

people looked at
sets in the lobby, and
have, you might notice

lens

you

communi¬

one

have

you

like

In

daily.

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to

privilege. They stack up
five and six commercials and take

summer, and
stations failed to

inventories

our

deal

great

already have televi¬

mercial

and

those

in

sets.

I

in

television

Those

healthy.

level, a third
Ojf the year's business is done in
months.

to

sets,

our

families

new

country only have

And

it

always has

retail

six

of

ties out of the 62 communities

been, and it probably always will
be.

the

on

great deal

a

provides

means "a

our

it

is

there

year

sion service, because 40

all

thing

business

our

business.

it

people who

you

lot of statistics and all that

a

antici¬

stations

sales

million

10

vision

tele¬

industry.

sales,

of

Now

125.
are

people never had
television service before, and that
brings a big new market for tele¬

inter¬

the

tnere

the end

next

means

because

concerned

freeze

At

were

500

over

America.

the most

people "see

sort

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is:

of

one

years.

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time

and

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But there will

Business

questions

there
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will

to
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not

were

four

pated 360 before the year is out,

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little cutback.

some.

attended

orders

im¬

most

of

stations;

year

mere

measurement

very
a

to

can measure up,

confident

Los

effect has the peace in Korea and
the

the

last

almost

end

108

were

stations

new

for

the

At

in this country

freeze

a

that

allowed

par¬

give

can

of

those people who

immediate

amount

the

of

one

phases

this

means

the

is

you

in

am

our

accomplishments,

much

them

had

and

blue, and it is even worse
is a disproportionate
of other colors, and that

of

of

portant

I

and

en¬

you

our

the

Vision Lens"

and

esting

there

We

think

industry is responsible for

record

well to

ducers

may

has

outsold

companies. We have
stayed in that position. And we
have
stayed
in
that
position
through a quality product and a
hard hitting advertising and mer¬
chandising program, and cabinetry
that appealed to the ladies, that

Television's Glamour

a

had

Coast

Eastern

ticular
your

see

when

I

had

we

only in electronics biit

activities.

gineering know-how in

in the blue and way down in the
yellow, green and red. The optical
people said the eye does not focus

v

the Pacific

other

tubes

Coast, and we became,
I asked several people in the
from an employment of 800 people within a
period of about eight
to 4,000 people and a net worth months,
the leader in the sales traders group in Los Angeles to
of much less than $100,000 to a $6 out
there, which was the first give me questions that you people
million net worth, and in a com¬ time that any
company
on
the would be interested in, and they
like

company

in

causing

was

We

litically, socially and education- industry, and I know that that is viewing and no eye fatigue than
wise, strictly on a competitive the direction we are trying to go. any other process that is now on
the market.
So
much
for
easy
basis
and
without
one
cent
oi
Now, I would like to comment
vision. But I would like to have
subsidy from the government. I a little bit on our own particular
think the fact that that can hap¬ company in this television picture you drop in and see our products
in the lobby.
pen is a significant thing in itself. before I go to the questions and
Equally significant is the fact that answers. Our company started on
a

ducers not

high blue content of the

fatigue.

eye

over

was

session when

a

the

was

television

Cavenaugh, the

cent of

one

the most highly

is

billion

a

two

the

did it without
It

became

work

industry—were

dustry, and that was one
most rugged (and still is)

matic of

television

to

the

advantage of
fluorescent
lighting

the Pacific

on

It

American

had

pioneering

of the
indus¬
tries in the country. And it has
been quite amazing the way many
of these previously comparatively

the

started

we

well proven companies

industry.

Certainly

and she com¬
of television hurting her

eyes.

I

them,

pretty first had fluorescent lighting, we
before the had a great deal of difficulty with
war. They had survived the battle
eye strain caused by the high blue
of competition
in the radio in¬ in the short tube. I rather guessed

Advances

So much for the electronics end
of our

at

plained

the people
that do 95% of the business in the
television

personal

my

who

one

looked

vision industry—that is

years.

little

a

daughter
was responsible
for it. In the early days of tele¬
vision,
I
took
sets
home
and

Electronics IndustryBillion Dollar Infant
industry is pretty well scheduled

has

it, because

the

was

15

SYRACUSE

on

company,

page

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16

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Thursday, October 8, 1953

Report of Municipal Committee
At the 20th Annual
of

the

National

Association

Idaho,

of

Chicago,

in

Sun

Sept.

17,

John

Nuveen

Valley,

Edward
&

V.
Co.,

Chairman, submitted

as

the report of the

primary

market

municipal

bond

lar„p volum.
...

of

,

there

below,

wonder

little

is

the

why

After

i_i..

i»!r„„;^i

Municipal

discussed
reason

Dow

to

-

Jones

average

yield

^fpadilv from 2 42<7
steadily
from 2.42%

offerings,

on
on

Congress to increase
debt, and the FedReserve System's relaxation

of bank

reserve

During

tax

the

requirements.

first

exempt

half

of

bond

19B3,

financing

a tremendous $2,603,181,exceeding the previous high,

recorded

in

the

similar

1952, of $2,528,646,800.

neriod

Included in

year total is the highest
monthly figure in historv.

single

has

continued

May. The

in

and

the

fig-

_1, 1952, Jo 3.06% at the uresjfor Jul_y, 1953, have also

end

of

j

June,

i

and

i

i•

a

£

extent

The rapidity

1953.

e

decline

of

ceeded

those

similar month

'

of

of

the half

$650>299'589> recorded
trend
for

ex-

any
previous
leavinsr little doubt

prices

monin, jleaving nine aouoi,

has been unequaled in the last 14

Tctl Unde™^nsideratioT thafthe
full year? isLant wiU set

Recovery has been gradual

years.

since
since

the
Doint m
tne low point
in

reached

was

reaching
the

a

with

plateau

the marxet
market
tne

in

bond

this

prices

period,
were

all-time
«

high.

arious reasons have been

averages

August

at

municipal

partially

af-

lation

leading

demand for

tion's

ments

debt

lengthening

policy,

serve

System,

tionary

as

measure

an

p™pu-

Growth in

to-increased

need

for school facilities; (2) the greater

fected by the Federal Administra-

and the efforts of the Federal Re-

ad-

£ d volumeVwhTch'themost

logical™™)

2.85%-2.83% level.

During

a new

u

the

and

new

public improve-

extensions

of

existing

facilities, and (3) higher construe-

anti-infla- tion costs. The 54,000,000 vehicles

toward restrain-

on

the

ing the expansion of bank credit,

double

Similarly, contributing factors to
the
price rise of the last few

ago,

roads

the

today,

number

which

of

10

is

years

have overtaxed highways and

created

demand

a

for

new

months, have been the absence of through roads avoiding the

creased

traffic

con-

This

has

been

instru-

•

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Dealer

July, in amendment and became a law
legislation without the approval of the Gov-

Buyer"

enactment

of

by ™any State Legislatures in the
sessions just closed, authorizing
the construction or studies to be
51
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broadened toll financing of high¬
facilities

way

in

these

16

states:

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of

Alahnmn

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State, Municipal and Revenue

Bonds, Preferred and Common

Stocks

Industrial, Public Utility and

Railroad Corporations

extended toll road nroi-

or

Company Stocks

Bankers' Acceptances

self-liquidating project,

ting under

in various

Planning

ousfy

and

study

in

laws'™

enacted

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ing

are

get-

in Maine, and are
stages of preparation,

way

facilities

other

Pr<!V1"

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,

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acquisitL

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fix

to

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.

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to

tolls

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acquire

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supported parking lots
garages have
become more

Missouri have

introduced legisla-

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in Harris County and
Water Control and Improvement
r

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limited

city

and

the

indicated there is active consider¬
ation of proposals in at least 13

legislation in

many

proposals for

new

instances

bond

against

debt limit of school districts from

New York

Boston

Philadelphia




Pittsburgh

Cleveland

Also

in

the

San Francisco

State

the

Auditor has been amended to

ex¬

clude from such registration bonds

issued by the school district

con¬

by the City of St. Louis.

Washington, the House killed

bill

which

would

restrict

the

Public

of

addition,

tracked

a

the

Senate

which would

bill

side¬
have

Public Utility Districts
to put revenue bonds up for com¬
be
petitive bidding.

to

required

In

Illinois,

Revised

the

Cities

and Villages Act was amended

fees.

Bill

House

nesota(

were

two bills which

were

dated

568,

resolutions

or

defeated. One, a bill providing for

July

cigarettes

and

State

streamlining

which

provide

money,

appropriate

sewer

improve-

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Novem¬

5% to 10% of the assessed valua¬
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In

and state gasoline tax
State cigarette license

and individual
and corporate income.

In

FIRST BOSTON

at the

built up from the city's portion of

liquor, retail sales

known

The

amended

was

issues, in¬

creases in the size of old authori¬
zations to be supported
by new or
increased taxes,

Governor.

Foreign Dollar Bonds

taxes.

were

signed by the

Canadian Bonds

are

ber, 1952 election to increase the

passed laws for the

Reconstruction and Development

This

States to make bonus payments to
war
veterans.
The
tendency in

Various

Securities of the International Bank for

from

taxes.

Districts

Of paramount interest in Min- 1953, requiring that all ordinances

v.ey early this year,

^,

a

is

payable

School

vately owned generating facilities.

provement fund for guaranteeing
the redemption of special assessfund

to

Utility Districts
to acquire by condemnation pri¬

Chapter 155 of the 1953 Sessions

the

tion

right

Laws of Wyoming provide for the
creation of a revolving local im-

This

or

Missouri, the State Constitu¬

In

bonds was defeated.

bonds.

In

a

,

ment

heretofore

are

only municipalities in
Pennsylvania whose general ob¬
ligation bonds are payable from

stituted

in Colorado a bill providing for
llc
e, ?
municipal

of

on

the

now

....

,

effective

valorem

ad

that

means

ar-

tals, municipalities and school districts; Legislation was also passed
creating the Texas Turnpike Au-

tion to strengthen
existing laws or
to create new acts for the
purpose

^

General

by the Townships of the

Class

unlimited

In Texas, legislation enacted in-

P

obligations

Second

neces-

pTrtolarl/in- Refugio* County dl"a C°Unty a"d

revenue

the

of

became

and

be issued

rates

eluded amendments to various

sistent in the larger urban areas
and smaller trading centers. The
issuance of

also voted down.

Session

the

ernor

eral

^^^rhtghways'bridges!^-

completed in Oklahoma-

the

July 2, 1953. From this date gen¬

bonds to

revenue

ects currently are under construe- «cles governing the holding of
«"> in Connecticut, New Jersey, bond eMctions m counties cities
Ohio, Pennsylvama

including levies

Bank and Insurance

any

.

.

Island, and vetoed in Arkansas.

many instances is to exteffd cash
benefits to veterans of the Korean
conflict. Included in such bonus

Securities

At

Pennsylvania, but have been reProperty; to make contracts;
*cted ?" <California, Maryland,
''
Missouri, New Mexico and Rhode and t0
federal aid.
New

school

already is at the legal limit

of property) was

except offstreet parking

Washington, costfof

a'o'^consin.
Similar bills are still pending in

of

districts where

Assembly in Pennsylvania, there
was
passed a bill amending the
ernor
on
May 27, 1953, being
Second Class Township Code by
Chapter 28045, laws of Florida,
providing that Townships of this
Acts of 1953.
class, in addition to ot er taxes,
> This Revenue Bond Act of 1953
may
levy "an annual tax suffi¬
grants general powers to each cient to
pay interest on indebted¬
county and municipality including ness and
sinking fund changes."
powers to acquire and con- This bill was
signed by the Gov¬

f?the
Iowa, Kansas; Michigan;
Minnesota ^ebraska^New^amo' struct

Ai

of

construction

(namely 50% of the assessed value

early days of the Legislature, was
passed by both houses without

in

"Bond

PaA^onioif...
Government and its Instrumentalities

the

the

by

legalizing construction of such
facilities and pledging of
revenues,
both offstreet and onstreet to the

Securities of the United States

in

survey

Many State Legislatures
in 1953, particularly those in Wisconsin, Ohio, West Virginia and

Underwriter

introduced

was

a

frequent.
.

1953,"

appro¬

Ore Tax Fund, to be used for as¬

mental, according to

struct toll
■

of

The
School

priating $15,000,000 from the Iron
sistance in

in-

financing,
year.

setting up a State
Building Commission and

borrowing.

areas.

bond

early in the

other

debt

gestion of urban

causing

reached

.

factors

Weekly

inrrpncpd
increased

issues

new

,,

the

government

national

eral

both the in-

in municipal yields and the

considering

Nov.

the

during the

developments

past year have been

T*r

large

the refusal of

The text of the report follows:

revenue

met defeat

buildings for
any

The

crease

fields of municipal

Municipal Com¬

mittee.

industrial

Chairman Edward V. Vallely reports to the Convention on
developments in
the municipal bond market
during past year. Finds yields on municipal bonds
have advanced/ accompanied by a
large volume of issues. Lists broadened

Security Traders

held

on

Vallely

Convention

-

Teletype DE

7

Convention

ments,

street

the

Clerk

improvements,

for

period

or

of

the

Municipal

public inspection for

of

In Attendance at NSTA Convention

contracts, be filed

any

Office

a

o$e
week before the
ordinance is finally

resolution

that

mean

covered

the

by

award

of

Clement

Act, cannot be
made at sale time, but will have
to be delayed for a period of one
1

week

House

1953,

pany,

bonds

this

service

school

on

not

&

Com¬

>(

„fT^TrNrT

-

Los Angeles

GOR,EY, WALTER C.
Walter C. Gorey Co.

CURRIE, TREVOR*

GOSHIA, OLIVER *

J. W. Tindall &

Marshall

Atlanta

Portland, Ore.

DEPPE, RALPH C.¬

school

the
be

BECK, EDWIN L.

Commercial and Financial

in

used

Chronicle, New York

its entirety for building purposes.

Legislation

creating

bonds.

A

State

levy taxes and BENNETT, CARROL M*
case
is now
Dallas Rupe & Son, Dallas

BLUM, ERNEST E.
Brush, Slocumb & Co., Inc.

Supreme Court for the

San Francisco

BRADFORD, HUGH *

Act.

Southwestern Securities Com¬
pany,

Respectively submitted,
NATIONAL

COMMITTEE

St.

Edward V. Vallely,

Chairman

John Nuveen & Co.. Chicago
Wm. G. Carrington, Jr., Vice Chr.
Ira

Haupt & Co., New York

Securities

Corpora¬

tion, Nashville

Newman, Brown & Co., Inc.
New

Bergman

Allison-Williams

Company,

Joe

First

Company,

CAUGHLIN, EDWARD J*

Municipal

Bond

Edw. J. Caughlin & Co.

Corp., Cincinnati
Hattier,

Philadelphia

Jr.,

White, Hattier & Sanford, New

Gottron, Russell & Co.
Cleveland

Arthurs,

Lestrange

CERF, DAVID F.

Co.,

&

Ludman

B.

J.

Van

Ingen

& Co.,

Inc.,

CHANNELL, CLIFFORD K.
The First Boston

Miami

Garrett-Bromfield Co.,

Wm.

Denver

Schlicting

P.

Harper

&

Son

Strader, Taylor
Lynchburg, Va.

&

Co.,

Inc.,

Wilier

Boatmen's

National

DOYLE, LEO J.¬

Paine, Webber, Jackson &
Curtis, Boston
Co., Los Angeles

EGAN, JOHN F*
First California Company In¬

corporated, San Francisco

Blosser

&

McDowell

Detroit

F1NNEGAN, J. F*
Hannaford & Talbot
San Francisco

FORAL, WILLIAM J.
Union

Pacific

Louis

Railroad

JOLLEY, LEX*
The Robinson-Humphrey
Company, Inc., Atlanta

HAMMELL, ELMER W.*
Taylor & Co., Chicago

JOLLEY, Miss MALINDA

HARKINS, CHARLES E*
Blyth & Co., Inc.

Atlanta

San Francisco

JONES, JAMES E.
Courts

HARMET, ALFRED A*
A. A. Harmet &

DUFFY, JAMES R*
(Norman & Jimmy)

Dallas

Gardner

Co., Chicago

HASTINGS, H. RUSSELL
S. R. Livingstone, Crouse- &
Co, Detroit
HATZ, ARTHUR *
Arnhold & S. Bleichroeder,

JOHN CARL *

pany,

Inc., Denver

KIBBE, ALBERT PAYNE *

HEIMERDINGER, JOHN G*
Walter, Woody &
Heimerdinger, Cincinnati

A.

P. Kibbe &

Salt Lake

Co.

City

KING, MARTIN I.
Sutro Bros. & Co., New York

HILL, HOUSTON, Jr.*
Co.

KING, THOMAS E.

HOFFMAN, H. L.
Hoffman Radio, Los Angeles
HUDEPHOL, HARRY J*
Westheimer and Company

Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.
Chicago

KOCUREK, OLGA
Rauscher, Pierce & Co.
San Antonio

HUDSON, JOHN M*
Thayer, Baker & Co.
Philadelphia

KOERNER, STAR C*
F. S. Moseley & Co., Chicago
KOSTERMANN, PIERRE
J.

LOUIS A. GIBBS

HUNT, GEORGE V *

Laird, Bissell & Meeds

McLaughlin, Reuss & Co.

New

New York

York

Loeb, Rhoades & Co.

Cincinnati

Fort Worth

FUERBACHER,

Orleans

KEENAN, JOHN J*
Morgan & Co., Los Angeles

KENNEDY, BERNARD F*
Bosworth, Sullivan & Com¬

San Francisco

FREEAR, LANDON A*

St. Denis J. Villere & Co.
New

C. M.

FRASER, JAMES G.

Stern, Frank, Meyer & Fox
Los Angeles

Atlanta

New York

HECHT, JOHN C„ Jr.
Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.
Los Angeles

S. Strauss &

Co.,

ARTHUR J*

KELLY, EDWARD *

Inc., New York
HECHT, JOHN C.
Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.
Los Angeles

J.

&

KEEN AN,

A*

R.

Williston, Bruce & Co.
Portland, Ore.
Continued

on

page

76

Corporation

New

York

CLARKE, JOHN W* ■
John W. Clarke, Incorporated
Chicago

Bank,
CLEAVER, JAMES P.

St. Louis

Goodbody & Co., New York

Ivan W. Wing
Weeden &

DILLIN, HARRY L.
Linfield College, McMinneville,
Oreg.

St.

-

CLARK, PHILLIP J*
Amos C. Sudler & Co., Denver

Ludwell A. Strader

D.

Paine, Webber, Jackson &
Curtis, Los Angeles

Dallas

JACKSON, WINTON A*
First Southwest Company

JACQUES, JAMES F*
First Southwest Company

HAGENSIEKER, EARL
&

V>

First National Bank in Dallas

Dallas

Milwaukee

Reinholdt

McDowell

CHRISTOPHER, WILLIAM H
R. W. Pressprich & Co.

Co.,

&

Seattle

Ernest

1

JACKSON, ROY

&

New York

Ray L. Robinson

Hugh R.

Corporation

North Miami

F. Boice Miller

DIEHL, ROBERT D.

Walter, Woody &
Heimerdinger,' Cincinnati

George E. Lestrange

Pittsburgh

I

&

Jk Gregory, New York

Robert W. Baird & Co.

*

William N. Edwards & Co.

CAYNE, MORTON A*

Orleans

St. Louis

Co., Boise

Straus, Blosser
Chicago

HAACK, ROBERT W*

Edward D. Jones & Co.

Fewel

Idaho Power

ISAACS, MILTON J*

GRADY, GEORGE T.
Cincinnati Municipal

Bonner

Chicago

CARRINGTON, WILLIAM G., Jr.
Ira Haupt & Co., New York

George T. Grady

Gilbert

Company,

tion, Nashville

Southwest

Dallas

Cincinnati

&

BURKE, WILLIAM J., Jr.*
May & Gannon, Inc., Boston

Ellis

W.

York

Straus,

BURKHOLDER, H. FRANK
Equitable Securities Corpora¬

Minneapolis

New

ELDER, GEORGE J.

Orleans

BUNN, JOHN W.

Stifel, Nicolaus
Inc., St. Louis

Watling, Lerchen & Co., Detroit

ILCH, M. M*

GREGORY, WILLIAM H., Ill

Joseph McManus & Co.

EARNEST, GEORGE H.*~

BROWN, WM. PERRY

Charles C. Bechtel

Oscar M.

H

Louis

BROCHU, PETER
Allen & Company, New York

C. Herbert Pettey, Vice Chairman

Equitable

Dallas

BRITTAIN, MILTON C.
Schreck, Richter Company

MUNICIPAL

Francisco

Bond
Corporation, Cincinnati ■

Doyle, O'Connor & Co.
Chicago

of testing the validity of

purpose

this

gan Francisco

test

being prepared for presentation to
the

S™Co.

passed

Districts

Sewer

Storm

with the power to
issue

also

was

IIYETT, GLENN *
Chicago

Bronson, Mich.

Company

amount

by

San

T

Precision Tool & Die Co.

DEAN, JAMES B*

BAILEY, DAN V".
Foster &

Denver

DEDRICK, GEORGE

can

New York

CUNNINGHAM, GEORGE W.¬
George W. Cunningham & Co.
Westfield, N. J.

charged against the BATEMAN, HOMER J*
amount produced by the
school
Pacific Northwest Company
building levy. This means that the
Seattle
produced

William R. Staats & Co.

»T„

be

building tax rate

HUNTER, WELLINGTON *
Hunter Securities Corporation

GLASS, CHESTER M., Jr.

Co., Inc.

i

Geo- Eustis & Co-> Cincinnati

build-

Frank M. Cryan
New York

Inc., Atlanta
T

ing bonds issued after July 1, 1953,
will

Evans

ARNOLD, HENRY J*

/

84, dated July 13,
revised to provide that

was

A.

A™°LD> H£R*Y/"*
Gold man,^^achs & Co.

Bill

debt

CRY AN, FRANK M.

ADAMS, EDWARD R.

or

passed. Unless clarified this could

the

17

•

authorizing
in

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Number

t|

.

Co., San Francisco

♦Denotes

Mr.

and

Mrs.

a-ACwiwdiwi

We maintain

primary markets in

Public
Common

(JmcAican

Utility
Stocks

cD-eealifted

Ccnptviafum

NEW YORK

Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

Fenner & Beane
■

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THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

.

Thursday, October 8, 1953

Report of Special "Rights" Committee
At
of

the

the

20th Annual

National

Convention

Association

in Sun Valley, Idaho
Sept. 17th, John M. Hudson of

on

Phillip J. Clark reveal efforts

of the

large degree, these efforts have been fruitless.

a

"Cross-Industry Rights Committee," and

problem will be

available.

soon

that

report

P. Barry of Shields & Co.
Mr.
Barry, as most of you know, sev¬
eral years ago devised and after

life

Both

a

written

much

study

effort

had

the

so-called

"Barry

Plan,"
probably
more
commonly known as the "Shields
Plan," accepted by the industry
as

Clark

J.

ing

Sudler

&

sented their

Co.,

Denver,

joint report

Your

spe¬

cial committee to study the prob¬
lem
of
proper
compensation of
dealers
in

in

effecting

active

transactions

Mr.
and

into

gone

ing

the

the

matter

gospel

dealers

For

otherwise,

several

of

years

of

use

to

deal

to

the

large

degree

been

fruitless.

a

NASD

effort

written

their
a

efforts have had

little

early

dustry

to

do

this

with

year

Rights

cross

NSTA

of

of

and

"Cross

a

that

approach,

ASEF,
NYSE

cooperation

of

coroorate

"Cross

Industry

Committee" is headed

for

is

by

with

to

segments of

understand
NYSE

the

have

IBA,

under¬

out-of-pocket

cover

study

a

available

dent
his

study

to

the

ex¬

F.

has

been

Childs.

prepared

Vice-Presi¬

Irving Trust Co. and
associate, Miss Marjorie H.

Cruthers.
and

nanies

Mr. Childs is

consultant
in

followed

to

rate

price

by

action

study will

com-

and

has

on

rights

pressure

charts.

cover

only

the

Otherwise,
present 'a

and

NSTA

the

prem¬
cor¬

better

a

soliciting

a

Your

venture

men

major

our

get

can

their

favorable

stockholders

paying

dealers.

deal

fee

enough

period,

destruction

opinion

since

of

to

committee¬

that

their study does not cover a

value

long

substantial
takes place

registered

Co.

paid

well

as

to
as

Colorado

paid

uncompensated deals between
the initial knowledge of the of¬

Mountain

Amos

respect for their study

gible
and

in

and

recognize
the

that

"Digest"

adjustments,

on

tan¬

a

statistical

pure

approach

our

article,

contains

basis

lacking
in¬

many

tangible premises.
We recommend that the "Childs

Study" when generally available
be

widely

used

to

further

the

concept of comoensation
dealers

rights

on

Now

a

few

committee

Your

with

and

Our

the

friends

the Denver

is

member

every

ciation

of

local
our

at

area,

pattern

about

one

asso¬

industry.

^

off

off

13.8%

only

1953

with

9.4%.

the

the

On

stock

September
off

was

9.8%

COMPARATIVE
Central

Common

Low

Close

Bid

Bid

earlier tMs year,

20

same

prevailing

the

on

which

came

same

time.

Dow

21%

I8I/4

20%

+ 7.5%

—8.7%

+2.5%

Jones

52.42

Utilities
47.87

+ 2.8%

—8,7%

States

for

4

Co.

you
ever

&

Low

Close

114

96%

101

+ 1.8% —13.8%

—9.8%

and

our

advantage

you

53.88

47.87

49.82

+ 1.9%

—9.4%

—5.8%

the

and

possibilities

also

the

to

traders
mass

to

the ball, it is mak¬
big contribution to our in¬

a

"I have had
with

this

them

of

But

too

this

fingers I'll

each of

work

both
many

long

our

let

ever

of

unfavorable

seems

function of
we

lots of experiences

type
and

it

to

to

relate
to

me

know.

never

execu-

Company
Common and Preferred

25

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Telephone HAnover 2-4300
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York

Stock

Francis I.

Teletype NY 1-5
Members

New

Members




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Stock

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request

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••

Analysis

the

industry and why
slip through our

"In the State of Ohio the

further¬

here.

be

Christiana Securities

Spencer Trask & Co.

be

of work

long experience

knowledge in this field

If

cus¬

purposes.

compari¬

for

it.
a

in the next couple of
years
(maybe). This idea deals with the
appraisal of securities for estate

Average

clear to

given

to become

ernors

High

make

have

presented
another
idea to District No. 10 Committee
and it was accepted and
approved
and a
resolution will be drawn
and put before the Board of Gov¬

—5%

112

restatement

write

dustry.
"I
recently

Open

should

to

the

have grabbed

100) (No Fee PakP
from 3/10/53 to 9/8/53

52.86

STOCKS

to

t|i|v industry it must get
publicity. I know what it

ing

Common

Utilities

mind

when they become
swamped with
rights and I think the way you

at

Jones

in

compensated for the

49.82

Telephone

Cin¬

.

in

means

Average

53.88

had

reference

this idea is

the

(1 for 14 at 17%)--($.50 fee paid)
Range from 2/17/53 to 9/8/53
Bid

have

with

circulation
tom

High

Bennett & Cr

fine
article you wrote on the "Rights"
Problem and particularly the wide
you

Co.

Bid

we

excerpts ■ from letter
by Mr. Jean E. Bennett, Pres¬

"I

8,

and

TABLE
Power

our

here

ident of J. E.

the Dow Utility was off only 5.8%.

Colorado

be

to

compensated
for
In
this
connection

cinnati, Ohio.

averages

Open

members

quote
sent

On the downside Mountain States
was

in

and

rights offerings

along

a

experience with the

an

familiar
two

efforts.

July 20, 1953 and serving
point up the fact that the
Problem"

alert for every opportunity

up

was

Mountain States moved up 1.8%
with the utility average up 1.9%.

simply
"Digest" arti¬

the

Colorado

1953

the Dow down 5%.

of

"Rights

had

transactions.

8,

properly

son

yourself of

the

takes

now

of
deviating
somewhat
from the "Rights Problem" which
is only part of the overall picture

liberty

States

2.5% from February 17, 1953 with

paragraphs

supplementing
to

to

tember

This

avail

Co.,

'

Dow

to

Sudler

C.

and

interested in

to your

Hudson

Denver

favorable

be

M.

Phillip J. Clark *

of¬

an

none.

Range

it may

in¬

following
comparison
oi in so far as the economic stability
our
price action from the respective of
industry
is
concerned.
physical issuance of
registration dates to September Many writers have recently point¬
the
rights,
where
their
study
8, 1953 again proves the value ed up the passing of the specula¬
starts, as witness the recent an¬
of paying a soliciting fee to secur¬ tive market and the ascendence
nouncement
of
Pacific
Gas
&
the
so-called
investor.
This
ity dealers. Colorado moved up of
Electric. We also feel that stock¬
7.5% from the opening date to its change in the character of our
holder relations are improved and
high with the Dow Jones av¬ business is probably the principal
have a continuing effect in the
reason for the current low volume
erage up only 2.8%. At the low
after market on a
compensated
point both Colorado and the av¬ of business. In view of the lower
offering. We have a substantial
erage were off 8.7% and at Sep¬ rate of activity we all must be

fering

(1

PREFERRED

investment

The

Telegraph

you are

be

Thayer, Baker & Co.,
Philadelphia

dealers on primary
oversubscriptions bv

while

Mountain

If

the

John

fering on March 10, 1953. A so¬
liciting fee of 50 cents per share
was

best

Respectively submitted,,

Co.

Power

stock offer¬
ing with the SEC on Feb. 17, 1953,
and Mountain States Telephone &
Telegraph

the

NSTA

to

common

a

of

dustry.

Central

registered

basis of

stockholder

that

members

revitalize

will

deals.

Colorado

the

re-educating the in¬
vesting public and corporations to
the premise
that a workman is
worthy of his hire. As we do we

under¬

-

of

directed

one

non

were

the

recommend

efforts

industry.

issues

on

for

corporation.

We

on

expert

utility

cases,

offerings through
Their

an

that

porations

which

industry

of the

the

ise

cle

John

ex¬

by Eugene

all

will

report to support

A

the

be

The

the

Rights

stoVy
corporations.

shortly.

In¬
It

We
and

pense

will

IBA, NASD,
together with

ecutive, will. be fruitful
investment industry
The

than

activation

opinion

industry

members

more

the

pletion.

believe

Committee."

considered

our

the

sincerely

we

You

the

principal work
the committee is nearing com¬

of

In¬

for

industry.

dividuals, prominent in your as¬
sociation, have been active in the
and

sell

"Cross

consideration

to

distribution

members.
to

selfish interest and lack of united

have

all

are available^
Industry
Rights
Committee"
contemplates
their
work as a continuing effort. They
are
proceeding slowly and with

The

preach¬

principally

endeavors

was

"In¬

Digest" in their
1953. - Your

them

effort

these

the

20,

authorized

better

a

by

(Additional copies

has

compensation

reasons,

July

reprints

of

over

rights transactions.

on

various

published

of

should

epbrt, thinking and talent,
and

been

attend¬

One such contribution

President
of

of

have

endeavor,

vestment Dealers

Members:

period

this

article

issue

professional

to

report

President, Fellow Delegates

Much

a

their

of

and

ing concrete contributions to the
an

text

committeemen
in

work.

full
follows:

shares

ing discussion meetings and mak¬

"rights."
The

successfully plac¬

unsubscribed

through purchase
of rights by lay off during the
term of rights offerings.

pre¬
a

as

of

shares acquired

Thayer, Baker & Co., Philadel¬
phia, and Phillip J. Clark of Amos
C.

method

a

transactions.

local

a

and

sold

deal

better

a

study

a new

Find "rights" problem is

of the rights and favors to
slight degree compensated

idea must be

Discuss the "Barry

with every member of the NSTA and the whole securities

Phillip

when you return home. The

areas

Plan" of the

M. Hudson

with

solve the problem of

to

adequate and reasonable compensation for dealers in "rights" transactions.
Find, to

John

the compensation
principle
corporations in your local

ing

John M. Hudson and

Security Traders

Columbus

Convention

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL

Number
\

tor of estate

for

ers

points

will

appoints two apprais¬

each

probate
These

one.

court

ap¬

jobs

are

percent

the

of

total

they

a

idea?

appraised

since

these

appraisers

the

appointment
is

strictly

and

probate

judge.

is

It

chance to pay back

only

not

upon

obligation

look

to

furnish

values for

closed

and

what

become valueless while

in

the hands
taken

are

and

to

detail

in

orders

will

work

the

tributed in

commission

should be considered to apply
to the work of

for

not

only

are

(considered

experts

and

get paid for it? If
wrote

company

trust without

calling in

Bar Association

the
ball

them

bank or
will or a

a

a

would black¬

Right
group of Cincinnati lawyers

now a

suing the Ohio Turnpike Com¬
mission for $250,000 for fees paid
are

to Cleveland Title Insurance Com¬

for checking land titles for

pany

the

Isn't

road.

new

it

clear

how

other

professions jealously guard
and fight for what they consider
to be their function only?
"
1
"Banks

and

other

many

insti¬

tutions

are adding service charges
jobs performed for customers

for

since

and
in

there

are

commissions

is time that

"Now

have

I

48

in

increases

no

sight

for

us

states

the

and

resolution

we

laws

of

wording of

will

read

some¬

resolved

that

any

thing like this:
'Be

it

production

our

It

also

of

Securities

furnishes

the

Dealers

quotations for

purposes

securities for
will be en¬

a

fee the

equivalent,

fee

paid to

anyone

"My hope

is

becomes

kind

are

are

we

every

fearful

of

little

a

pinch-

often, and

so

of

it.

I

definitely

ahead is

program

defined

a

We
have gone through three produc¬
tion cycles.
We started in with
a production cycle for World War
II, and we started in in 1940 on
Lease

program.

built up our ca-

and

enable

will

to

us

I

here.

am

21-inch

present

Television

set

costs,

or

neighborhood of $750 to

thousand dollars.

tion.

in

is

make

to

get into

before

comment

one

we

are

happy

very

to

we,

been

customers

ne

"t oT

a

that has happened with radio and

as

munications
should
and

Commission

have

fully

Federal

the

what I
So

that

electronic

c0!2£.
iath*s .cou"tryWhat that
simply

the

FCC

Economic

we

Hypochondriacs

A

the

bring up one
before closing.
I

think the time is such that I will

that, not invite questions from the floor,

means is

approves

recom-

mendation of the industry, and

it

although I will be glad to
them later

on.

I will

would like to ask about

color

pany

appears

black

black

in

or

seen

on

your

white

and

and

white,

present set
set

you

can

or any

buy.

to

like

answer

or

to

any

the

make

answer

be available

that they will, every
program that is telecast, be it in
now

tomers.A We
have
But

questions

industry.
this

If however, in closing.

one

our

I

you
com-

would

comment,

That is there

a

the

saieg

out selling, and we
everybody else has to get
selling, and selling is a matter

out

have

are

sell

cause

new

mend to you
based

we

I

How

we

going
serv¬

think

we

do it,

can

if

Chicago),

Chairman

Committee,

tion

lowing
"W

on

our men to sell. Be¬
have had
13 years of
our young men

have gone in the services, and
they have gone into operating
lathes, they have gone into this
and that and
other things, and
they haven't gone into your busiThey haven't gone into the

sales department of so many of
businesses. And sales, for so
many dealers today, merely means

has
•,

of

custom

tion

of

color

that

we

won,

is

one

the

20th

Convention of
the

N.S.T.A.

and I
all

am

will

sure

agree

that

it

was

one

of

the

most

able

enjoy¬
and

cessful

suc¬

Con¬

have
held.

the

we
ever

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enthusi-

t i

c

Edward

because

the

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to

seem

be

of

almost

$8

billion

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p-

nirture

Now

it

appears

the

We

looking

are

newing

our

forward

sys-

cj.-

f

°

.

,

next September."

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color

system will be approved. The

of

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the highlights of the Convention,

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that

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system.

well

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pleased. This issue of the "Chron-

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eventually
a

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feel

Conven¬

conclud¬

ed

ness.

our

of

issued

telecast in color, you will receive
it in black and white, but you will
receive the entertainment content,

We

the sell¬

statement:

e

just

a s

we

training

all-out production,

do

we

is

ahead

Highly Successful

the

and

are

consumer

Edward H. Welch (Sincere & Co.,

ventions

products

we

what

on

f matter

^

economy

our

cre-

Convention Was

going to sell these

these

1S

ing front in all phases of activity.

cus-

is

matter of

a

that the

going to sell

higher living standard,
ahead

It is
:

demands,

new

challenge

commodities?
to

these

of

are

creation.

of

problem.

How

start

to

all

here for.

am

we

think

ciHy larger
Qf Detroit

city

great

have

ices?

compatible
I would like
system
of other comment

fully

a

Com¬

the

than

it

pleasure, and I enjoyed this
golf course, but basically that is

everv vear

a

If

for

the

haTe 11

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million

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that.

about

that, I wouldn't be
I appreciate the honor and

here.

CTe^^roducrgoods bTfore6

could

good

the

convince

if

has

something to the industry, television, is going to happen in
industry has been able black and white versus color.

tribute
and

that

have been able to

business

con¬

color, and that is this: That we

company,

Radio

production

a

negli^ble. beraaselifter

all the time television has
been creating this new market,
and I think that the same pattern

of the ramifications

some

peak.

now

hope to sell you an

dodging

no

weren't

capacity, that is modern, that is
terrific »nd also can produce goods

one

And I think the

fht hit'^'markirwilf nraf
ticaUy be

have

We

I

interest in Hoffman Radio.

done as far as equipment for tele- that. time. Then we came up to
casting color itself. I think we Korea, and it was decided that we
probably will see small-sized pic- would have a military economy
ture tubes about half the size of on top of the civilian economy, so

anything that has been pur¬
chased up to this time will not be

the appointed appraisers.'

ever

I think

cutting the price. And that is not
constructive selling. I suggest to
you that the challenge ahead to
industry and to you people is the
sales problem. We recognize it as
such, and we certainly are putting
our selling togs on.
As a matter
of fact, that is one of the reasons

and

the appraisal of
to

will have to work

we

bit harder.

ing ourselves

all, radio did not drop when telecolor, because I know that if vision came along. As a matter of
I don't touch on it, somebody will fact,
radio sales this year are
ask about it anyway. I would like going to hit almost an all-time

obsolete.

titled

and

the

would like to take this problem

the greatest

estate

some

?m g0inHgtH° take T hm0rw

ciation
who

by

next year.

member of the National Asso¬
of

at

way

of

be

appreciate that

can

it

do something.

we

each may vary so the
this

of

Color
1

of

business.

of

out

lawyer

a

so

15

page

the

I

Why

should anyone else use our figures
trust

from

SCSXS

so

by law) in establishing values and
also the makers of markets.

been

Your

better year

too.

"We

have

freightwise, which has your present 21-inch tube on the we went into another production
been quite a problem in the past, market
this coming spring or cycle building new plants and
and we look forward to a good summer, and they will cost ap- everything else,
oo we have had
year this jear as well as even a proximately five times what the
^ears of all-out produc-

fellow

good

a

I

other

think you ought to stop worrying
about it for one thing.

Kansas

handling the order

being

sorry

become economic hypochondriacs,
Business is so substantial, and we
are so fat that we have worried
that it will slide off a little bit

lengthy but I couldn't get this to
any

economy.

compete

get left,

we

the

is

40%.

do get some sales

we

that

feel

That

crease

dis¬

are

this

If

City plant will be
ready in November and it will in-

commission.

a

had.

new

lap and

securities

in September,
anyhow I would certainly like to
talk to you about it.
"I'm

great deal of guessing about
I think we have

a

our

done as far as the components II. When World War II was over,
are concerned. There is much to we had the challenge of supplying
true. We are going into be done so far as production tech- all the consumer goods, and we
the Eastern markets. Our niques are concerned, much to be went into a production spree at

have

some

of

few

a

our

kind, then

if

even

and

see

mass

a

that

into

make

Sometimes the

still

on

hopes

fall

thereby

I

to

deceased. We

of the

markets.

of

is

President, Harry
Arnold, spoke of our going East,

off of productive work

put

and

check

even

real

the

Lend

cor¬

porations
has

this

you

before

anticipate doubling our sales tern itself has been pretty well pacity, and after we entered the
this year with our expansion of worked out and is ready for mar- war and after Pearl Harbor, we
new
markets. We have doubled keting, as far as the circuits are built up the industrial capacity to
the
number
of
distributors
we
concerned. There is much to be meet the challenge of World War

quotes but dig out unlisted quotes
or

of
the

would

we

listed

up

^are

it

Electronics Industry—
Billion Dollar Infant

industry is called

our

think

you

I think this

frankly has become the
custom. But when it comes to get¬
ting quotations as of the date of
death then

you

NSTA

moment."

that

and

have

they

traders

to

bringing
convention

establishment

beautiful

a

You

ap'peals

you

his lawyer,

an

that

idea

since consider

with

horses of this industry and make
the
biggest contribution to the

good and loyal friend of the

a

do

Continued

they usually end up as a
friend, relative or an associate of
or

know

the

of

one

we

hap¬

19
*

of

hazard

either the executor

as

be|in

to

this fee anyhow.

"What

estate valued at $500,000 carries
fee of $500 for each appraiser.

Now

appointed

will

to pay

value of the estate. In other words
an

be

appraisers

considered plums and the fees for
each amount to one-tenth of one

CHRONICLE

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.

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

20

Thursday, October 8,

1953

NSTA Affiliates and Members
Security Traders Association of New York

Secretary: Alfred F. Tisch, Fitzgerald & Company, Inc.

BURIAN,

Directors: Harry L. Arnold,

BURKE,

National Committeemen:

Harry L. Arnold, Goldman, Sachs & Co.;
Samuel E. Magid, Hill, Thompson & Co., Inc.; John D. Ohlandt,
Jr., Eastern Securities, Inc.; Stanley L. Roggenburg, Roggenburg & Co.; John J. Meyers, Jr., Gordon Graves & Co.

Alternates: James P. Cleaver, Goodbody & Co.; Edwin J. Markham, Wertheim & Co.; Barney Nieman, Carl Marks & Co., Inc.;
John J.

O'Kane, Jr., John J. O'Kane, Jr. & Co.; Walter F. Saun¬
ders, The Dominion Securities Corporation.

Meyers, Jr.

George V. Hunt

John

S.

Elected:

December, 1952; Took
Expires: December 31, 1953.

French

Office:

January

1,

1953; Term

OF

Rice

AAL,

C.

JEROME

Bache

&

&

MEMBERS

Lasser

Baxter,

F.

Williams

BUTLER, JOHN

Geyer

&

Co.,

Co.

Tellier

&

CABBLE,
Burns

Co.

JOSEPH
Bios.

CAHEN,

ABELOW. ALFRED
Mitchell

&

ACKERT,

PHILIP

Freeman

J.

I.

&

K.

Cahen

B.

The Dominion

W.

York

Walston & Co.

First Vice-President: George V.

Hunt, McLaughlin, Reuss & Co.

Second

Vice-Presidenti John S. French, A.
pany, Inc.

C. Allyn

J.

HERBERT

Company

Hentz

&

Co.

S.

Hall

New

R.

&

Bache

H. M.

Ingalls

A.

BARKEN,

Co., Inc.

Hirsch

PETER

BARMONDE,

Eric

&

A.

Kidder

M.

Co.

H.

C.

T. L.

&

Co.

Gersten

Reilly

(Associate)

&

P.

Co.

EDWIN

&

G.

Frenkel

COHEN. EUGENE M.

COLANDRO, JOSEPH N.

White, Weld & Co.

JULIUS D.
&

Allen &

Co.

C. MERRITT

Company

COLLINS, GEORGE L.
Geyer & Co., Incorporated

Drevers

Freeman

COLWELL,
W.

E.

&

Company

SAMUEL

Hutton

&

F.

Co.

CONLON, BERNARD J.
P. F. Fox & Co.

HENRY G.

Watson & Co.

CONLON. JOHN A.
Eastman, Dillon &

BURBANK, BERT

Co.

CONLON, Jr., JOSEPH F.
W.

White, Weld & Cu.
BURCHARD, GERARD
Charles King & Co.

Co.

&

II

Joseph Faroll & Co.

Snyder

Spencer Trask & Co.

BARYSH, MAX
Ernst

C.

BRYAN, CHARLES F.

BARTOLD, HENRY S.
Eastman, Dillon & Co.

Federal Income Taxes

Corp.

Witter & Co.

BRUNS,

D.

Wainwrlght

&

Dean

BARTON, D. FREDERICK
Eastman, Dillon & Co.

present

JAMES

CLEMENCE,

BRUGGEMAN, CHARLES

Co.

&

FRANK

Co

COLTHUP, JAMES F.

BARNES, RICHARD M.
BARRETT,

Exempt from

Gilliland

Boston

Goodbody
Corporation

BROWNE, HOWARD S.
Tweedy, Browne & Reilly

PHILIP T.

Barmonde,

Inc.

&

R. W. Pressprich & Co.

CLEAVER,

BROWN, THOMAS J.

JOHN S.
Higginson Corporation

Co.,

Trust Company,

First

COLEMAN,

Saxton &

&

Cohu & Co.

BROWN,

BARKER,
Lee

Rollins

CHAVE, WILLIAM F.

BROWN, HAROLD L.

LESLIE ~

Co.

Hornblower & Weeks

Browne &

&

G.

Week

CHRISTOPHER, WILLIAM

Hanseatic

ALVIN

H.

CHAPMAN, EDWARD L.
Spencer Trask & Co.

BROWN, D. HOWARD

W.

Byllesby & Company Incorporated

BARBIER,
G.

Company

Webber, Jackson & Curtis

Tweedy,

Co.

JOHN

The

GEORGE F.

York

Co.

WILLIAM

CHANNELL, CLIFFORD K.

PETER

BROWN,

AVERELL, ALFRED B.

BAIR.

Inc.

BROOMHALL, ALLEN
*

Co.

Plainfield, N. J.

Co.,

&

&

The State

Graham, Ross & Co., Inc.

Paine,

Co.

&

Legg

(Associatei

CHADWICK, TABER J.

(Associate)

STANLEY BRUCE

BROODS,

(Associate)

GERALD

Aronson,

&

Co.

CASPER, HARRY D.
John J. O'Kane, Jr.

AllenJfc Company

ARNOLD, HARRY L.
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
ARONSON,

Interest

C.

BROCHU,

H.

STATE AND MUNICIPAL BONDS

White

ALLEN,

&

Blair,

^

BREWER, III, JAMES R.
John

ALTMAN, MOSES K.

Underwriters, Distributors and Dealers

G.

Corp.

JOEL

&

CARROLL, JOHN J.

Inc.

FRANK J.

BRENNAN, JAMES I.

(Associate)

(Associate

CARRINGTON, Jr., WILLIAM G.
Ira Haupt & Co.

Co.

Pizzinl & Co..

BRIGGS,

and Com¬

Treasurer: Nathan A. Krumholz, Siegel & Co.

W.

ALEXANDER, DOUGLAS C.
Joseph J. Lann Securities, Inc. (Associate)
Allen

"

Zuckerman, Smith & Co.

C. A. Alberts & Co.

President: John J. Meyers, Jr., Gordon Graves & Co.

&

Hanseatic

A.

Albert

BRAND, HARRY L.

ALBERTS, CHESTER A.

Securities Coiporatior

CAMPBELL, JAMES V.
H. C. Wainwright & Co.

Capper &

McLaughlin, Reuss & Co.

ALBERTI, JOSEPH S.

Alfred F. Tisch

Bros.

BRADY,

AIGELTINGER, FRANK
Aigeltinger & Co.

Inc.

Co.

CALLAWAY, Jr., DAVID II.
First of Michigan Corporation

CAREY.

BRADLEY, WALTER V.

AIELLO, MARK T.
Spencer Trask & Co.

Nathan A. Krumholz

Co.

&

B. Boucher & Co.

Sutro

H.

&

CALEF, JOHN C.

Bendix

McManus

BOUTON, HOWARD R.

Company

C.

Denton,

CAPPER, MILTON

BOUCHER, JOHN B.

Company

&

SAMUEL K.

CAPPA. MICHAEL

Bros.

Joseph

ABELE. EDWIN A.
Blair, Rollins & Co., Inc.

Incorporated

BYRNE, HENRY W.

CANTER,

BOND, JOSEPH V.
&

Company

Newborg & Co.

CANAVAN, JOHN J.

BOLOGNINI, RINALDO A.

Co.

Company

BUSCHMAN, HERBERT

Sartorius

ABBE, RICHARD

and

Auchlncloss, Parker & Rcdpatn
Mitchell

New

ROSTER

F.

HAROLD J.

BURKE, JOHN

S.

John J.

ARTHUR

Daniel

Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Leslie Barbier, G. A. Saxton & Co., Inc.; Richard M. Barnes, A. M. Kid¬
der & Co.; Thomas Greenberg, C. E. Unterberg, Towbin Co.;
Edward J. Kelly, Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.; George V.
Leone, Leone & Pollack; Daniel G. Mullin, Tucker, Anthony &
Co.; Henry Oetjen, McGinnis & Company; Lewis H. Serlen,
Josephthal & Co.; Charles M. Zingraf, Laurence M. Marks & Co.

C.

Pitfield

&

Co., Inc.

COPPLE, LIVEY E.

L.

Smith, Barney & Co.

BARYSH, MURRAY L.
Ernst

BOND

THE

CHASE
OF

THE

DEPARTMENT

OF

NEW

BASTIAN, WILLARD
Geyer & Co., Incorporated

YORK

Bell System

Teletype NY

Batkin

Co.

&

BEAN, JULES
Singer, Bean

1-1010

'

l

0

BATKIN, ELY

Pine Street Corner of Nassau

Tel. ITAnover 2-6000

Co.

BASS, SOL
Bear, Stearns & Co.

NATIONAL BANK

CITY

&

BECKER.

=A

Markie.

&

EDWARD

Reynolds

&

Inc.

Underwriters, Brokers

I.

and Dealers

Co.

BECKER, FRANK
Guaranty Trust

H.

of New

Company

distributing

York

BELKNAP, WILLIAM F.
William

R.

Staats

Co.

&

Corporate

BEN, HANS E.
New

GRACE NATIONAL BANK

Abbott, Proctor & Paine
BERTSCH,
A.

Grady,

OTTO

A.

&

FOR

Co.

SAMUEL F.

Bissell & Meeds

BEZER, CHARLES A.
Sutro Bros.

-

Co., Inc.

Berwald

BESWICK,

Laird,

since 1886

ARTHUR W.

Saxton &

BERWALD,

COMPLETE CLEARANCE FACILITIES

municipal Securities

and

Corporation

BENTLEY, HAROLD W.

G.

OF NEW YORK

Hanseatic

York

Co.

&

BIES, SYLVESTER J.
Edward

LOCAL AND OUT-OF-TOWN

Brokers and Dealers

S.

Ladin

Co.

(Associate)

BILLINGS. JOSEPH H.
Cowen

&

Co.

BIRD, JAMES F.

Gudef Winmill & Co.

W

birnbAum, nahum

E. HUTTON & CO.

Birnbaum & Co.

Write

or

call

for

BITTNER,

details

Shaskan

MURRAY
&

Co.

C.

Members New York Stock

(Associate)

and other

BLAIR, FRANK H.
Allen &

Clearance Department

Company

BLANCHARD,

HANOVER

SQUARE, NEW YORK 15, N. Y.

Exchange

leading exchanges

STEPHEN

NEW YORK

L.

CINCINNATI

Schwabacher & Co.

;

BLOCKLEY, JOHN C.

Philadelphia

Harris, Upham & Co.
Member

Federal




Deposit

Insurance

Corporation

BOGGS, WILLIAM H.
Carl

M.

Loeb,

Rhoades

BOLAND, WILLIAM H.
L

Boland, Saffln & Co.

&

Co.

Lexington, Ky.

Baltimore

Euston, Pa.

Boston

Dayton

Portland, Me.

Hartford
Lewiston, Me.

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CORBEY, JOSEPH J.
Allen &

FARRELL, JOHN J.

Company

Farrell

CORKEY,

DONALD B.
Hutton & Co.

F.

E.

CORLEY,

Blyth

EDWARD

&

Co.,

Peter

P.

&

Mitchell

Co.

Good'oody & Co.

M.

Marks

&

Co.

Reed,

Lear & Co.

CRY AN,

M.

Co.,

Inc.

(Associate)

CUNNINGHAM, FRANK
Kidder, Peabody & Co.

Stone

&

CUSACK, JOHN T.
Amott, Baker & Co.
ERNEST

&

Curtis

Merrill

Sutro

&

Co.

&

Beane

Co.,

&

&

DeFINE,

ROBERT

DELAIRE,

F.

DE

MAYE,

Sutro
De

L.

H.

&

E.

R.

Co.

Co.

Wm.

M.

&

GUITON,

G.

,,

WILLIAM

V.

&

Wien

S.

Co.

&

C.

Laurence

Frazier

FREDERICK,
Co.,

Inc.

(Associate)

R.

Co.

&

Baxter,

PAUL

Williams

O.

Co.

Warren

W. York

&

B.

JOHN

Frederick

FRENKEL,

Company,

Inc.

Gersten

J.

M.

Wm.

P.

Co.

JOSEPH
Frankel

A. G.

Co.,

Edwards

GAVIN. JAMES
Walston

&

&

Co.

Chas. E.

Co.

Oscar

Barr

Bros.

GIBBS.

Pierce,

Edwin

& Beane

WILLIAM

ENGLE,

GISH,

&

Kruge

KRUMHOLZ,

Co.

Siegel

Co.

NATHAN

Inc.

A.

Peabody

&

Co.

&

KELLY,

HANNS

KUEHNER,

Co.

Kuehner

E.

Co.

&

JOSEPH

Burnham

and

ROBERT J.

Bonner

KUIPERS, HENRY G.
Lord, Abbett & Co.

Company

J.

(Continued

& Gregory

page

on

Co.

P.

&

S.

J.

Mabon

&

Corporation

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itl

Bleichroeder, Inc
J.

Heaney

&

Co.

Co.

HECK, JOHN
THOMAS

J.

.

HEIDINGSFELD, JESSE
Ira Haupt & Co. (Associate)

HERZOG, ROBERT I.
Herzog & Co., Inc.
HIGGINS,

GEORGE FARRELL

Clark, Dodge & Co.
HINCHMAN, ROBERT M.

Son

Ira Haupt & Co.

HINES, JOHN D.

Co.

Dean

KINGSTON

Witter & Co.

HOBLITZELL, BRUCE C.
Wm. L.

Burton & Co.

HOLTZMAN, SYDNEY

HORCH. ERNEST M.

P.

Lazard

(Associate)

New

CARL K.
and

Kuhn,

Company

THOMAS

W.

Securities

York

Oppenheimer,
(Associate)

Loeb

HOUGH,

Corporation

&

&

Co.
C.

C. J. DEVINE

Co.

CLINTON

G.

48 Wall

Long & Meaney

HUFF. Jr., ASA C.

I.

Georgeson

&

Chicago

Co.

4

CO.

Vanden

Broeck & Co.

HAnover 2-2727

Street, New York 5

•

Boston

Cleveland

GOLDSCHMIDT, SAM'L

Inc.

Co.

HORTON. CHARLES
Wertheim

GOLDMAN, EDWARD PRINCE

Higginson Corporation

&

Corporation

Hanseatic

GOLD, SAMUEL
Lapham «fe Co.

THOMAS S.

Freres

HORN, EDWARD A.

GOLD, SAMUEL

Shields & Company

FABRIC ANT, SEYMOUR
Wm. E.
Pollock & Co.,

EARL H.
Gearhart & Otis, Inc.

A.

Co.

Carolina

TRACY R.

•

Philadelphia
Cincinnati

•

Washington

St. Louis

•

•

Pittsburgh

San Francisco

•

HULSEBOSCH, GERARD F.
Godnick

HUNT,

E.

White,

&

Son

JANSEN

Weld

& Co.

■

'

'

■

■

..

Private

Wires

♦

UNLISTED

&

LISTED

ATLANTA
BOSTON

PERSHING & CO.

BUFFALO

SEC]UICITIES
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New York Stock

American Stock Exchange

Exchange

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Chicago Board of Trade

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HELBIG, BARON G.
Baron G. Helblg & Co.
D.

Tatro Co.

LOUIS

GLEASON.

Hunter Securities Corporation

Lee

&

A.

L.

Boettcher

SAMUEL

ERICKSON, WILLIAM T.

EVANS,

C.

Laird, Bissell & Meeds
Gill &

& Company

&

&

GILL, THOMAS

FREDERICK R.

Englander

C.

C.

HOOPER,
Fenner

Goodbody & Co.
Freeman

E.

GEYER, GEORGE
Geyer & Co., Incorporated

EGENES, BERGER

ENGLANDER.

WALTER

KELLY, JAMES FRANCIS

KELLY,

MICHAEL

Hardy & Co.

Industries, Inc.

Gruss

GHEGAN,

EISELE,

&

Joyce,

Hanseatic

HEFFERNAN,

GERTLER, JOHN H.

PETER duBOIS
Qulncey & Co.

Lynch,

KRUGE,

HECHT, JOSEPH T.
•?-

& Co.

JOHN

Petroleum

ECKSTEIN, J. FRANCIS
Interstate Securities Corporation

Merrill

F.

Mathey & Co.

Michael

GERSTEN, HENRY B.

EBBITT, KENNETH COOPER
Shelby Cullom Davis & Co.
ECKLER,

A.

HEANEY,

Co.

&

GERMAIN,

EATON, STANLEY C.
Bendix

Gregory

Burnet & Co.

Arnhold

Co.

&

GEARHART, Jr., FREDERICK
Gearhart & Otis, Inc.

C.

Masterson

L.

GANSER, EDWARD N.
First of Michigan Corporation

Co.

C.

Frank

Inc.

HARVEY, EDWARD A.

PAUL A.

Peter Morgan

DURNIN, JAMES B.
H. D. Knox & Co., Inc.

JOSEPH

EUGENE

Company

York

W. E.

GANNON. LESTER F.

DUNNE, FRANK

EIGER,

New

Bradley, Gammons & Co., Inc. (Associate)

S.

GAMBOL J.
& Rollins (Honorary)

EAGAN,

&

KRISAM, WILBUR
Geyer & Co., Incorporated

Hirsch & Co.

Co.

WILLIAM

Hardy & Hardy

Schoellkopf, Hutton & Pomeroy, Inc

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

&

Bonner

KEATING, LAURENCE C.

Kidder,

HARDY, HARRY J.

& Sons

GAHAN. JOHN P.

Dunne

Inc.

Corpn.

Inc.

W.

FUCHS, AUGUST G.
George B. Wallace

Incorporated

GAMMONS,

Dunn

&

Securities

KRASOWICH, JOSEPH D.

& Co.

HATZ, ARTHUR

F.
&

FRANCIS

DOYLE, LESTER T.
Hardy & Co.
Merrill

F.

WILLIAM I.

KRANZ, GEORGE
Piitnam Fund Distributors,

Walter

Frenkel

DONNELLY, Jr., JAMES A.
Reynolds & Co.

DUGA, J.

KORN,

& Co.

KELLY, EDWARD J.
Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades

Co.,

(Associate)

FRANK H.
DePasquale Co.

Co.

Alstyne, Noel

KELLEY,

GURDEN

Hutton

Co.

LESTER
&

FROST,

V.

DUNN,

&

LAWRENCE

DONADIO,

Co.

ARTHUR T.

Allen &

FRINGS, J. GEORGE
Sterling, Grace & Co.

Boucher &

B.

Free

&

Co., Inc.

WILLIAM II.
Kidder & Co.

DOLAN,

E.

Bros.

KOLLER, Jr.,

KASSEBAUM, JOHN E.
Van

Inc.

HARTIGAN, RAYMOND A.

DOHERTY,
A.

L.

Curtis

Co.,

HART, MAURICE

J.

and

W.

Lasser

Shelby Cullom Davis & Co.

Pizzini &;

W.

HARDER,

G.

&

L.

Co.

&

FREDERICKS, Jr., PAUL C.
&

Jackson

&

KOERNER, IRVING
Allen & Company

Co.

Shearson, Hammill

& Co.

W.

Knox

GEORGE J.

Dominion

Alsberg

JOHN

L. Day

D.

KOCH,

KANE, WALTER

GUTTMAN, RUDOLPH
White, Weld
Co.

(Associate)

KNOX, HERBERT D.

Co.

KANE, THOMAS FRANCIS
&

Co.

&

Wertheim & Co.

KANE, GERALD F.

Ernst

W.

GEORGE

Lebenthal

Wood, Gundy & Co., Inc.

Inc.

Delafield

&

Bullard & Smyth

KNAPP, REGINALD J.

Inc.

KALES, DAVIS

Co

Corp.

KLEIN, LEROY

Co.,

&

IRWTV

HAMILL,

Dixon

Allyn

Webber,

Incorporated

FRAZIER, LAURENCE S.

Co.

Co.,

&

(Associate)

Securities

CHARLES E.
Granbery, Marache & Co.

ALLAN

Frank C. Moore <Sc

Co.

KLEIN,

H.

H. FRASER

Forgan

Kaufmann,

Co.,

Delafield

Filor,

KAISER, CHARLES M.
Grady, Berwald & Co., Inc.

Co.

Co.

I.

King

&

KIRTLAND,

R.

&

&

JOSEPH J.

KIRK,

Co., Inc.

O'Connell

King

Bros.

King

Charles A. Kahl &

&

F.

&

&

A.

SAMUEL H.

KING,

KAHL, CHARLES A.

R.

Saxton

Paine,

Whitehead

&

(Associate)

Co.

&

MARTIN

Sutro

JOYCE, WILLIAM H.
Joyce, Kuehner & Co.

Homer

GUTBERLET, EDWIN S.

FRENCH, JOHN S.
A. C. Allyn and Company,

A.

A.

Glore.

Inc.

DIXON.

DOHERTY,

JOSEPH

HARRY

GURLEY,

A.

Co.

Frankel

F.

Charles

KING,

WALTER

Saxton

KADELL,

Craigmyle, Pinney & Co.

FREE, FREDERICK L.

&

Sunstein

GUMM,

Gardner

&

Gerstley,

A.

OLIVER

Starkweather

JUNGER. SAMUEL H.

D.

SAMUEL

HALK,

T.

WILLIAM

G.

(Associate)

Joseph McManus & Co.

FRANKLIN, ROBERT
F.

Lubetkin

Inc.

Walker & Co.

GUTTAG.

&

Co.,

GRONICK,

HALSEY,

Boland

&

GROWNEY, E. MICHAEL

DITTELL, LEONARD
Dreyfus & Co.
Cutter

(Associate)

Company

FRANKEL,
&

Co.

RALPH

Seligman,

Greenfield

Iv.

J. W. Sparks & Co.

-J

Corporation

FRANKEL, HERMAN
Singer, Bean & Mackie,

J.

SAMUEL

S.

HARRY

Rob-inson

KING, CHARLES

Estabrook & Co.

GRIMSHAW, FREDERICK M.

ADRIAN

KIMBERLY,

Co.

&

GRIFFIN, OSCAR

j"

Pont & Co.

Co.

Ungerleider

DEVLIN, HUGH J.
John

&

Co.

JOHNSON, STANLEY J.
Battles & Company, Inc.

GREGORY, Jr., WM. II.
Bonner & Gregory

R.

Securities

Reinholdt

Ingraham &

DIMPEL.

Beane

BARTON

FRANKEL.

JOHN E.

Bros.

SOCIO,

&

JOSEPH

&

Miller

W.
&

KILMER, HUGH
Hardy & Co.

A.
&

CHARLES H.

JOHNSON,

FRANK, ROBERT R.

Co.

Reuss

ALLEN

Company

Ellis

H.

G. H.

B.

Frank

Berlinger

ALVIN

McLaughlin,

D.

FRANK, ISADORE

Gregory

Frederick

S.

American

Inc.

DEDRICK, GEORGE
Joseph McManus &

IRVING
and

Cosgrove,

JANN,

IRVIN

Vanderhoef

JACOBUS, ROYDEN E.
Vilas & Hickey

Towbin Co.

GREENE, NATHANIEL

FRANK, HAROLD W.
Inc.

DAWSON-SMITH, STANLEY E.
Eonner

FOX,

EDWIN
Sherman

D.

Raymond Kenney & Co.

KERR,

IRVING

Co.

THOMAS

GREENFIELD,

-

F. FOX &

&

Corporation

JACOBS, SIDNEY
Sidney Jacobs Co.

Inc.

C.

Unterberg,

Greene

E.

Ladenburg, Thalmann

THOMAS JOSEPH

Allyn

du

E.

GREENE,

FRANK, ALBERT F.

MARTIN

C.

A.

C.

O'Kane, Jr., & Co.

S.

Co.,

D.

JANARELI, JOSEPH
GREENBERG.

Co., Inc.

JOSEPH

L.

_

Fenner

(Associate)

Eberstadt & Co.

DAVIS,

John J.

P.

Pierce,

HENRY

Bros.

DAVIS,
F.

Lynch,

JOHN

&

JACOBS,

P.

Purcell

A.

ITTLEMAN,

Co.

&

Co.

ISAAC. IRVING H.
Stryker & Brown

Bruce & Co.

IRVING
Pitfield

C.

Edward

Inc.

FOX, P. FRED

DANEMEYER, JOHN J.
DAVIS,

Pitfield

C.

Francis I.

Peck

&

GRAHAM, FRANK

F.

& Co.,

FOOTE, GORDON

DALE, CALVIN D.

Hill

R. Williston,

W.

JAMtS

L. Canady

FLORENTINE

A.

Paine, Webber, Jackson
Adams &

W.

J.

A.

Byfield

II.

Company

WILI.ARD S.

Benjamin.

FLECKNER, WILLIAM L.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner

Incorporated

RICHARD

&

<b

Securities

Hunter

Qo.

&

GRACE,

EDWARD

S.

FLANAGAN,

Webster Securities Corporation

DAHLGREN,

Shields

FITZPATRICK, DOM1N1CK A.
Van Alstyne, Noel & Co.

CURRY, THOMAS L.

Ashplant

W.

FISCHER.

W.

(Honorary)

B.

GOURSE,

FitzGERALD, JOHN M.

CURRIE, Jr., JAMES

KENNEY, JAMES F.
H. M. Byllesby and Company,
Incorporated (Associate)

GEORGE B.

D'Assern

Co.

CHARLES

FILKINS, WALTER L.
Troster, Singer & Co.

FitzGLRALD,

Cryan &

HUNTER, WELLINGTON

&

GOWAN, VINCENT M.

Robert

FRANK M.

Frank

KENNEY, D. RAYMOND

GOODMAN,

Company

Spiegelberg, Feuer & Co.

CROWLEY, JOHN B.

HUNT, GEORGE V.
McLaughlin, Reuss & Co.

F.

FEUER, ABRAM J.

CRONE, EDWARD A.
Laurence

&

HUNT,

SAUL

Golkin

FELTMAN, IRVING L.

S.

CRAIG, JOSEPH J.

KENNEDY, WALTER V.
Coffin & Burr, Incorporated

GOLDSTEIN, DAVID
Newburger, Loeb & Co.
GOLKIN,

GOODEVE.

FELDMAN, ARNOLD
Stieglitz & Co.

Inc.

McDermott

Co.

Bonner & Gregory

M.

COURTNEY, HARRY

...

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Securities

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22

Mis.

&

Mr.

Harold

B.

Smith,

Pershing

&

Co.,

New

York

City;

Mrs.

Med

Ilch,

Idaho

Power

Mr.

Co.

mader, henry j.
White, Weld fit Co,

Security Traders Association of New York

Mrs.

Henry

J. Arnold, Geo. Eustis & Co., Cincinnati; Mr. & Mrs. Lee R. Staib,
Cincinnati; Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. Vasey, Geo. Eustis & Co., Cincinnati

McKENNA, FRANK

-

Grimm

magid, samuel e.
Hill, Thompson fiz Co.,

(Continued from page 21)

&

Geo. Eustis & Co.,

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Thursday, October 8, 1953

V.

MALONE,

KUMM.

OF MEMBERS

WILLIAM

J.

Coggeshall

LICHTENSTKIN,
E.

Hicks

&

LACY

KUX.

American

Nile

Corporation

Dillon

Eastman,

,

LADD,
The

fit

HERBERT

Pulis,

fiz

Boston

EDWIN

Edward

LALLY.

Co.

S.

II.

Ellis

Co,

Inc.

McLaughlin.

Carl

Marks

fiz

Reuss

fiz

MARTENS.

M.

Cohu

fiz

Co.,

Co.

fiz

Bear,

PALL

J.

LUKOW,

Weeden

PHILLIP

Ira

C.

Sz

Co..

JOSEPH

LANN,

Joseph J.

LARKIN,

fiz

Goodbody

D.

fiz

A.

Lauer

LEIBERT,
Mitchell

Inc.

MacCallum

&

Co.

Equitable

V.

The

LEONE, GEORGE V,
Leone

LEVY,

&

LEVY,

LEWIS.
Ira

Sachs

MARTIN

Lee-Willen

fiz

&

fiz

Union

N,

Vernon,

N.

Y.

Pierce.

Fenner

&

Beanc

Blyth fiz Co.,

W.

E.

MURPHY, RICHARD J.
Wm.

Van

Deventer

Adams

Bendix

A.

&

fiz

McGIVNEY,

McGOVERN,

McEvoy

MADDOX, Jr., WILLIAM
Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Allen

Fenner

fit

Beane

Burton

R.

Uhlmann

T.

McGOWAX.

Inc. (Associate)

FRANK

Inc.

B. J.

MILLER,

G.

fit

Co.

Igoe,

Co.

J.

Bonner

East Orange,

N.

J.

New

V.

Inc.

Carl

&

JOSEPH

Libaire,

Stout

&

L.

List

fiz

Co.

Thomson

Co.

Eastern

Publishing Company

HERCULES

i

'

Kidder fiz

fiz McKlnnon

Jr..

JOHN

Securities,

D.

Inc.

O'KANE, EDWARD R.
John

J.

O'Kane. Jr. & Co.

O'KANE, Jr., JOHN J.

JOIIN

John

Co.

MUELLER, Jr., WILLIAM C.
M.

Inc.

Fitzgferald fiz Company, Inc.

OHLANDT.
fiz

(Honorary)

A.

J.

Co.,

O'HARA, WALTER T.

A.

Harris, Upham fiz

INCORPORATED

fiz

Ogden. Wechsler fiz Co.

Buck

McDermott

Blue

EDWARD

Childs

OGDEN, CHARLES D.

Co.

MORTON, ROALD
The

Co.

Whitehead

McGinnis fiz Company

MORTON, PAUL S.

MOTTINO.

fiz

fiz

OETJEN, HENRY

MOORE, MELVILLE

WM y. FRANKEL & CO.

F.

Pont

S.

McGinnis & Company

EDWARD

P.

du

Miller

O'DONNELL, JAMES

Co.

MORRISSEY, JOSEPH P.

Peter

C.

Co.

B.

&

Newborg fiz Co.

J.

Corp

Inc.

O'CONNOR, WILLIAM D.

Marks

Richard

Co.

O'CONNELL, HOMER J.
Homer O'Connell fiz Co., Inr

GILES

RICHARD

&

Marks fiz

O'CONNELL,
Beane

F.

Laurence

Laidlaw

Corp.

Hanseatic

Francis I.

A.

MONTANYE,
MONTE,

York

Cosgrove,

Duffy fiz Co.

M.

Gregory

NYE, JOSEPH

Pierce, Fenner fiz

GERALD

King,

&

NOKE, G. HAROLD

Thompson & Co., Inc.

J.

Co.

NIEMAN, BARNEY

Inc.

MONTANYE,

Co.

fiz

WALTER C.

The First Boston

Incorporated

SAMUEL B.
Eastern Securities,

Merrill Lynch.

Jr.

NIELSEN, SOREN D.
Co.

Co.,

Edward

AT .'RED

Charles King fiz

Inc.

NELSON, GEORGE E.
NESTER,

&

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Latshaw

fiz Co.

(Associate)

A.

RICHARD

MITCHELL,

Weeks

WILLIAM

Van Ingen

NELSON, GEORGE
Stuyvesant F. Morris,

T.

fiz

Barrett Herrick

Hill,

T.

J.

F.

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JAMES
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fiz

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WALTER

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Graves

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S.

C.

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S.

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F.

robert

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H.

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Mcdowell, iiarold m.

Corporation

Frederick

Gordon

Pierce,

fiz

Co.

PHILIP

Gordon

JAMES

Burnet

&

P.

Inc.

MURPHY, Jr., WALTER

(Associate)

J

Lynch,

Hornblower

F.

MURPHY, KENNETH

Co.

S.

WALTER

Rose

MEYER,

M.

Lynch.

McDONALD.

Corp.

JOHN M.
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MacLEAN, JOHN S.
Winslow, Douglas fiz

Co.

fiz

Co.

MILTON

Shulro.

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Merrill

Singer, Bean fiz Mackie, Inc.

L.

Legg fiz Company

Bonner fiz Gregory

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MEYER,

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fiz Co.

Joseph Faroll & Co.

McCarthy, jdaniel d.

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Hunter Securities Corporation

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Stern,

Co.

MORRIS

LYONS, LAURENCE H.
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ROY

Knox

Masterson

JOHN

Merrill

fiz

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J.

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C.

JOSEPH
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C.

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of

TITLE COMPANY and

WEINGARTEN, LOUIS
Herzog & Co., Inc.

Laurence M. Marks & Co.

Special Division

ANTHONY

Wainwright & Co.

WEINBERG, SAMUEL
S.

a

Trading Department Which Specializes in

Forces)

WILLIAM

Cullom

Davis

&

&

Gregory

Amott,Baker & Co.
Incorporated

Co.

WELSH, JOHN JOSEPH
Bonner

1722

Arsdale, Los An¬

geles (net)

Co.

WORTHINGTON, THOMAS F.
C.

VERMILYE,

Guaranteed

Harmet, Chicago

Neiland Van

WITTMAN, DAVID

Hourwich & Co.

Cleveland;

Hagensieker, St. Louis;

Alfred

WITTICH, WILBUR R.

Bruce

Van Tuyl & George

>

Long,

Ber¬

Denver;

WITKOWSKI, JOHN
John

Co.

(Denver Mixed)

Denver;

Co.

VARE, ARTHUR

Railroad

Sept.

series.)

games

Kennedy,

Martin

Company

&

Currie,

High

Masterson &

TUYL, E. EVERETT

VERIAN,

(All two

Trevor

(Associate)

WIRTH, HOMER

RIPER, MILTON
R.

VAN

Thursday,

and

Winning Team

Co.

Co.

KEEGAN, BENJAMIN H.

VAN

the

J.
&

WINSTON, LOUIS

NOOT, HARRY

C.

of

Competition held

1953 at Sun Valley Lodge,

Idaho.

Laird, Bissell & Meeds

Unterberg, Towbin Co.

Frank

results

are

Bowling

16-17,

Company

& Co.

PERCY

WIEN,

Fell Si Co.

Torpie & Saltzman

Co.

TUZO, LAMAR K.

VANDER

Company

&

WIEN, MELVILLE S.

VALENTINE, JOHN H.
Shearson, Hammill &

(Honorary)

(Associate)

WILLIAM

WIELAR,

Burnham

TROSTER,

C. E.

TETMEYER,

Digest"

UNTERBERG, CLARENCE E.

Co.

TOMPKINS, BERNARD

TERRY, FREDERICK A.

A.

Rhoades

Wednesday

Dealers'

|

TYSON, Jr., ALBERT
Spencer Trask & Co.

TITUS, Jr., WILLIAM A.

TENENBAUM, L. JAY

Loeb,

Following

M.

Harris, Upham & Co.

EDMUND

M.

Halsey, Stuart & Co. Hi *

RAYMOND

Union Securities

TITOLO, JOAQUIN

J.

(Associate)

Bowling
Competition Winners

RALPH H.
Company

WHITLEY, J. B.

Dixon

Investment

"The

TAYLOR, J. BLYTH

Taylor, Deale & Company,

&

(Honorary)

Co.

Carl

NSTA

Hickey

&

GEORGE D.

TRIGGER.

TINI, HENRY R.

Company

Frank

WHITING,

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

TREFCER,
SWORDS.

Vilas &

WESEMAN,

Towbin Co.

THOMAS J.

TRACER,

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

WERKME1STER, JR., JOHN O.

BELMONT

TOWBIN,

V*'.,

'

150 BROADWAY

(Associate I

Telephone BArclay 7-4880
WENDLER, EVERETT F.
Mitchell & Company

•

NEW YORK 38, N. Y.

Teletype NY 1-588

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THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Number

Phipps,

Portland, Oregon; Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Walsh, Newhard, Cook & Co., St.
L. Phipps, E. M. Adams & Co., Portland, Oregon; Mrs. & Mr. Eugene
F. Willis, J. W.
Tindall & Company, Atlanta

Justus

Louis;

C.

Preston

Bond Club of Denver

Martin, Jr., The Robinson-Humphrey Company, Inc., Atlanta; William Nelson,
Clark, Landstreet & Kirkpatrick, Inc., Nasnville; Clifford K. Channell,
The First Boston Corporation, New York City

BOSWORTH, ARTHUR F.
Bosworth, Sullivan & Co.

HADLEY,

BRERETON, WM. H.
Brereton, Rice & Co.,

HAGGERTY, JOHN P.

BRIDGEWATER,
Central

Inc.

Trust

&

National

DONALD
and

Boettcher

BROWN,

Company

IIANIFEN,

K.

BUCHENAU,
Colorado

Cruttenden

Bank

Kirchner

CHAPIN,
Don

DON

HERSHNER,
The
of

Fort

Collins.

Vice-President: Gerald D. Bachar, J. A. Hogle & Co.

CLARK,

Secretary: Howard P. Carroll, Carroll, Kirchner & Jaquith, Inc.

CLARK,

Campbell, Campbell, Jacobs & Co.

located

otherwise
ADAMS. EUGENE
The International

The

Trust

Co.

National

JOHN

Amos

C.

&

Investment

Co.

Fort

Collins,

Co.,

and

Inc.

M.

KUGELER, HENRY A.
Denver National Bank

W.

(Continued

Company

page

on

26)

UNDERWRITERS AND DISTRIBUTORS

RAYMOND

P.

MUNICIPAL AND CORPORATE

Garrett, Bromfield & Co.
Mutual

Founders

Depositor

SECURITIES

Corp.

ALLEN

W.

•

Bosworth, Sullivan & Co.

Chapin

J.

ROBERT

CONNELL,

& Co.
Colo.

Brereton,

NORMAN C.
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

BARWISE,
Merrill

BATCHELDER,
Amos

ASHLEY, LEO C.
First National Bank

PRIVATE PLACEMENTS

Rice & Co., Inc.

AVERY. ROBERT J.
The United States National

Bank

&

WILLIAM
National

M.

B.

Peters, writer & Christensen, Inc.

Co.

Peters,
B.

Christensen,

Writer &

CORPORATE FINANCING

Inc.

COUGHLIN, EDWARD B.

Bank

Coughlin and Company

ARTHUR F.
Bosworth, Sullivan & Co.

BORLAND,

Denver

COPELAND, A.

COPPES, WARD E.

HERMAN

Sudler

C.

BERGER,
Colorado

COUGHLIN, WALTER J.
Coughlin and Company

Van alstynr, Noel a

COXHEAD, J. WALLACE
Bosworth, Sullivan & Co.

with

the

qualifies

following

securities

specialists in this

us as

for

group.

Arden Farms Co. Com. & Pfd.

Sullivan

LAWRENCE
Bosworth, Sullivan

CRIST,

Oil

&

Bullocks

Inc.

K.

CURRIE,

Albany Railroad

!

Common

California Electric Power 2Y2%

& 3% Pfds.

Stock and

Old

5Y2s

831, Western Savings Fund Society Building, Broad

Merrill Lynch,

Pierce, Fenner & Beane

MARTIN G.
National

States

United

Bank

MEMBERS
DONALD

DELAON,
Central

Bank

&

F.
Trust Company

New York Stock

DENNISON, FRANK

Interstate

Baking Corp. Com. & Pfd.

Pacific
Pacific

Co.

American

Bosworth,

Plomb Tool Co.

Common

Puget Sound Power & Light Co. Com.
Seattle Gas

A.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

CHARLES

Central

&

Gold

Bank

National

Forbes

Fields, Inc.

on

Request

Members New York Stock Exchange

120

leading

Security

and

So. LaSalle St.,

Private

Wires




to

Los

CORRESPONDENT WIRE SYSTEM

,

to

Bullock

Calvin

WILIAM

National

Denver

J.

GOODE,

J.

Albuquerque-

Bank

ERNEST 8.
& Poor's Corporation

Cruttenden

&

Commodity Exchanges

Chicago 4, 111.

GORHAM,

GRAY,

GRAY

GREENE.
J.

A.

<fc

Ce.

-

B.

& Co.

Houston

C. O'Donnell

~

~

&

Co.

-Harold S. Stewart & Co.

Paso

Harrisburg

Kansas City—Burke &

Company

"

-R.

Detroit
El

RICHARD

Hogle

Chicago

Denver

W.

PAUL

Garrett-Bromfield

&

-

-Blair F.

Claybaugh & Co.

-Crockett

&

Company

Tucson —Henry

Angeles and Chicago
GRIFFIN.
J.

A.

LYNNE

Hogle

Co.

MacDonald

Angeles-Dempsey-Tegeler & Go.
Hulburd,Wsrren& Chandler Midland
— Southwestern Securities Co.
Wm, J. Mericka & Co., Inc.
New Orleans-T. J. Feibleman & Co.
Southwestern Securities Co. Phoenix
—Kenneth Ellis & Co.
B. E. Simpson & Company
Pittsburgh —Blair F. Claybaugh & Co.

Dallas

Co.

Quinn

McMaster Hutchinson & Co.

Chicago
Cleveland

H.

American Stock Exchange

Broadway, New York 5, N. Y.

231

through

Bank

FORSYTH. ALEXANDER

Standard

ERNST & CO.

RETAIL DISTRIBUTION

MARKETS and

TRADING
Company

H.
& Company

GODFREY.

other

Fenner & Beane

Trust

RUSSELL

GARRISON,

Information

New York 6, N. Y.

CLAYTON O.

FLOYD,
First

Midwest Stock Exchange

Co.

39 Broadway

DOWNING,
.

Exchange—American Stock Exchange

CHARLES

DOOLITTLE,

FORBES,

Tiffany & Co.
Consolidated

Statistical

&

Co. Common

^Universal Pictures Co., Inc. Warrants
Yuba

J.

Sullivan

DAVID C.
Hogle & Co.

DODGE,

Investors

Mercury Television Mfg. Corp.

McManus & Co.

Joseph

of

Denver

Disney (Walt) Productions Com. & 4s, 1960
Fullerton Oil

& Chestnut Streets

NORMAN

DAVIS,

The

Common

Philadelphia Office
Room

TREVOR

DECKER,

Utility Company

Co.

&•

Investment Co.

Mullen

DAVIS, GEORGE
Harris, Upham & Co.

Capitol Records Inc. Common

Central Public

STREET, NEW YORK 5

P.

B.

The J.

Blue Moon Foods
Boston

American Stock Exchange

Exchange

52 WALL

Co.

&

CRILEY,

Arizona Public Service Com. & Pfds.
Bareco

New York Stock

Bosworth, Sullivan & Co.
CRAWFORD, JOHN C.
Bosworth,

Go.

Members:

J. WALLACE

COXHEAD, Jr.,

identity

many years

and

Bank

ROBERT

Co.

WILLIAM II.
Boettcher and Company

Our

National

KIRCHNER,

Carroll, Kirchner & Jaquith.
&

CYRIL

COLE,

CONKLIN,

ARGALL,

of

Co.

&

BAKER, DUDLEY F.
Bosworth, Sullivan & Co.
A.

Company

NEIL

Bank

COLLINS, LOWELL O.

Don

First

R.

ALLEN

Colorado National Bank

Mullen

BAKER, ROBERT R.

Bank

State

BACHAR, GERALD D.
J. A. Hogle & Co.

H.

Sudler

K.

J.

KING,
JR.,

FRANK

Boettcher

GEORGE P.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

ROSCOE

AYERS,

GEORGE H.

Denver

ALFF,

unless

Denver

FEEDEBIC A.

ADAMS,
ALFF,

in

indicated)

Bank

B.

Sudler

C.

CODY,
(Members

IIIRTII,

CLARKE,

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

National

PHILLIP J.

Amos

Treasurer: Donald M.

&

HICKS, J. W.
J. W. Hicks

Inc.

BERNARD F.
Bosworth, Sullivan & Co,

KENNEDY,

D.

States

Colorado

GLEN

Colorado

JOHN

United

Walter

Inc..

Co.

CHRISTENSEN, E. W.
Peters, Writer & Christensen,

President: John H. Alff, Amos C. Sudler & Co.

Inc-

JORGENSON, O. JERRY
Peters, Writer & Christens*-, ''no.

Denver

IIICKERSON,

Jaquiih,

&

A.

ChaDtn

A.

Co.

JAQUITH, RICHARD E.
Carroll, Kirchner & Jaquith,

OSCAR
Grain Exchange

Colorado

CARROLL, HOWARD

Howard P. Carroll

Co.

Trust

Iruernation

The

IIASSELGREN.

Company

CAMPBELL, DONALD
Campbell-Jacobs & Co.

Gerald D. Bachar

IRION, WHJTTEIK^I.

E.

HARRY

National

Carroll,

Depositor Corp.

JACOBS, DONALD
Campbell, Jacobs

Co.

&

Co.

&

E.

Mutual

LARRY C.
J. A. Hogle & Co.

W.

Investment

Mullen

IIARRY

Founders

INMAN,

and'Company

HARRIS, GEORGE R.

Company

BRUNTON, DAVID
J.

HUNT,

W.

Springs, Col.

A.

Hanifen

HARDEY, PAUL
Amos C. Sudler

Company

and

Colorado

IIANNON, HOWARD
Stone, Moore & Company

Bank

F.

Management Corporation

HUGHES, MRS. ARLEEN
E. W. Hughes & Co.

& Co.

EDWARD

McCabe,

FRED

J.

Boettcher

Sullivan

II,

HAROLD

Hamilton

LLOYD
Coughlin and Company

W.

A.

American

HUBER,

H

Company

HAMMER,

The J. K. Mullen Investment Co.

BROWN,

&

Bosworth,

WALLER C.

BROWN,

PAUL

Boettcher

ARTHUR

Bank

BRINKER,

John H. Alff

25

Los

St. Louis

—Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.

St. Louis

—White

Toronto

&

Company

Newton & Co.
—Matthews & Co.

San Antonio—Lentz,

Dahlberg & Company

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26

Mr.

Mrs.

&

J.

F.

Arthur

Finnegan, Hannaford & Talbot, San Francisco; Mr.
Arnbold and S. Bleichroeder, Inc., New York City

(Pete)

Hatz,

&

Edward

Mrs.

R.

Boettcher

Walter

The J.

KULLGREN. EIAVOOD M.
Colorado State Bank

MANNIX,

LARSEN,

MARBLE.

Bank

Central

LASCOR,
The

L.

J.

LAWRENCE,
Boettcher

LEVY,

&

Trust

Company

MATHIAS,

JR.,

SAM

MAY,

LLOYD.

LORENZO

KENNFTII
Lynch. Pierce. Fcnner &

LONGWELL,
Boettcher

MACART,

ELMER
and

Colorado

J.

<& Company

MI,

RONALD

National

Boettcher

and

A.

Sudler

C.

McCONNELL.

Harris,

Co.

ULRICH,

Co.

VAN

FRANK

&

C.

JOHN

Writer

Peters,

Cf*.

WILLIS,

Boettcher

PETERS,

L.

Writer

OGDEN

&

WRITER,
Trust

Peters,

Company

WRITER,

C.

Company

ROBERT

Bank

W.

GEORGE

Writer

&

HAROLD

S.

Christensen.

Inc.

D.

Peters, Writer & Christensen, Inc.

Pierce. Fenner & Beane

JOSEPH

WALSH,

and Company

YOUMANS,

Harris,

Upham

M.

&

PAUL

E.

Bosworth, Sullivan & Co.
YOUNG. WILLIAM
Merrill

Co.

A.

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beam*

P.

GERALD

Peters,

&

VINEY, F. H.
Harris. Upham & Co.

DONALD

Trust

&

Inc.

EVERETT

PATTERSON,

Bank

J.

WILSON,

LEO

Bank

Company

ARTHUR

R.
American National

Company

Merrill Lynch,

Christensen,

&

T.

Co.

&

Inc.

Company

Upham

WILLIAMS, T.

Co.

C.

and

DITTIE,

Central

christensen,

/

Company

N.

Sullivan

FRED

Coughlin

&

and

WILLARD, E. WARREN

Central

Bosworth.

VERNER,

PARKER.

H.

Bank

&

Inc.

F.

Col.
TSCHUDI, FRANK

&

ORMSBEE, JACK
Peters, Writer &
OWENS,

MoCONNELL. FRANK
Col.

Pueblo,

Co..

Boettcher

Co.

Trust

FRED

WIESNER,

E.

WALTER

Amos

Company

<fc

Colorado Springs,

Co.,

CANTON

Garrett-Bromfield

Company

&

Sullivan

Boswell,

O'LEARY, JOHN J.

McCABE. WILLIAM E
McCabe, Hanlfen and

G.

&

O'DONNELL,

OLIN,

Moore

Bcane

LEON

Marart-Jones

MACDONALI),

York City

T.

WILLIAM

Bank

HIRAM D.
Writer & Christensen,

HERBERT P.
Coughlin and Company

Boettcher and

NEWMAN, ROBERT
Newman

Corp., New

Peters,

TRUGLIC, NICHOLAS

W.
Bank

WHITE,

Carroll, Kirchner & Jaquith, Inc.
Central

Company

National

S.

WELLER,

Co.

A

PATRICK

THOMPSON,

TROUTMAN.

NEIDIGER, EUGENE L.
Earl M. Scanlan & Co.

MAYER. KARL L.
J. A. Hogle & Co

Jr.,

Merrill

WM.

Stone,

W.

v

Merrill Lynch.

Trust Company

Street Sales

Broad

Company

Carroll, Kirchner & Jaquith, Inc.
LINVILLE,

JOHN
&

Co.

&

ORVILLE C.
Pierce. Fenner & Beane

NEELEY,

M.

MATLOCK, WOODFORD A.

DAVID
and

D.
Co

Exchange

Bank

Central

Co.

Investment

Mullen

&

PRESTON

Colorado Grain

A.

K.

ROBERT

Earl M. Scanlan

MARTIN

E.

Investment

Mullen

K.

HARRY

THARP,

King Merritt

MYERS, J. HAROLD
Bosworth, Sullivan

U.

&

CHARLES

WEBB,

FRANK L.

TETTEMER,

Bank

Mountain States

WALTER, FREDERICK D.

L.

TALLMADGE, MYLES P.
Tallmadge & Tallmadge

MITTON, CHARLES E.

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

J.

Co.

&

Marks

Barney Nieman,

& Company, Inc., Atlanta, Ga.;
Inc., New York City

A. Evans

Clement

TALBOTT,

HARRY W.
and Company

M1DDAUGH,

(Continued from page 25)

Adams,

Carl

McKINLEY, CARL D.
Greeley, Col.

Bond Club of Denver

Thursday, October 8, 1953

CHRONICLE

Christensen, Inc.

PETERS, JR., GERALD P.
Peters, Writer & Christensen,

Inc.

I'ETTIBONE, Jr.. C. ARTHUR
Earl

Mclaughlin, reuss & co.

Scanlan

M.

PIIIEFER,

&

Co.

DISTRIBUTORS

UNDERWRITERS

DEALERS

WILLIAM

Upham & Co.

Harris,

,

MEMBERS
NEW

YORK

AMERICAN

STOCK

STOCK

COMMODITY

PLEASANTS,

EXCHANGE

EXCHANGE

W.

AARON

International

The

GENERAL MARKET MUNICIPALS

Co.

Trust

(ASSOC.)

POWELL, JAMES

EXCHANGE, INC.

Boettcher

and

Company

RAILROAD, PUBLIC UTILITY, INDUSTRIAL

QUINN, ARTHUR
Quinn & Co., Albuquerque, N. Mex.
JOSEPH

RAICIILE,

Boettcher

and

NATURAL GAS

L.

ISSUES

Company

BOND BROKERAGE SERVICE
REECE,

VERNON

Central

Specializing in Public & Stockholders Relations

Bank

&

T.
Trust

Company

CHARLES J.

RICE,

Brereton, Rice & Co., Inc.
ROBERTS.

MALCOLM

Garrett-Bromfield

STREET

WALL

NEW

YORK

5

Co.

RAYMOND

ROBINSON.

ONE

F-

&

Garrett-Bromfield

GORDON GRAVES (r CO.

ROTH,

Telephone

CHARLES
Bosworth, Sullivan

L.
Co.

&

HAnovei\ 2-1355

RYAN,

Teletype—NY 1-2155

&

Co.

30 Broad
,

Frederic

Street, New York 4, N. Y.

Telephone WHitehall 3-2840

WILLIAM

Branch
RAYMOND

Earl

410

Scanlan

M.

American

Merrill

E.

SEEMAN,

A.

B

E.

SIPLE.

Florida

Pierce, Fenner & Beane

M.

Service Corp.

UNDERWRITERS and DISTRIBUTORS

Christensen,

&

Inc.

American Steel &

THOMAS

Gulf

Pump Corp.

Sulphur Corp.

Hogle & Co.
BRYAN E.

SIMPSON.

BABY BONDS, SCRIP & RIGHTS

32,

Bank

RICHARD

Writer

SIGLER,
J.

Miami

GEORGE

Peters,
•

BIdg.,

G.

Lynch.

JR.,

Investment

SECURITIES

Bank

Co.

<fc

F. W.
National

SCIILENZIG,

SCOTT,

American

Pan

EARL M.

SCHAEFER,

REORGANIZATION & "WHEN-ISSUED"

Office:

E.

Harris, Upham & Co.

SCANLAN,

Teletype NY 1-8909

Adams

A.

SARGEANT.

Simpson
V.

H.

Audio Devices, Inc.

Kingwood Oil Co.

Belle Isle Corp.

Pyramid Electric Co. Pfd.

Company

&

Harris, Upham & Co.
SMITH,

C.

SMITH,

CHARLES

Josephthal & Co
MEMBERS

New

York

Chicago

Stock

Board

of

Exchange

Trade

American

Stock

Commodity

SODEN,

B.

Exchange,

Inc.

System Teletype NY 1-319

St., Boston 9, Mass.

LAfayette 3-4620
Direct

Telephone to Boston and Private Wire System
To

*Prospectus

on

request

Co.

STONE, ERNEST E.

Moore

Company

&

SUDLER. AMOS C.
Amos

C.

Sudler

PETER MORGAN &

Co.

&

JOHN

31

Bosworth, Sullivan & Co.
SWAN, HENRY
The

United

States

Nationiv

Bank

Denver

SWEET, WILLIAM
Peters,

Writer

A

CO.

J.

Correspondents in Principal Cities




Tri-Tor Oils Ltd.

STITT, CARL E.
J. A. Hogle & Co.

SULLIVAN,

19 Congress

J.

The J. K. Mullen Investment

Stone,
Bell

4-5000

Ltd.*

F.

Service Corporation

Exchange

120 Bioadway, New York 5, N. Y.
WOrth

Flock Gas and Oil Corporation

EATON

Investment

Christensen,

Inc.

o."

Tel.:

Nassau

Street,

DIgby 9-3430

Neiv

York 5,

Tele.:

N. Y.
NY 1-2078

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Mr.

&

Mrs.

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL

Number

Stanley L. Roggenburg, Roggenburg & Co., New York City; Mrs. and
F. Saunders,
The Dominion Securities Corporation, New York City

Kansas

City Security Traders Association

Mr.

A.

Walter

CHRONICLE

V.

COMBEST, EARL L
Herrick

Barrett

Co.,

Inc.

EISEN,

ERWIN

Eisen

Lucas,

H.

Peet

&

HALL, EMMA M.
HALL,

Trust

JOSEPH

Harris,

HANNI,

Company

&

Upham

Harris,

Co.

Waddell

N.

Prescott, Wright, Snider Co.

Securities

W.

Topeka

Corp.,

C. Sylvester Investment

Jr.f

UHLMANN.

moyer, margaret perkins

Uhlmann

Reed, Inc.

&

Cj

PAUL

Latshaw

north, frank W.
Barret, Fitch, North & Co., Inc.

WAGNER, THEODORE F.

pauly, elmer w.
Prescott, Wright, Snider Co.

WAHLER, JOHN E.
Wahler, White & Co.

reed, c.

WELSH, MERLE L.
Harris, Upham & Co

Harris, UDham &

Co.

k.
&

Reed, Inc.

Co.

&

&

A.

WHITE, LEONARD A.
Wahler, White & Co.

snyder, frank j.
Beecroft, Cole & Co., Topeka

WHITSITT,

soden,
Soden

Reed, Inc.

HILLMOND,

seltsam, donald a.
Seltsam, Hanni & Company, Topeka

W.

sparks,

Waddell & Reed, Inc.

john

p.

Investment

russell

Uhlmann

&

A.

R.

DALE

Weltner

E.

&

Co.,

Inc.

WYMAN, FRANCIS A.
Brothers

Stern

Company

Co.

&

ZAHNER. VICTOR H.

k.

Zahner

Latshaw

&

Company

HUNTER, HAYWARD H.

President: Frank W. North, Barret, Fitch, North & Co.

Treasurer: Leonard A. White, Wahler, White &

Columbian

Reed, Inc., New York,

ARTHUR W.

SYLVESTER, W. CLYDE

carl a.

Waddell

HARRISON, WILLIAM A.

Vice-President: Charles M. Harris, Harris, Upham &

STOENNER,

B.

Upham

Seltsam, Hanni & Co., Inc.,
Topeka, Kans.

Francis A. Wyman

meyer,

JASPER F.

Waddell &

ARTHUR R.

HARRIS, CHARLES M.

Leonard A, White

STEPHENS.

McDonald, Evans & Company

Waddell &

J.

Co.

GUMBINER, ALTON

Commerce

Angeles; Chester M. Glass, Jr.,
Los Angeles

George K. Baum & Company

Waeckerle

CHARLES

O.

Co.,

II.
&

EVANS, HAROLD D.
McDonald, Evans & Company
FOLEY,

&

mesler, myron d.

Latshaw'

&c

Staats

R.

Mcdonald, claude m.

&

WILLIAM J.

Uhlmann

Charles M. Harris

Schroeder, Hoffman Radio Corp., Los
William

DYER,

Frank W. North

27

George K.

Co.

Baum &

Company

JENNINGS, JOHN H.

Bonds, Incorporated, Kansas City, Kans.

Co.
JONES, CLARENCE E.
Stern

Secretary: Francis A. Wyman, Stern Brothers & Co.

Brothers

&

Co.

Founded J 851

JONES, KNEELAND

ROSTER OF MEMBERS
(Members

located

Kansas

In

otherwise

City

unless

Commercial

Kansas

BACKLUND, C. W.
Merrill Lynch,
Pierce,
barnes,
H.

O.

Fenner

&

Beane

National

&

& MacDonald

bertrand, francis

COLEMAN, HARRY L.

Peet

&

B.

C.

H.

Co.

O.

Peet &

&

Co.,

Inc.

WALLACE

J.

Peet

LISTROM.

LOCKE,

CLAYTON, HARVEY A.
Harvey A. Clayton & Co.

O.

O.

&

Co.,

Kansas City

UNDERWRITERS

&

-

DEALERS

Latshaw

LOWELL

Christopher

&

Co.

Industrial, Public Utility and Railroad Securities

WILLIAM G.

Merrill Lynch,

Pierce, Fenner & Beane

State and

LUCAS, Jr., MARK A.

Co.

DISTRIBUTORS

-

JOHN

Uhlmann

CARROLL, LAURENCE B.
Burke

Weltner

LATSHAW,

CHARMLEY, JOHN A.
B. C. Christopher & Co.

Co.

BELCHER, DONALD D.
Martin-Holloway-Belcher

H.

H.

Bank

City. Kansas

frederic p.

Peet

E.

JOURDAN,

BJORKMAN, J. D.
The

indicated)

A.

Municipal Bonds

Lucas, Eisen & Waeckerle

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CO.

&

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Net

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Sales

$

June 30,

1952

1953

7,453,000

$15,923,000

$23,988,000

770,000

1,351,000

2,011,000

1951

1950

White, Weld
Members of
and

Before Taxes

Net Profit

211,000

40

211,000

524,000

526,000

646,000

share

$.81

$1.92

$1.82

$2.11

Outstanding*

261,800

272,272

288,608

305,924

801,000

1,343,000

2,557,000

3,350,000

1,681,000

2,153,000

2,638,000

3,227,000

$6.42

$7.91

$9.14

$10.55

6,000,000

20,000,000

44,000,000

48,000,000

Net Profit After Taxes

Net Profit per
Shares

r>

'

Working Capital
Net Worth

Net

Worth per

..

Share..

Backlog, End of Period.

the New

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&

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Edwin

L.

Beck, Commercial & Financial Chronicle, New York; Ludwell A.
Strader, Taylor & Co., Inc., Lynchburg, Va.

Mr.

&

Arthur

J.

Keenan,

St. Denis J. Villere & Co., New Orleans;
Morgan, Peter Morgan & Co., New York City

J.

Peter

The officers and Herbert Schollenberger, Campbell,
McCarty & Co., Inc.; Roy F. Delaney, Smith, Hague, Noble &
Co.; Ralph Rotsted, F. J. Winckler Co.

Directors:

Security Traders Association of Detroit
And

Mrs.

Strader,

Thursday, October 8, 1953

Michigan, Inc.

National

Committeemen:

George J. Elder, Straus, Blosser &
McDowell; William P. Brown, Baker, Simonds & Co.; Neil De
Young, De Young-Tornga Co., Grand Rapids; Harry A. McDon¬
ald, Jr., McDonald-Moore & Co.; Frank P. Meyer, First of

Michigan Corporation.

ELDER,

Buckel, Manley, Bennett & Co.; Herbert Schollenberger, Camp¬
bell, McCarty & Co., Inc.; H. Terry Snowday, Blair, Rollins
& Co.,
Incorporated; Herman Tornga, De Young-Tornga Co.,
Grand Rapids.

GEORGE J.

Straus, Blosser & McDowell

EVERHAM, EDWIN M.

Smith,
EXLEY,

Noble

Hague,

CHARLES

Charles

A.

E.

Manley, Bennett & Co.
FAULKNER,

FISHER,

GEORGE

DONALD

ROSTER

Baker, Simonds & Co.
Jr., C. A.

FLOYD,

C.

Wm.

Roney

members located
otherwise

Leppel

OF MEMBERS

WILLIAM

in

Detroit

unless

BURROWS,

indicated)

Wm.

C.

A.

H.

GATZ,

Vogel &
JOSEPH

GENDRON,

R.

Braun, Bosworth & Co. Incorporated
Chas. A.

Co.

(Armed

Vice-President: William P. Brown, Baker, Simonds & Co.

Co.
F.

DON

H.

Treasurer: Bertrand Leppel, Charles A. Parcells & Co.

Hentz

GEORGE

CAVAN,
Don W.

Wm.

&

York

American
New

York

Stock
Stock

Exchange

Chicago Board of Trade

C.

New
New
New

York

York

York

Produce

Exchange

Mercantile

Coffee

&

Sugar Exchange,

CRANE,

Nauman,

Inc.

McFawn

&

Paine, Webber,

Incorporated

BOLHOVER, M. E.
Birmingham, Mich.

Cables "STAMAL"

BOLTON, F. J.

McDonnell

Hornblower

DE

Antonio,

Tex.

R.

Bosworth

&

Co.,

Incorporated

I

Co.

STOCK

H.

Wm.

Co.,

GEORGE

Co.

EIS, VALLETTE R.
Moreland & Co.

First

Co,

of

J.

Co.

PETER

C.

GORDON

Lerchen

Goodbody &

Grand

Rapids

&

Co.

Incorporated

H.

Co.

HINSHAW, JOSEPH

Watling, Lerchen & Co.
HOLLISTER.

Co.,

GEORGE

R.

White, Noble & Company,

Grand

Hendricks

EXCHANGE

&

Eastwood,

Inc.

CLARENCE A.
First of Michigan Corporation

HUBER,

FRED W.
Reid, Higbie & Company

HUBER, JACK C.
Reid,
B.

Higbie & Company

HUGHES, VICTOR M.

Watling, Lerchen

&

Co.

HUMPHRIES. NORMAN D.

Michigan

Corporation

Wm. C.

Roney & Co., Battle Creek, Mich.

HUNTLEY.
Smith,

VERL

Hague,

R,

Noble

&

Co.

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&

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Company

■

BUCKEL, HARRY B.
Manley, Bennett &

&

WM.

Watling,

Co.

Roney & Co.

EARLE, HENRY

C.

Roney

HINDES, HOWARD
&

Vogel & Co.

C.

Co.

Reid, Higbie & Company
HILL,

C.

BROWN, WILLIAM P.
Baker, Simonds & Co.

YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

AMERICAN

&

C.

HIGBIE.

DOHERTY, Jr., JOHN E.
Smith, Hague, Noble & Co.
A.

&

A.

PRIVATE WIRES TO

GARVIN, BANTEL & CO.
MEMBERS NEW

Parcells

O'Donnell &

DUFFIELD,

Crouse

PIERCE

Baker, Simonds & Co.

DUCEY, IRA J.

JOHN

Winckler

Wm.

HIBBARD,

S.

Young-Tornga

C.

RUSSELL

Livingstone,

HEBERT. L.

Weeks

JOHN

GEO.

R.

Baker, Simonds & Co.

GILBERT

A.

JOSEPH

HASTINGS.

Co.

DILWORTH, LAWRENCE

Goodbody & Co.
J.

S.

Livingstone, Crouse & Co.

DILLMAN,

BRAND, C. R.
F.

&

f

Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis

YOUNG, NEIL

De

San

Co.

Co.

Hague, Noble & Co.

HASTINGS, H.

DELANEY, ROY F.
Smith, Hague, Noble

Curtis

BOWYER, MERLE J.

MEMBERS

R.

DANIELS,

Co.

Co.,

&

CROUSE, CHARLES B.
S. R. Livingstone, Crouse & Co.

Company

&

&

Crouse

CROOKSTON, RALF A.

(Associate)

BRABSON,

L.

s

Rapids

Smith,

T.

Harriman, Ripley &

Lentz, Newton &

Braun,

Co.

Charles

&

Teletype NY 1-2129

&

C.

CURRIE.

Jackson

BOLGER, G. L.
Manley, Bennett

REctor 2-6800

Bache

BINKLEY, KENNETH

York Cocoa
Exchange, Inc.
Chicago Mercantile Exchange

JOSEPH

Co.

SAMUEL

HARTNER,

Livingstone,

BARGMANN, FRED. A.
Braun, Bosworth & Co.,

S.

New

Telephone

R.

COEN

BERNARDI, RAY P.

Exchange

Grand

HAGUE,

CODY, WM. F.

BALLENTINE, R. K.
Smith, Hague, Noble & Co.

BENJAMIN, WM. A.
Baker, Simonds & Co.

Commodity Exchange, Inc.

Winckler

GREENAWALT, H. SAMUEL
MacNaughton-Greenawalt &

MINTON M.
Straus, Blosser & McDowell

BARNARD, R. H.
S. R. Livingstone, Crouse & Co.
BECHTEL, CHARLES C.
Watling, Lerchen & Co.

Exchange

Cotton

J.

Co.

CLUTE,

Straus, Blosser & McDowell

Exchange

F.

R.

CLARK, WILLIAM E.
Straus, Blosser & McDowell

Co.

S.

New

Jackson

HAROLD

J.

BAIRD, MACKENZIE

MEMBERS

Ann Arbor

C. Roney & Co.

GORDON, WILLIAM H.

White, Noble & Company

120 Broadway, New York 5, N. Y.

Wm.

Miller & Co.

CHAPEL,

AXTELL, WILLIAM

A. L. STAMM & CO.

Corporation

GIRARDOT, ALFRED J,

J.

C, Roney

Lansing

S

GOODRICH, RUSSELL H.
Smith, Hague, Noble & Co.

McDonald-Moore &

N.

/

GILLEN, JOHN W.
White, Noble & Co.,

L.

F.

Co. 1

GILBREATH, Jr., W.
First of Michigan

Company

CARR, HOWARD F.
Carr & Company

ALLEN, ALONZO C.
Blyth <fe Co., Inc.
ALLMAN,

&

S.

Co.

&

O'Donnell

C.

&

G.
Weeks

GILBERT, NELSON R.
Donovan, Gilbert & Co.,

ANTHONY

CARMAN, RICHARD A.
Manley, Bennett & Co.

Service)

ALLARDYCE,

J.

CAMPBELL, DOUGLAS II.
First of Michigan Corporation

Parcells & Co.

ALDINGER, ALBERT H.
Fordon, Aldinger & Co.

Secretary: Victor A. Williams, Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis.

HAROLD

Watling, Lerchen & Co.

CAL1CE,

M.

ALBERS, Jr., E. P.

President: Harry A. McDonald, Jr., McDonald-Moore &

Co.

&

FRANK J.
Roney & Co.

GARCEAU,

Hornblower &

Bertrand

L.

B.

McDonald-Moore

William P. Brown

Co.

GARDNER, BRACKETT

September 14, 1953; Took Office: October 1, 1953; Term
Expires: October 1, 1954.

H. A. McDonald, Jr.

&

,_

W Co.

Parcells

FALLON, JOHN J.

-

,

Elected:

ADAMS,

Mr.

Bennett, Smith & Co.

Alternates: Charles C. Bechtel, Watling, Lerchen & Co.; Harry B.

(All

and

Mrs.

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Number

Mr. & Mrs. Carrol M. Bennett, Dallas Rape & Son, Dallas; Mr. &
First Southwest Company, Dallas

HUELEY, WILLIAM L.
Baker, Simonds & Co.
IIYDE, E.

Smith,

Mcdonald, alex
McDonald-Moore &

HABOLD

&

Reconstruction

Co.

Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis
JOHNSON,
A.

H.

EAYMOND

Mcdonald,

A.

White,
a.,

S.

george a.
Straus, Blosser & McDowell

Goodbody & Co.
KEMP, FBANK H.
White, Noble & Co.

McFAWN, JOSEPH J.
Nauman, McFawn &

KEBSTEN,

MERCIER, C. EDWIN
Straus, Blosser & McDowell

W.

R.

McFawn & Co.

Nauman,

MERCIER,

KING, CYRUS H.
Merrill

KING,
.

Straus,

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

W

Co.

&

MILL,

KINZIE, HENRY B.

Don

Baker, Simonds & Co.
National

Don

of Detroit

Bank

Goodbody & Co.
CHARLES

KREIDLEB,

A.

Goodbody

&

MOONS,

Management

Merrill

LAUDE,

Fenner

&

Beane

Bache

WM. G.

Watling,

Lerchen

J.

H.

H.

Co.

Chas. A.

Crouse & Co.

&

Mulhall,

Inc.,

GEORGE
&

WELCH, EDWARD L.
Baker, Simonds & Co.

Kalamazoo

WILLIAMS. JOHN M.

Baker,

M.

Simonds

Weeks

TITUS, DEAN W.

Paine,

&

Co.

VICTOR

Webber,

Jackson

&

Curtis

White, Noble & Co., Ann Arbor
WINCKLER,

TORNGA, HERMAN
De

D.

Young-Tornga

F.

Co.,

FREDERICK

WOCHIIOLZ,

Smith,

R.

ROBERT

Hague,

A.

Noble

&

Co.,

WOOD, WARREN A.
Baker, Simonds & Co.

VERRAL, CLIFFORD E.
S.

J.

Winckler Co.

J.

Grand Rapids

VANDERVOORT, HENRY
Nauman, McFawn & Co.

Livingstone, Crouse & Co.

VETTRAINO,

WILLIAM

Livingstone, Crouse & Co.
LOUIS

Noble

V. Sattley

V.

WORBOYS, JESSE V.

D.

McDonald-Moore

A.

Co.

& Co., Inc.

V.

H.

Co.

MacArthur

Kenower,

Vogel & Co.

VOORHIES, FRANK E.
Goodbody & Co.

YOUNGS. LEO N.

WAKEMAN,

ZOELLIN, FRED J.

Carr

WYNN F.
Baker, Simonds & Co.

Sattley & Co., Inc.

&

WRIGHT, JOHN C.

VOGEL, ARMIN H.

P.

&

JOSEPH

Manley, Bennett & Co.

&

Manley,

&

Co.

Company

Bennett

&

Co.

SCHNEIDER, ELWOOD H.
E. H. Schneider & Co., Kalamazoo

s.

Co.

McFawn

Campbell, McCarty & Co., Inc.

&

Company

SHAPIRO,

Parcells &

Co.

Dealers and Brokers in

IRWIN

& McDowell

Blosser

Straus,

WILLIAM

SHOEMAKER,

E.

Railroad, Public Utility & Industrial

Reid, Higbie & Company
SIMMONDS, CHARLES M.

111.

NEPHLER, Jr., CLARENCE J.
W. H. Protlva Company, Pontiac

Manley,

Bonds & Stocks

Bennett & Co.

SIMONDS, RALPH W.

NEWMAN, PERCY P.
Bennett, Smith & Co.

Baker, Simonds & Co.

Over-the-Counter

J.

LOUIS

Winckler

F.

SCHAFER, HARRY L.
F.
J. Winckler Co.

neil, roy w.
Reid, Higbie & Company

R.

LONGSTAFF, RALPH S.
Rogers & Tracy, Inc., Chicago,
(Associate)
LUCHTMAN,

WILLIAM

SCHOLLENBERGER, HERBERT
Nauman,

F.

Livingstone,

Co.

M.

Campbell, McCarty & Co.

WILLIAMS,

Co.

SATTLEY, HALE

naumes, john r.

SEABOURN

WEED,

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

Hornblower

SANCRANT, MUREL J.

Weeks

Hornblower &

LIVINGSTONE,

R.

White,
Co.

NAUMAN, ARTHUR P.

& Co.

LICHTENSTEIN, H.

F.

S.

g.

ROWADY,

robert

&

STANLEY

Livingstone, Crouse & Co.

Detroit Stock Exchange
ROTSTED,

Co.

Parcells &

LERCHEN,

R.

&

R.

WEDTHOFF, GUY G.
First of Michigan Corporation

GORDON O.

TIEDECK,

K.
Roney & Co.

C.

Merrill

S.

Hornblower & Weeks

ROTSTED, RALPH

& Co.

nadeau,

S.

Wm.

&

WEAVER,

Co.

&

McDowell

THOMSON, EDW. D.

RONEY, JOHN

MUSCHETTE, LESLIE C.
First of Michigan Corporation

LEPPEL, BERTRAND
Chas. A.

Goodbody &
Co.

Co.

&

Bennett

Moreland

Company

ARTHUR

RODECKER,
&

McDonald-Moore & Co.

J.

RAYMOND

Goodbody

Co.

MORELAND, PAUL i.

Pierce,

Lynch,

&

R.

MacArthur

Olmstead

C.

RICHARDSON, DONALD L.
Nauman, McFawn & Co.

MOORE, WILLIAM

Company

ELMER

LARSON,

Co.

MELVIN

Kenower,

J.

Elosser &

SWIAT, LEO A.

REUTER, GEORGE A.

ROBERT

Manley,

LANTERMAN, LESTER C.

Wayne

&

Miller

McDonnell

KUPFER, RAYMOND A.
Smith, Hague, Noble & Co.

Curtis

Rapids

Reid, Higbie &

MONTGOMERY, HAROLD

Co.

STUIT,

CLARENCE

Straus,

SUTTON,

MIOTTEL, RAYMOND W.
Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis

Co.

RUSSELL A.

KUHNLEIN,

Miller

WATLING, PALMER
Watling, Lerchen &

MAX J.

SUTHERLAND. ROSS W.
Nauman, McFawp & Co.

Ferris, Wagner & Miller

Baker, Simonds & Co.
&

W.

WASS,

STRINGER,

RAUCH, MONTGOMERY K.
Paine, Webber, Jackson &

miller, george a.

KRISTENSEN, EDMUND F.
Moreland

B.

STOETZER, ROBERT R.
Bennett, Smith & Co.

Watling, Lerchen & Co.

STUART

Baker, Simonds & Co.

R.

W.

Co.

REILLY, RAYMOND W.
Manley, Bennett & Co.

Corporation

MILLER, EDWARD J.
Smith, Hague, Noble

KISSEL, ROBERT

Co.

G.

&

REID, ANDREW

miller, don w.

KISCH, JOSEPH J.

&

Mr. & Mrs. George J. Muller,

WALLACE, ROBERT
Wm. C. Roney & Co.

Bennett, Smith & Co.

Livingstone, Crouse & Co.

Gran^

McDowell

MEYER, FRANK P.
First of Michigan

LEO

Goodbody

Company

R.

Joseph E. Smith, Newburger & Co., Philadelphia;
Janney & Co., Philadelphia

POWELL, BYRON L.
A. M. Kidder & Co.

H.

THOMAS

Blosser &

Noble

PORTER,

Co.

&

Simonds

PORTER, CLAUDE

Mcdowell, jr..

KAUHL, HEBMAN A.

Baker,

Corporation

harry

jr.

Co.

&

PIERSON, E. T.

Finance

McDonald-Moore

Vogel & Co.

Mrs.

STOETZER, Jr., ROBERT H.

Lerchen

Watling,

Washington, D. C.
(Honorary Member)

O.

&

PICKNER, P. G.
Co.

Mcdonald, harry a.

Noble

Hague,

JABVIS, LEEOY

Mr.

Mrs. James F. Jacques,

29

SLOANE, WADE
Baker, Simonds & Co.

NOVIKOFF, walter N.

Co.

Straus,

Blosser

McDowell

&

D.

Howard Brown

&

Trading

Dept.

Frank J. MacKain

LUDINGTON, BERT F.

OBUCHOWSKI,

Straus, Blosser & McDowell

THAD

McDonald-Moore

&

SMITH, Jr., HAL H.
Co.

Smith, Hague & Co.

MacARTHUR. REGINALD

MacArthur

Kenower,

& Company

oddy, r.

Baker,
MACE.

K.

Simonds

&

SMITH, PHIL H.

Co.

Kales-Kramer

ROBIN G.

Goldman, Sachs

<sc

Bennett

Manley,

&

R. C. O'Donnell &

OSBORN, MILO

Co.

Moreland &

O.

Paine,

Webber,

PANELLI,

JOHN

Jackson

&

Parcells & Co.

Curtis

Blair, Rollins

A.

& Co.,

PARCELLS, EARLE W.
Chas. A. Parcells & Co.

SPAULDING,

MANLEY, MILTON A.

PARKER, HOWARD L.
Manley, Bennett & Co.

STANKO, MARION J.
White, Noble & Co.

Smith

&

Co.

Manley, Eennett & Co.
MANLEY,

Jr.,

MILTON

W.

White,

JAMES

H.

Protiva

Company,

S.

R.

Exchange
Exchange

NEW YORK 5, N. Y.

BROADWAY

Incorporated
7-6800

—

Bell

System

Teletype NY

1-1459

RICHARD C.
Sattley & Co., Inc.

H.

Straus, Blosser & McDowell

Pontiac

STEIN, MYRON D.
A. M. Kidder & Co.

RICHARD W.
Livingstone, Crouse & Co.

PENDER,

Noble & Co.

V.

Stock

Stock

Lerchen & Co.

STANWOOD, FRANK

PARMENTER, EUGENE A.

A.

Manley, Bennett & Co.
MARTIN,

H.

York

American

M.

MAHONEY, J. ALBERT
Bennett, Smith & Co.

Bennett,

100

COrtlandt

WAYNE

Watling,

New

Members

SNOWDAY, H. TERRY

SPADE.

EARL D.

Members

Co.

PARCELLS, Jr., CHARLES A.
Chas. A. Parcells & Co.

MAHONEY,

Ingalls & Snyder

ComDan<

SNELL, ROBERT L.

Company-

MacPHERSON, PETER
Charles A.

Investment

O'DONNELL, RAYMOND C.~

Co.

MacFARLANE, JOHN O.

INVESTMENT

Specializing in

SECURITIES

RAILROAD

BONDS

and

STOCKS
Glore, Forgan & Co.
NEW

McGINNIS 6- COMPANY
Members
61




BROADWAY

DIgby 4-4933

New

York

Stock

Exchange

NEW

YORK

6,

N. Y.

Teletype NY 1-310

Members

CHICAGO

YORK

and

New

York

and

American

Midwest
Stock

Stock Exchanges

Exchange

Jackson

THE

3U

Thursday, October 8, 1953

COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

-a

Frank

M.

York

Mrs.

Cryan, Frank M. Cryan &. Co., New
City, speak,ng at luncheon meeting

Myrtie

Parsons,
Mrs.

&

Cleveland,
Mr.

Winton A. Jackson, First Southwest Company,
Cayne, Gottron, Russell & Co., Cleveland

Ohio;

Morton

A.

PIKE, WILLIAM

Robert D.

Alternates:

Security Traders Association of Los Angeles

F. Nightingale,
President, Mountain Fuel
Supply Co., speaking at luncheon meeting

W.

Dallas;

Diehl, Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis;
Summerell, Wagenseller & Durst, Inc.; Nieland B.
Arsdale, Blyth & Co., Inc.
'■

Van

PLATT,
J.

EDWARD

R.

Williston,

17, 1952; Took Office: January 1, 1953; Term
Expires: December 31, 1953.

Wagenseller &

in

Weeden

OF MEMBERS

Angeles unless

Los

HENRY,

indicated)

otherwise

HOLTON,

ARBOGAST,

Durst,

&

PAUL

Dempsey-Tegeler
Demp.sey-Tegeler

&

ROBERT

J.

0.

H. W, Wessendorf, Jr.

Robert M. Green

,

James G. Fraser

F.

First

Vice-President: H. W. Wessendorf, Jr., William R. Staats & Co.
Treasurer: Robert M. Green, Pledger &

BETZ,

Governors: George H. Earnest, Fewel &

Co.; Albert W. McCready,
Jr., Walter C. Gorey Co.; Nieland B. Van Arsdale, Blyth & Co.,
Inc.

Daniel

Los

George H. Earnest,
Tegeler & Co.

Fewel

&

&

E.

ALAN

D.
National

Bank

Merrill

&

LINK,

MUNICIPAL BONDS

ROBERT

G.

CASS.

ROBERT

T.

Allen

A.

COCKBURN,

Mitchum,

SPECIALIZING IN ODD LOTS

COOK,

LIPPMAN,

to $10,000)

William

DAVIES,

McCREADY,

Co.

Walter

&

Staats

Revel

KtlNICIML

LEBEINTHAL6 CO.
135

broadw, newyork ©in.y.

1 Oldest House lu America
Um-ODO-LOTS

.

Pa inc.

E.

DORROH.

Specializing ftyl

tg,

IH-ODOLOTS

System Teletype NY 1-2272

&

NEVINS,

Curtis

Fewel

EBNER.

O'NEIL,
J.

L.

ENGI.E, EDWARD P.
First

California

KUPER,

Smith

&

Co.

&

Beane

B.

R.

Merrill

VV.

WILLIAM

Williston,
FRANK

Lynch,

WARNES, ROY

C.

Bruce

&

Co.

J.

Pierce,

Fenner

C.

Shearson, Hammill & Co?
WEBSTER, WILLIAM

A.

WELLER, JOHN
Wagenseller & Durst, Inc.

Co.

Inc.

WESSENDORF, JR., HOMER
William

R.

&

Co.

WRIGHT,

R.

Lester,

J.

Weeden

&

&

Ryons

&

Co.

L.

Co.

\

WRITER, JOSEPH
Walston

Co.

&

Co.

&

ZIMMERMAN, WILLIAM J.
Bingham, Walter & Hurry,

E.

Weedon

PAISLEY,

Staats

WILLIAM

Co.

DONALD
&

R.

Co.

FOSTER

Inc.

ZINK, JAMES
Walston

Co.

&

Co.

Company

THOMAS

Akin-Lambert

F.

Co.

&

RICHARD

Crowell,

Bateman, Eichler & Co.

&

T.

Barth

OWEN,

'

CHARLES

J.

WARD

Co.

RICHARD

Fairman

W.

george h.

Jr.,

Inc.

RICHARD

WALKER,

Company

Weedon

Ryons

O'NEIL,

Company

Col

&

Durst,

Barbour,

Wagenseller & Durst, Inc.

S.
&

JOHN

Lester,

.Shearson, Hammill & Co.

Earnest;
I jpdRDSl

Jr.

T.

Gorey

Blyth & Co.,

WILLIAM

&

ARSDALE, NIELAND
Blyth & Co., Inc.

MODRELL, PALL

Jackson

&

E.
Inc.

Bateman, Eichler & Co.

JOHN

Hutton

F.

Durst,

Rogers,

VERNON,

ALBERT

WILLIAM

Crowell,

D.

Webber,

DOFMAN,

REctor 2-1737

(ODD LOT MUNICIPAL BONDS!
Bell

ROBERT

DONALD
&

VAN

A.,

JOSEPH

A.

Miller

MILLER,

Co.

JR., WILLIAM II.

Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.
DIEHL.

Wagenseller

Co.

&

Jr.,

C.

McOMBER,

Co.

&

SCOTT

TUTTLE, GORDON B.

Co.

First California

I).

&

B.

R.

&

Curtis

TURNER, STEPHEN C.

Co.

CLEMENS

MANWARING,

Co.

JAMES

&

<fe

I).

Crowell, Weedon & Co.

CRUTTENDEN, ARTHUR S.

up

Hull

TIMOTHY

Hogle & Co.

SUMMERELL,
Co.

WILLIAM

Holton,

A.

Gross,

Hill Richards

Dempsey-Tegeler

(Amounts

Kraft

Co.

Wagenseller
&

W.

Shearson, Hammill & Co.

FRANK

LUEKER,

&

Tully

JAY

J.

Co.

Kraft

F.

&

D.

Company

Webber, Jackson

STOUT,
&

&

FOREST

SPILLANE,

LIVINGSTONE, CHARLES

D.

Henderson

CASS,

Floyd

Paine,

Harris, Upham & Co.

Co.

THEODORE
&

F.

CLIFFORD

SILLICK, JACK

KRAFT, OSCAR F

Oscar

Co.

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Eeane

Harbison

Ca ifcrnia

KRAFT, OSCAR F., JR.

E.

&

Noyes

CAMINSKY, DONALD M.

CARLSEN,

of

II.

Co.

Hutton

F.

Morgan
Co.

A.

Co.

Witter

Oscar

Hutton

F.

of

&

SHIPLEY,

WILLIAM

&

Dean

WILLIAM E.

BROWN,

E.

Co.

"Times" (Honoraryi

PATRICK

SHIPLEY,

C.

Co.

I..
&

ROBERT

Angeles

SHEEDY.

KIRWAN, NICHOLAS P.

Beverly Hills

Merchants

MAXFIELD

Hemphill,

Co.

Co.

Inc.

Co.

Ryons

Fairman
&

Fewel & Co.

J.

Co.,

Angeles

BROWN.

National Committeemen: A. Shane

McOmber, Revel Miller & Co.;
Co.; John C. Hecht, Dempsey-

EDWARD

&

Farmers

&

Bruce

KELLER, THOMAS H.

Bank

BRASSINGTON,

I?.

Investment

JOHNSON,

Inc.

Sutro

Reeves

Los

JAMESON, CLAUDE

Company,

HERMAN

BOURBEAU.

Secretary: James G. Fraser, Stern, Frank, Meyer & Fox.

Lester,

Staats

&

Standard

EARL F.
California

California

Company, Inc.

Falrman

A.

Co..

KENNETH

SANDIFER,

O.

R.

L.

inc.

JOHN

&

RUSSELL,

Co.

IRISH, HERBERT

LEEBE, JAMES L.
Hill Richards & Co.

BERRY,

President: A. Shane McOmber, Revel Miller & Co.

A.

Co.

&

Co.

RYONS, JOSEPH
&

Williston,

William

Marache, Dofflemyre & Co.
A, Shane McOmber

R.

IMBLER,

Co.

Harker

NORMAN

Colburn

L.

L.

Co.

&

HUFF, ROBERT

& Co

KENNETH

BARSAMIAN,

BATES,

R.

RICHARDS,

Co.

&

HUDSON,

Inc.

H.

M.

ARTHUR

Walston

DONALD

Wagenseller
ASCHKAR.

Hull

IIOSKIN,

Co.

&

Ryons

&

JAMES

Akin-Lambert

CHARGES

Holton,

ALEXANDER, JACK
Lester,

CONRAD

Durst,

PULLIAM, LAWRENCE S.

REEVES,
(Members

Bruce

POINDEXTER, CLIFFORD

Elected: November

ROSTER

C.

Morgan & Co.

Donald E.

J.

Co.,

Inc.

FETTERS, JOHN J.
Jones,

Cosgrove & Miller,

FRANKEL, harold
Falrman

NEW

JERSEY

FRANKLIN,
Samuel

Pasadena

C.

Co.

SAMUEL

B.

FRASER,

B.

Franklin

JAMES

&

Company

G.

Frank, Meyer & Fox

Stern,

MUNICIPAL & REVENUE

&

FREEMAN, AL\ IN R.
Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.

.

GAM.EGOS, JOSEPH F.
Lester, Ryons & Co.

RONDS

GARRETT,

PIERCE

GARROWAY,
GIVN,

R.

DAVE

AFFILIATED

WILLIAM

Dean

Witter

GLASS,

&

Co.

CHESTER

William

R.

Staats

&

Co.

FUND

GO

LDSCHMIDT, PAUL
Lester, Ryons & Co.

i

GREEN. ROBERT M.
Pledger & Co., Inc.

Roland, Saffin & Co.
Established

20 PINE ST.
NEW




WHITEHALL 3-3414

Company,

A Balanced Investment Fund

V

Inc.

Witter & Co.

IIANAUER,
J.

BUSINESS SHARES
.

MAX

B.

JACK

Hanauer

IIARDCASTLE,
Dean

JOHN

Prospectuses

Co.,

Lord, Abrett & Co.

Beverly Hills

63 Wall Street, New York

Co.

C.

HENDERSON, ROBERT
I.

du

request

PARKMAN

CHICAGO

Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.
Francis

on

B.

&

Witter &

HECHT,

Teletype—NY 1-535

&

-

A Common Stock Investment Fund

SAM

Pledger

HALL,
Dean

TELEPHONE

YORK 5, N. Y.
Bell System

1920

GREEN,

AMERICAN

M.

Pont

&

ATLANTA

LOS ANGELES

J.

Co.

,"'
I

Mr.

&

&

Mr,

& Mrs.

Mrs. Ralph C. Deppe, Edward D. Jones & Co., St. Louis;
Company, Milwaukee, Wis.; Mrs. & Mr. Harry L. Nelson,

(Pete)

A.

Pierre

Heimerdinger, Walter, Woody & Heimerdinger, Cincinnati; Mr.
Kosterman, J. R. Williston, Bruce & Co., Portland, Oregon

G.

John

Mrs.

31

FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

THE COMMERCIAL and

Convention Number

Berwyn T. Moore & Co.,

J.

Fenner

Pierce,

& Beane
REID,

BEN

REIMER,

Goodbody & Co.

Hilliard

A.

Berwyn T. Moore &

Stein

The Kentucky

H. Allan Watts

SOMMERS,

Inc.

Vice-President: Wesley J. Rutledge, Jr., Stein Bros. & Boyce.

Secretary: Mrs. Ora M. Ferguson, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner
& Beane.

J.

&

Wagner, Reid

S.

ROENN,

&

Son

WARREN

G.

DUNLAP
Wagner, Reid and Ebinger, Inc.

WAKEFIELD,

Boyce

SOL

Jr., WILLIAM T.
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner

WATKINS,

(Honorary)

Merrill

ELINORE

WATTS,

H.

ANTHONY

& Beane

ALLEN

W. L. Lyons &

Co.

WILSON, HOLMAN R.
The

Kentucky Company

JOHN
WOOD,

Smart, Clowes & Oswald, Inc.

and Ebinger, Inc.

Company

Hilliard

B.

J.

VON

Lincoln Bank & Trust Company

SMART,

Beane

VOGT, ERNEST

Inc.

The Bankers Bond Co., Inc.

EBINGER, RUSSELL

President: J. Berges Reimer, Berwyn T. Moore & Company,

Inc.

Bank & Trust Company

Citizens Fidelity

Fenner &

& Boyce

Bros.

Stein

Moore & Co.,

Bros.

Kentucky

TROST, MILTON

J. BERGES

SEDLEY, MRS.

JOSEPH H.

DURHAM,

Pierce,

TRINKLE, WALTER
The

Reid & Ebinger,

SCHULMAN,

Trust Company

DIERSEN, JOSEPH II.
Eskew, Gresham & Dlersen

W. J. Rutledge, Jr, Mrs. 0. M. Ferguson

Son

Fidelity Bank & Trust Co.

Courier-Journal

Reimer

&

ANDERSON

DEARING,

Lynch,

REID
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

RUTLEDGE, WESLEY

Co.

DESMOND, C. G.
Stein Bros. & Boyce

J. Berges

Merrill

STONE,

Inc.

FRANK

Berwyn T.

WILLIAM

DEAN,

Co.,

JOHN L.

Wagner,

Co., Inc.

Bankers Bond

The

B.

Citizens

CONWAY, POWHATAN M.
CREGOR,

J.

REGISTER,

CONLIFFE, WILLIAM J.

Lynch,

Bond

Inc.

Smart, Clowes & Oswald,

Merrill

Bankers

RASH, DILLMAN A.

R.

JOHN

CLOWES,

Inc.

ROBERT E.

PURYEAR,
The

Inc.

BERT

STERNBERG,

Moore & Co.,

T.

Berwyn

Almstedt Brothers

CHRISTMAN, Jr., HENRY
O'Neal-Alden & Co., Inc.

Reid and Ebinger,

Wagner,

Inc.

EDWIN W.

POWELL,

JAMES R.

BURKHOLDER, Jr.,

H.

SPIERS, JOHN

PARKS, JOSEPH W.

BURGE, JOHN M.
J. J. B. Hilliard & Son

Bond Club of Louisville

Fred G. Morton, The Milwaukee
Blyth & Co., Inc., Chicago

SANDY

FEHRIBACH, URBAN H.
Linooln Bank & Trust Company

FERGUSON, MRS. ORA M.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner

,

& Beane

FETTER, JAMES M.
The Bankers Bond Co., Inc.

For financial institutions

Treasurer: H. Allan Watts, W. L. Lyons & Co.
FULLER, ASA W.

Graham,

Thomas

Committeemen:

National

The

Bankers Bond

Liberty National Bank & Trust

Co., Inc.; Mrs. Ora M. Ferguson, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner
& Beane.

Took

Office:

January

1,

1953;

Term Expires:

January

1, 1954.

Co.

C. A.
Citizens Fidelity Bank & Trust Company

GERST,

FOREIGN

G1TTLEMAN, DAVID L.
Stein Bros. & Boyce

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

GRAFTON, ARTHUR W.

SECURITIES

Wyatt, Grafton & Grafton

ALDEN,

WM.

O'Neal-Alden

ALDEN,

BOHNERT,

0.
&

WM.

Jr.,

O'Neal-Alden &

ALLEN,

The

O.
Co., Inc.

BOOTH,

MOREY

Stein Bros.

BROCAR,
J.

& Co.

W.

Bankers Bond Co.,

Co., Inc.

HORACE

Goodbody

HECTOR

Jr.,

GRAHAM, THOMAS

Inc.

Co.,

Bankers Bond

The

"

Inc.

A
BERNARD W.
"Times" (Honorary)

GRATZER,

& Bcryce

The Louisville

ALBERT C.

J. B. Hilliard & Son

TRADING

FIRM

MARKETS

GREEN, KENNETH
Stein

Bros.

Boyce

&

HAAS, WILLIAM G.
Stein Bros. & Boyce

Carl Marks & Co. Inc.

HAGIN, HART

JEFFERSON

Hutton

E.

W.

&

Lexington,

Co.,

HAMPTON, GARRETT
Merrill Lynch,
Pierce,

CUSTODIAN

The

FOREIGN SECURITIES SPECIALISTS

& Beane

Fenner

50 BROAD STREET

WOOD

HANNAH,

FUND, Inc.

Ky.

Bankers Bond

Co.,

T.

Moore

NEW YORK

4, N. Y.
TELETYPE NY 1-971

TELEPHONE HANOVER 2-0050

HARDAWAY, EARL E.
Berwyn

•

Inc.

&

Co.,

Inc.

HELCK, CHESTER L.

Prospectus

on

Request

Liberty National Bank & Trust

J.

J.

Hilliard

B.

Inc.
✓

&

Son

W. HOWARD

HOPKINS.

Frank M. Cryan Co.,

Co.

HENNING

HILLIARD,

JOHNSTON, Jr., ROBERT H.
The Bankers Bond Co., Inc.

I

Underwriters
52

Broadway, N. Y.

•

Philadelphia

JONES, CLARENCE
Almstedt Brothers

HAnover 2-3832

JONES,

Pittsburgh

WILLIAM

Louisville

Trust

Roggenburg & Co.

L.
Company

Members

ERNEST
Fidelity Bank &

KAMPFMULLER,
Citizens

National

Trust Co.

New

York

Association

Security

Dealers

of Securities

Association

Dealets, Inc.

KAUFMAN, IRVIN
Stein

New

Developments in the
CINERAMA PICTURE

The

terms

of

the

recently signed

agreement

between Stanley

Productions and Cinerama Inc.—
Stanley Warner Theatres, through a subsidiary
becomes the exclusive exhibitor of Cinerama pictures in the
entertainment field and will finance the production of up to
Warner

Theatres, Cinerama

which

under

fifteen

—have

pictures in the Cinerama process in the next five years
interesting and different implications for the potential

earnings and the equities of the three companies involved.
For a comprehensive report on this new development, write
or

Bros.

call:

15

William

4-9755

Berwyn T. Moore & Co.,




Member

Russell, Long & Company, Lexington,
LUCAS, CHESTER A.
Stein Bros. & Boyce

8.

All Foreign Bonds

_

& Stocks

Foreign Bond Coupons

McNAIR, WILLARD P.
The

Bankers

Bond Co.,

Inc.

Foreign Bond Scrip

MILLER, J. HUGH
J. J. B. Hilliard & Son

EDWARD G., Jr.
Reid and Ebinger, Inc.

BERWYN T.

Berwyn T. Moore &

A.

Specializing in

Ky.

MAJOR, EARL E.
Stein Bros. & Boyce

MOORE.

N.

Inc.

LONG, EDWIN A.

Wagner,

St., New York 5, N. Y.

CORPORATE SECURITIES

LINCH, DALE F.

MOLTER,

Ci. K. Shields & Co.
DIgby

Brokers and Dealers

Boyce

&

KING, CHARLES C.
The Bankers Bond Co., Inc.

Co., Inc.

D.
OESWEIN,
J.

J.

B.

HENRY
Hilliard & Son

29

BROADWAY

Telephone: WHitehall 3-3810

NEW YORK 6
Bell Teletype:

NY 1-1928

32

^THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Fred

T.

Rahn, The Illinois Company, Chicago; Thompson M. Wakeley, A. C. Allyn & Co., Inc., Chicago

Bond

National

Traders! Club of Chicago

y

Mrs.

&

Mr.

Thursday, October 8, 1953

Daniel

M.

Sheehan, Jr., Sheehan

Committeemen: Leonard

J. Wolf, A. G. Becker &
Co.,
Incorporated; Edward H. Welch, Sincere and Company; Edward
Vallely, John Nuveen & Co.; Milton J. Isaacs, Straus, Blosser
& McDowell; Lester J.
Thorsen, Glore, Forgan & Co.

r

»»■>," "-"J '»

^

Co., Boston

CHAFIN, RALPH
Reynolds

V.
^

&

&

John

W.

Clarke, Incorporate;!

CLEAVER,

'

'"J

Alternates: Fred T.

U B H I
too

a-'

A

Lehman

Rahn, The Illinois Company; Arthur C. Sacco,

Cruttenden & Co.; Thomson M.
Wakeley, A. C. Allyn and Com¬

i
'4 %:il

CLINE.

Took Office: March 1, 1953; Term
Expires:

GEORGE

THOMAS
&

COLLINS.

otherwise

in

Chicago unless

indicated)

ABE, WILLIAM J.
Hallgarten & Co.
ADAMS,

Jr.,

Hornblower

&

A.

Leonard J. Wolf

Peter J. Conlan

John P. Pollick

Joseph G. Ballisch

C.

ALM, WALTER
David

President: Leonard J.

Wolf, A. G. Becker & Co., Incorporated.

Vice-President: Peter J. Conlan, Hornblower & Weeks.

T.
Securities

Directors:

Donald

A.

C.

Noyes & Co,

I.

du

Pont

&

F.

Lee

Higginson

ARNOLD,
The

R.

Muller, Harris, Upham & Co.; Elmer W.
Erzberger, Smith, Burris & Co.; William S. Hunter, Lee Higginson Corporation; Thomas D. Walsh,
Doyle, O'Connor & Co.

Jr.,

National

Bank

&

Corporation

IIAZEN

First Boston

Carlton

Incorporated

Corporation

ARTHUR, JOHN
David A. Noyes & Co.

WALLACE

A.

Fuller

Gorman,

&

T.
Co.

O.

Peck

&

Co.

Fuller

&

Weeks

&

M. Byllesby

J.

and Company

Incorporated

COOLEY, RICHARD R.
Thomson

CASSERLY, Jr., THOMAS D.

A.

Co.

COOK. FREDERICK
H.

Co.

CASEY, FRED J.
Doyle, O'Connor & Co.

William

Corporation

J.

CECIL

Hornblower

CAVANAUGH, AUDRAN

S.

Milwaukee

CONLANi PETER J.

J.

&

JOHN

Harmet &

William

Link,

MAURICE

COOLEY,

Doyle, O'Connor & Co.

A.

A.

CONDIT.

G. Becker & Co.

A.

A.

COMBITHS,

J.

Illinois

Co.

CARLTON, FRANK A.
Co.

ANDERSON, WILLIAM

Company} Incor¬

Washington, D. C

Lehman Brothers

CANN,

ANDERSON, ALFRED E.
Francis

EDWARD

COLNITIS,

E.

Congress,

CANN, JULES F.

Co.

ANDERSON, JOHN A.
Anderson, Plotz & Company, Inc.

Secretary: John P. Pollick, Swift, Henke & Co.
Treasurer: Joseph G. Ballisch, A. C. Allyn and
porated.
1

A.

Trust

Weeks

&

of

Continental

E.

W.

Allyn

Member

CAMPBELL,

FRED

ALLYN, .JOHN

BUSBEY, HON. FRED

Company,

PHILIP

American

located

O.

Marshall

COCHRAN. LOREN A.
William Blair & Company

February 28, 1954.

ROSTER OF MEMBERS
(Members

J.

Co.

CLOYES, FRED
The

E.

Brothers

Kneeland

Incorporated; Elmer W. Hammell, Taylor & Co.; Orville
Strong, First National Bank of Chicago.

pany,
H.

Co.

CLARKE, JOHN W.

&

McKinnon

WM.

H.

Television Shares Management Co.

J.

COONEY, WALTER E.
Kidder, Peabody & Co.

Co.

CERF, Jr., FLOYD D.
Floyd D. Cerf, Jr. Company,

COOPER,

Incorporated

Loewi

PETER

&

Co.,

Milwaukee

BACHAR,

STEPHAN A.
Borland & Co.

Betts,

AWVWWWWHWWWWWWWHWWWWHWWWWWWiWWWW'

BALLISCH, JOSEPH G.
A. C. Allyn and
Company, Inc.

BARCLAY, HAROLD
Barclay Investment
BARNHART,
First

Co.

HORACE

La Salle

BARNHART. WILLIAM
First La

MitcliclhJoiiipam]

Salle

S.

DISTRIBUTORS

Co.

WHOLESALERS

BARROWCLOUGH, GEORGE L.
First of Michigan Corporation
BARTH,

Members

UNDERWRITERS

G.

Co.

EDWARD

White,

Philadelphia-Baltimore Stock Exchange

Weld

N.

Co.

&

BARTHELL, J. GARY
Harris, Upham & Co.

120

BAUM, NORMAN B.

BROADWAY

Tel. WOrth 4-3113

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NEW YORK 5,
Bell

Cruttenden

N. Y.

&

Co.

HUNTER SECURITIES CORPORATION

BAX, PAUL J.

Teletype N. Y. 1-1227

First

Boston

Corporation

BECKER, WILLIAM J.
Hulburd, Warren & Chandler

INACTIVES

BERG,

Broadway

New York 4, N. Y.

Betts,

RODNEY

Dlgby 4-2785

M.

Borland

&

Co.

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BINZ, A. A.
Shearson, Hammill & Co.
BLANEY,
J.

P.

JAMES

SBBSggag

A.

Stocks with the Uptick Label!

BLOHM, MILTON R.
Glore, Forgan & Co.

AS TRANSFER AGENT

•yrr.

P.

Blaney & Co.

BLECHSCHMIDT, EDWARD
Stein, Rpe & Farnham

BLOMBERG, CARL X.
Thomson

&

McKinnon

BLUMENTHAL, HAROLD
Swift, Henke & Co.

in

Ami

BOBLETER, HENRY T.

NEW

YORK, N. Y. and JERSEY CITY, N. J.

Salomon

afford

economies

and

Bros.

BODEN. JOHN
A.

We

52

BENSON, GEORGE B.
Swift, Henke & Co.

C.

Allyn

&

L.

and

Company,

Incorporated

Transcontinental Oil Corp.

BOEDEKER, ROBERT F.

other

advantages
underwriters, distributors, corporations

to

and their stockholders.

Central

Republic Company

BOWKER, HERBERT H.
Harris, Hall & Company (Incorporated)
BOYLE,

WALLACE

Gulf

and

for

State

our

free booklet setting forth the Current Federal

Stock

Original

Issue

and

Transfer

Tax

Rates.

BRADY, EDMUND
First

Securities

New York 7, N. Y.
BEekman

3-2170

IS EXCHANGE PUCE
1899

William




S.

Blair

Brown

&

&

BROWN, HARRY

Company
S.

Co.
M.

Salomon Bros. & Hutzler

BUHLE, Jr., PHILIP C.
Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Jersey City 2, N. J.

BULLER, FRANK H.
Hickey & Co., Inc.

HEnderson 4-8525

BURCH, FRANK G.
Kneeland & Co.

Over 53 Years of Efficient and Economical
Service

Ltd.

BREWER, G. FABIAN

C.

SO CHURCH STREET

Sweet Grass Oils

G.

Company of Chicago

BROWN, CARMAN

REGISTRAR and TRANSFER COMPANY

Sulphur Corporation

J.

Cruttenden & Co.

IP rite

Inc.

Hutzler

BURKE,
Blunt

DAVID
Ellis

&

L. D. SHERMAN & CO.
Member:

30 Pine St.

National

Association

of

Securities

WHitehall 4-5540

Dealers, Inc.

New York

City 5

J.

Simmons
y

BURKE, HERBERT J.
Rogers & Tracy, Inc.

Teletype NY 1-2233

SI

Convention

b '

Mr.

CORBUS,
Brown

JOSEPH

Nuveen

Loewi

Cruttenden & Co.

CRUTTENDEN,
Cruttenden

Jr.,

&

Langlll

PATRICK J.
Stearns 6s Co.

CUNNINGHAM, BERNARD
Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Sheerin

&

Co.,

Indianapolis

Stone

GEORGE
Goodbody & Co.

DAHLIN,

&

DAVIDSON, HOWARD L.
McDougal & Condon, Inc.
DAY,

W.

JAMES

Aubrey G. Lanston & Co., Inc.

F.

S.

L.

ANTHONY

dePERSIO,

Bank

FITZSIMONS, GEORGE
H. Hentz & Co.

Moseley & Co.

M.

Chicago

A.

De

YOUNG,

De

Grand

DOYLE,

Rapids,

Mich.

FULLER,
William

JOHN ROBERT

Doyle,
DOYLE,
Doyle,

O'Connor & Co.
LEO J.
O'Connor

GALE,

Co.

F.

GEORGE

Allyn

and

Company,

Incorporated

F.

B.

LANGILL, BANFORD
Langlll 6s Co.

Weld & Co.

(Continued

page

on

34)

of

At Tour Service

Chicago

...

A.

Co.

Nuveen 6s

DONALD J.
Allyn and Company, Inc.

C.

Singer, Bean & Mackie, Inc.

Jr., JOHN J.

Moseley 6s Co.

S.

J.

HALLFORD,

L.

40

6s Co.

Chapman

Farwell,

New York 5

Exchange Place

HAMMELL, ELMER W.

ALFRED

HARMET.
A.

P.

NY 1-1825 & 1-1826

HAnover 2-0270

Taylor & Co.

Stuart 6s Co. Inc.

GALLAGHER, JAMES

A.

Harmet 6s Co.

A.

HARRELL, WILLIAM R.

Inc.

Reynolds & Co.
6s

JOHN T.

GAMON,

Co.

First

The

RICHARD

Bank

National

First

HACK,

WILLIAM A.
A. Fuller 6s Co.

McDougal & Condon,
DUNNE, FINLEY P.
Shillinglaw. Bolger

DURKES,

A.

,

& Co.

C.

LANE, WILLIAM H.
Harris Trust & Savings Bank

v

H.

JOHN

GUILD,

FRED 0.

Halsey,

The

John

SIDNEY

JOSEPH T.
William A. Fuller 6s Co.

Co.

Young-Tornga

Republic Investment Company, Inc.
LANE, ROBERT W.

Incorporated

GORDON D.
Henke & Co.

GRIGSBY, WILLIAM

&

KRENSKY, Jr., ARTHUR M.

H.

GREENBERG, MORRIS
Hallgarten & Co.

Swift,

FULLER,

NEIL

Weeks

&

FLYNN, CORNELIUS E.
The Ndrthern Trust Company

Weis

S.

KRELL, ROBERT B.
Bacon, Whipple 6s Co.

Co.

Co.

KING, THOMAS E.
Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.

I

STAR C.
Moseley & Co.

KOERNER,

FRANCIS A.
Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.

White,

Milwaukee, Wis.

GREGORY,

FRIEDMAN, LEONARD
Boettcher and Company

Jr., FREDERICK V.
Republic Investment Company, Inc.

DEVOLL,

J.

GRIER,

Irving

6s

Incorporated

(Associate)

CLYDE H.
&

Co.,

KOENIG, PHILIP F.
C. F. Childs and Company

F.

Brothers

Taylor

&

OTTO J., Jr.
Marshall Company,

The

KENNEY,

Corporation

Louisville, Ky.

Co.,

FLETCHER, DONALD T.
William Blair 6s Company

FREEMAN,

Byllesby and Company,

Incorporated

Stern

Becker

G.

KOCH,

WILLIAM C.
6s Tracy, Inc.

JOHN

KEITH.

KING.

Bond

GREEN, LEONARD
Sills, Fairman & Harris,
of

DETMER. JOHN F.
H.

A.

Co.

KERR. WILLIAM D.
Bacon, Whipple & Co.

WILLIAM

Hornblower

E.

GERALD

First National

The

KIPP, JOHN D.

Investment

GREEN, ARTHUR A.
Shearson, Hammill & Co.

& Linn

FITZGERALD,

Co.

KEHOE,

THOMAS

GRATZA,

ARTHUR W.

FENTON,
Rodman

Kneeland

Rogers

Bankers

The

GLEN A.

DARFLER,

KEGLEY,

EDWARD

Los Angeles

Co.,

Securities Corporation

American

HENRY A.
Webster Securities

&

GRAHAM,

FELLEGI, JULES
I
Farwell, Chapman 6s Co.

E.

&

A.

■

CUNNINGHAM, JAMES W.'
Reynolds & Co.

Weedon

Larry Pulliam,

KEEGAN, BERNARD R.
Hickey 6s Co., Inc.

GOTT, EARLE C.
Goodbody & Co.

FEIL, PETER V.
Langlll 6s Co.

:

'

JAMES E.
Sills, Fairman & Harris, Incorporated

GORDER,

M.

FAUST, JOHN N.
Kidder, Peabody 6s Co.

J.

Greenebaum

GOODWIN,

ARTHUR E.
Byllesby and Company,
Incorporated
H.

Mrs.

KEARNS, HUGH T.

Co.

6s

&

F.

FARRELL,

CUMMINGS,

Bear,

D.

Thomas

Co.

6s

FRANK X.
Stearns & Co.

.

KANT, HERBERT H.

GOODMAN, WILLIAM D.
Freehllng, Meyerhoff & Co.

ROY *

FALVEY,

J.

CUMMINGS,

Bear,

Bache

-

Mr.

GOODMAN,

JOHN W.
Reynolds & Co.

Co.

CHARLES

CULLEN.

:

..

Thomson 6s McKinnon

EUSTICE,

WALTER W.

•

GOLDEN, GEORGE T.
Stein, Roe & Farnham

du Pont & Co.

ERZBERGER, ELMER W.
Smith, Burrls 6s Co. \

CRUTTENDEN, WALTER W.

.

Francisco

GLOSSER, EARL C.

CHARLES E.

Francis I.

-

GIESEN, ELMER J.
David A. Noyes 6s Co.

Co.

WILLIAM C. 1
8s Co., Milwaukee, Wis.

ENYART,

Co.

&

San

ELWELL,

W.

Co.

&

Incorporated,

any,

EGNER, ADOLPH C.
Shearson, Hammill &

COUTTS, RONALD M.
John

California

First

Egan,

R.

HARVEY

Devine

J.

F.

Brothers, Harriman & Co.

CORNELIUS,
C.

John

Mrs.

&

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33

CHRONICLE

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL

Number

National

Bank of

Chicago

S.

American

National

Bank

Company

of Chicago

&

GAVIN,

Trust

JOSEPH J.

Goodbody 6s Co.

CARL A.

HARTWIG,

.

FIRM TRADING MARKETS FOR

Oorman. Peck & Co.

Link,

HAYS, EDDE K.
Central

Republic Co.

BANKS...

BROKERS...

HEALY, WILLIAM B.
David A. Noyes & Co.
HERMAN,
The

Have you

tried the New Jersey market?

FRANK

First National Bank of

Fanner

Wires

Philadelphia

Chicago

Reynolds & Co.

Republic Investment Co. Inc.

J.

RICHARD

Kneeland

Fabrics, Inc.

Inc.

Hlokey 6s Co.,
HICKEY,

Lea

Direct

Chicago

HICKEY, Jr., MATTHEW J.

INSTITUTIONS

Co.

6s

HIRSCHBERG, EDWARD A.
Greenebaum Investment Co.

Manufacturing Company

HITCHCOCK, JAMES E.
Cruttenden

Federal Electric Products

6s

Co.

WILLIAM G.
•'
Co., San Antonio,

HOBBS,
Rusa

Tex.

6s

M.

THEODORE

HOELCK,

McC<2?mick & Co.

CUNNINGHAM & CO.

GEORGE W.
225

EAST

BROAD

WESTFIELD,

Ernst

CHARLES
6s Co.

We

HOFER, RAYMOND

STREET

NEW

HOFER,

are

Ernst 6s Co.

JERSEY

HOLT.

LESTER

H.

Eastman, Dillon 6s Co.

BELL SYSTEM TWX

TELEPHONE
WESTFIELD

WSFD NJ 126

2-6322

HORACEK,
First

BUYERS OF BUSINESSES

A.

JEAN

Securities

Company

Chicago

of

HORDER, EARL R.

Halsey, 8tuart & Co. Inc.

and

HUMMEL, GEORGE F.
First Securities Company
HUNTER.
Lee

WILLIAM

■

S.

BLOCKS OF STOCKS

Higginson Corporation

HUTCHINSON. HERBERT A.

GUARDIAN CHEMICAL CORPORATION
A

Bought

•

Sold

Dealers and Underwriters of

Nuveen

Capital Stock

Mercantile




Brokers and Dealers

E.
National Bank

ROBERT

Inc.

Witter & Co.

JOHNSON, FREDERICK F.

Member Notionol Associotion

JOHNSON,

WHITEHALL 3-3388
Teletype NY 1-1965

Barcus,

Kindred

6s

70 Wall

First Boston

Street, New

Inc.

York 5, N. Y.

Co.

Telephone

TOGE V.

WHitehall 44540

Corp.

JONES, WBLLARD C.
Aubrey G. Lanston
KANE.

Hill, Thompson & Co.,

W.

CO.

The

YORK 4, N. Y.

Inquiries Invited from

JACOBSON, R. DONALD
Smith, Burrls 6c Co.

of Securities Deolers, Inc.

30 BROAD STREET. NEW

Co.

JAMES, WILLIAM E.
Halsey, Sttuart 6s Co.,

Dean

Batkiri

8s

FRANK

JACOBSON.

JANSHOFF,

&•

Co.

ISAACS, MILTON J.
Straus, Blosser & McDowell

Quoted

•

&

IMPEY, ROBERT W.
John

COMMON STOCK

Hutchinson

McMaster

of

of Chicago

6s Co.,

Inp,

VINCENT T.

Smith, Burrls A Oo,

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34

Mr.

&

Mrs.

&

Mr.

F, McLaughlin,
McLaughlin, Reuss & Co., New York City;
George V. Hunt, McLaughlin, Reuss & Co., New York City

John

Mrs.

Mr.

Mac

Bond Traders Club of

Chicago

JAMES

Northern

Geyer

H.

Kneeland

LaPAK,

&

LEE. ARTHUR D.

&

RAYMOND

LEE.

F.

•

Ellis

Blunt

Simmons

&

JOSEPH M.

M:

Daniel

Rice

F.

and

Company

William

LA

LAWRENCE

ROCCO,

Lamson

Bros.

C.

Spink & Co.

Miller,

LILLIG,
LAWLOR. Jr.,

Hornblower

LEASON,
Leason

LEASON,
Leason

&

&

Weeks

Co.,

H.

A.

Harrison

MARSHALL,
&

Co.

LINDER, EVAR L.
Paine, Webber, Jackson

G.

LONGSTAFF.

Co., Inc.

HARVEY
&

Carter

WILLIAM J.

HARVEY

EDWARD

Rogers

GLEN

LYNCH,

&

E.

MATZ.

Inc.

L.

&

Co.

&

REYNOLDS,

Co.

McCOTTER, DONALD C.
Lee Higginson Corporation
F.

S.

Moseley

"■

SECURITY

DEALERS

F.

Yantis

S.

McGREEVY,
Bache

R.

PROMPT

—

Glore,

&

RING,

&

James J.

We

clear for

dealers

New York

-

Cleveland.

Chicago

-

«IO. U. y PAT

Loans

and

Securities

De¬

-

Salomon

RYAN,

&

Company

Teletype: CV 240.

MILLER,

CHARLES

M.

Largest

MILLER, SAUL R.
Miller, Spink & Co.,

Bank

6ILBERMAN, NATHAN M.
Straus, Blosser & McDowell

Fuller

&

Rogers & Tracy,

Inc.

The First

MOELMANN, EDWIN J.
Hallgarten & Co.

David A.

Co.

&

J.
Inc.

Noyes & Co.

JOSEPH

SMOLE,

C.

,

,

A.

The First National Bank

Co.

of Chicago

SORENSON, OLAF A.

D.

MOREY

Fahnestock

National Bank

Leason

of Chicago

&

Co.

WILLIAM

SPANIER,

SAMUEI.

&

Co.,

Inc.

SPARKS, ALLEN K.

SADLER, FRED ».
Sadler

M.

GEORGE W.

SMITH,

M.

&

RICHARD

Weld & Co.

White,

A.
Co.

W.

Simmons

&

SKEPNEK, Jr., PAUL

Straus, Blosser & McDowell
SACHNOFF,

Inc.

Ellis

SINCLAIR,
Hutzler

GERALD

A.

SACHNOFF.

Mullaney, Wells & Company

Ohio's

Inc.

A.
&

ARTHUR

Cruttenden

Of#.

partment.

Swift, Henke & Co.

Reynolds & Co.

Blunt

MERTON

Jr.,

William

SACCO,

W.

SIMMONS, RICHARD

Stuart &

Halsey.

& Co.

Harrison

BRADFORD

SHERWOOD. DONALD B.

J.

Harris,

&

Bros.

RUSSELL,

HENRY P.

Blair

CLARKE

ROOB, EDWARD

MIEHLS, DON G.
William

SHAW,

Hickey & Co., Inc.

MEYER, JULIEN L.

MEYERS,

Carter H.

Wis.

ROGERS, JOHN C.

McNulty & Company

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Address

SHALES, GLENN S.

Milwaukee,

Company,

Fairman

Company,

Byllesby and

Incorporated

Sills, Fairman & Harris, Inc.

Salomon Bros. & Hutzler

Pittsburgh

-

H. M.

ROBINSON, ELDRIDGE

Co.

MELL, HERMAN G.
Smith, Barney & Co.

in

SENNOTT, WILLIAM J.

HERBERT A.

Sills,

Jr., WILLIAM J.

Aurora, 111.

SELLERS, PAUL A.
The Illinois Company
Inc.

Thomson & McKInnon

McHUGH, JOHN D.

CLEARINGS

&

ROBERTSON,

Co.

Forgan

Co.,

Inc.,

SCOTT, MORTIMER W.
Scott & Wyandt, Incorporated

LEO
&

First National

SCHWANZ, F, DAVID
Schwanz & Company,

Inc.

Co.,
P.

WILLIAM T.

Riley
W.

Incorporated

Co.,

The

Chicago

M. Rice & Co.

RILEY,

Co.

JOHN A.

&

McGREGOR,

SPECIALIZED

&

GEORGE

of

RICE, ROBERT M.

McFARLANE, LAURENCE B.
McGHIE. Jr.,

T.

Emerich

Ames.

FRANK J.
Bank of Chicago

SCHUERINGS,

G.

&

* >

Co.

CLARENCE R.
Barclay Investment Company

Company

EDWARD

Company

GIRARD

SCHOLZ,

REVELL, RAYMOND F.
White, Weld & Co.

ERNEST A.

Cruttenden

Emerich

Ames,
RENIER.

F.

Wayne Hummer &

REED, ROY S.

Co.

&

Co.

SCHOETTLER,

Securities

First

Milwaukee

T.

Rothschild

&

T.

Company

RANDALL, RALPH

H.

Company,

CHARLES

F.

MAYER,

Bennett

WILLIAM

Marshall

Illinois

G.

Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.
SCHMITZ, JOHN F.
Daniel F. Rice and

RAMING. H. PHILIP
Glore, Forgan & Co.

HENRY T.
Doyle, O'Connor & Co.

RALPH S.

Tracy,

The

MATHEWS,
Curtis

&

PHILIP A.

James

Inc.

The

SAWERS, ARTHUR R.
Chesley & Co.
SCHEUER, CHARLES

Hutchinson

FRED

RAHN,

F.
Co.

MARR, LAWRENCE N.
Ames, Emerich & Co., Inc.

Inc.

Co.

&

Co.

P.

HENRI

McMaster

Incorporated

JEROME
&

&

A.

Swift, Henke <fc Co.
PULVER,

Fuller

A.

Harriman

JOHN P.

POLLICK,

L.

Byllesby and Company,

MARQUARDT,

LIENING, EDWARD

Mrs.

SANDBERG, LAWRENCE
Norris & Kenly

W.

GEORGE

ROBERT
Cruttenden & Co.

Incorporated

Co.,

MAHER, RAYMOND A.
A. C. Allyn & Company,

Sachs & Co.

Goldman,

Co.

&

Mr.

Welch, Sincere and Company, Chicago;
Hammell, Taylor & Co., Chicago

Brothers

Brown

Company

Incorporated
LANNAN, J. PATRICK

H.

PODESTA,

MAGEE, MARTIN

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

Edward

PETRIE,

H.

Trust

MADARY, HARRY

(Continued from page 83)

Mrs.

Elmer W.

LEAN,

The

&

October 8, 195J

Thursday,

F.

Co.

A.

Carlton & Co.

MOFFAT, DONALD L.
C.

F.

Chllds

and

Company

MONTGOMERY, THOMAS R.
Glore, Forgan & Co.

We

pleased to

ure

MOON, RUSSELL F.
Shearson, Hammlll

announce

&

Co.

CORPORATE AND MUNICIPAL

MORRIS, ORION

that

have

we

now

started

our

Continental

32nd year

Trust
at

the

same

address ivith the

firm

same

name

MORTON,
The

and the

same

Co.

business

IN

UNLISTED

of

National

FRED

SECURITIES

G.

Company

HOWARD

C.
&

Co.

|
Members

Nat'l

Members

New

ESTABLISHED 1922
Association
York

of

Security

Securities

Dealers

DIgby 4-6320

42

&

HOURWICH

MULLER, DONALD R.
Harris, Upham & Co.

JOHN J. O'KflNE JR. & CO.

i

Wis.

McMaster Hutchinson

SECURITIES

Bank

Chicago

Milwaukee

Milwaukee,

MORTON.

SPECIALISTS

Illinois

NEW

SECURITY DEALERS

YORK

ASSOCIATION

MURI'IIY, ROBERT A.
Blair, Rollins & Co., Incorporated

Dealers

27 WILLIAM

NELSON, HARRY L.
Blyth & Co., Inc.

Association

Broadway, N. Y.

CO.

Members

MURPHY, JAMES H.
Dempsey-Tegeler Co.

HEW YORK 5, N. Y.

STREET

WHitehall 44185

NELSON, WILLIAM A.
Bear, Stearns & Co.

Bell

System Teletype NY 1-2815

NEWELL, EDWARD F.
Langill & Co.
NEWPART, CHRIS. J.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
NIEBUHR,
Leason

MARKETS in ALL

and

Co.,

Inc.

SPECIALISTS

Inc.

O'BRIEN, EDWIN P.
Sincere

BANK

>

LOWELL

&

NORTON, LAWRENCE H.
Remer, Mitchell <fc Reitzel.
and

Company

O'CONNOR, HUGH J.
Betts, Borland & Co.

INSURANCE

I N
'

OLDERSHAW, HALLOCK B.
Blyth & Co., Inc.

STOCKS

O'ROURKE,
J.

P.

JOHN

O'Rourke

Uranium

Securities

P.

&

Co.

O'ROURKE, Jr., JOHN P.
J.

P.

O'Rourke

PARKER.

EDWIN L. TATRO COMPANY
50

Telephone DIgby 4-2420

c.

PECK,

&

ARTHUR

Falrman

PEARSON,
W.

BROADWAY, NEW YORK 4, N. Y.

Teletype: NY 1-3430

Sills,

Co.
W.

&

Harris,

Inc.

TELLIER & CO.

DON C.

Gibson

EDGAR

W. C. Gibson

&

Co.

1

A.

EXCHANGE PL.,

Telephone DElaware 3-3801
Direct

BALTIMORE

—

BOSTON




—

Telephone
HARTFORD:

PERRIGO,
ENTERPRISE

7846

CHARLES

Hornblower

PETERSON,

Kidder,

&

Jr.,

JERSEY CITY 2, N. J.

& Co.

R.

GEORGE

Peabody & Co.

N. Y. Phone DIgby 4-4500

Teletype J Cy 3887

Weeks

A,
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Convention Number

*
Vr

•

Frank

C.

White,

National Quotation Bureau, Inc., San Francisco; Elmer L. Weir, J. Barth
Francisco; Tom Price, McAndrew «£ Co., Incorporated, San Francisco

San

STEFFES, JAMES W.
Swift, Henke & Co.

WEBER,

STEPHENS, DONALD B.

WELCH, EDWARD H.

Cruttenden

&

A.

Co.

G.

WARREN

J.

Mr.

Co.,

&

The First National Bank of Chicago

and Company

Incorporated

STEWART, JOHN C.
The First Boston Corporation

WERNECKE. RICHARD A.

STONER, HARLEY H.
Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc.

WIERENGA, RICHARD
Smith, Barney & Co.

WORTMAN,

STRAIT, WALTER L.

WILKIN, JOHN N.

WOUK, THEODORE E.

Swift,

Henke

&

Ames,

Co.

Baker,

STRAUS, FREDERICK W.
Straus, Blosser & McDowell
Rice

F.

&

Walsh &

WOOLARD, FRANCIS C.
Kneeland

Inc.

Co.,

G.

Company

Weeden

&

National

Aurora, 111.

Bank of

Chicago

A.

Jr.,

A.

Woolfolk

The

RAYMOND W.
Remer, Mitchell & Reitzel, Inc.

Co.

Company

WILLIAM

Incorporated

National

Villere &

J.

MINETREE, JOS. P.
Steiner, Rouse & Co.

WEIL, JOS. H.

MORSE, RICHARD

WEIL,

Well Investment

C.
in New

Investment

Co.

Friedrichs

and

Labouisse, Friedrichs

and

Company
WHALEN,

J.

THOMAS

Howard, Weil,
Company

Inc.

WHEELER,
Wheeler

MACRERY B.
&

Woolfolk, Inc.

RODDY,

WOOD,

TORNGA, HERMAN
DeYoung-Tornga Co.

SANFORD, J. B.

TRITSCHLER,
Reynolds

TRUE,

White.

Mich.

Schwelckhardt

FRED

shober

&

ZOLLINGER,
Scharff

Company

&

M.

Jr., JOHN
Jones, Inc.

J.

G.
Co.

&

EDWARD

Meulen

JOHN
&

Weeden

&

Wis.

^

Co.

Secretary-Treasurer: C. Homer Kees, Ducournau & Kees.
National Committeemen: Wm. Perry Brown,

Members

of the New

York Stock

Exchange

Newman, Brown &

Co., Inc.; Arthur J. Keenan, St. Denis J. Villere & Co.

THOMPSON

M.

Allyn and Company, Inc.

WALKER,

Pflugfelder & Rust

Vice-President: John J. Zollinger, Jr., Scharfj & Jones, Inc.
W.

Co., Racine,

WAHLQUlST, GEORGE R.
WAKELEY.

Weil, Labouisse, Fried¬

President: G. Shelby Friedrichs, Howard,
richs & Company.

V.

Co.

&

Nuveen

MEULEN,

John J. Zollinger, Jr.

Shelby Friedrichs

C.

Harry O. Valleau & Co.

C.

Woolfolk

Co.

E.

Simpson

VALLELY.

A.

ROBERT

Co.

VALLEAU, HARRY O.

Ver

FRANK B.
Smith-Wood

P.

JAMES

Webber,

John

&

M.

WOOLFOLK,
Sanford

&

SCHWEICKHARDT, ERWIN

Co.

Rogers & Tracy, Inc.

Ver

Hattier

A.

Inc.

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

UNGEHER,

VACHA,

E.

& Jones,

ALEXANDER

&

CHAS.

Merrill

JAMES

Scharff

GEORGE R.
&

Orleans

Co.

RAPIER. EDWARD D.

McCormick

New

OGDEN, FRED N.

Glore, Forgan & Co.

TORREY,

New

Co.

WEIL, Jr., WALTER H.
Howard, Weil, Labouisse,

LESTER J.

Rapids,

in

ROSWELL J.

Weil

TORGERSON, FRANK 8.
Link, Gorman, Peck & Co.

Grand

Bank

ERNEST C.

Denis

WILLEM, MICHEL A.
Beer & Company

THORSEN,

F.

A.

Whitney National Bank of
St.

NUSLOCH, GEORGE H.
Nusloch, Baudean & Smith

and Company,

Hibernia

VILLERE,

W.

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

NEWMAN, MORRIS W.
Newman, Brown & Co.,

H.

JAMES

Orleans

NEWMAN, LEON
Kohlmeyer & Co.

Security Traders Association

Shober

THIBODEAUX, PAUL J.

Orleans

New Orleans

&

LAWRENCE

STOUSE,

M.

CHARLES

Merrill

Tegtmeye*»*& -Co.

Allyn

SMART,

National American Bank of New Orleans

ROBERT J.

C.

KINGSTON, WALTER D.
W. D. Kingston & Co.

Newman, Brown & Co., Inc.

The National Bank of Commerce

&

Carter H. Harrison & Co.

TERO,

SHOBER, JOHN B.

MANION,

YOUNG,

SWIECH, STANLEY
Stanley Swiech and Company
Wm. H.

SCRANTON, JACK

Barrow, Leary & Co., Shreveport

SWANSON, KNUTE G.

TEGTMEYER,

KERRIGAN, JOHN E.
Newman, Brown & Co., Inc.

KINGSBURY, J. W.
Jackson, Miss.

LOUQUE, WM. N.

SUNDELL, ROY B.
Julien Collins

Caughlin, Edward J. Caughlin & Co., Philadelphia;
Oetjen, McGinnis & Company, New York City

Mr. Henry

&

LEARY,

WYANDT, OWEN H.
Scott & Wyandt, Incorporated

Langill & Co.

WILLIAMS, ROBERT C.

The First National Bank of Chicago

GLEN R.
R. Wortman & Co.,

CHAPIN N.
Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.

WILLIAMS, GEORGE P.

and

Mrs. Edward J.

WRIGHT,

Rogers & Tracy, Inc.

STRONG, ORVILLE H.

Co.

&

The First

Co.

WILLIAMS, ANDREW R.
\

STRAUSS, ROBERT
Daniel

Emerich

&

Mrs.

WOLF, LEONARD J.
A. G. Becker & Co.

35

i,

WINTERHALTER, LEROY F.

Becker & Co., Incorporated

Sincere

.**■'

Alternates: Gilbert Hattier, Jr., White, Hattier & Sanford; G.

Price

61

BROADWAY,

NEW

YORK

6,

N.

Y.

Crane, Arnold & Crane.

FRED M.

Chesley & Co.
WALLACE,

RICHARD

J.

Doyle,

O'Connor

&

(Members

O'Connor

in New

Orleans unless otherwise

ADAMS.

&' Co.

LEON

Nusloch,

ALVIS,

and

Arnold

Smith

Jackson,

Telephone BOwling Green 9-4900

Miss.

H. WILSON

ARNOLD,

Baudean' &

LESTER
Comany,

A.

Alvis

indicated)

Co.

WAUCHOP, RAYMOND C.

Doyle,

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

-

& Curtis

Paine, Webber, Jackson
WALSH, THOMAS D.

&

Crane

BOUCHE, LOUIS J.
White, Hattier & Sanford
BREAUD, Jr., J. CHARLES
Newman, Brown & Co., Inc.

New Issue

BROWN, WM. PERRY
Newman, Brown & Co.,
G.

CRANE,

Inc.

PRICE

Arnold & Crane

For

DANE, HAROLD

CORPUS CHRISTI REFINING COMPANY

Banks, Brokers and Dealers

John Dane

DANE, JOHN
DE

LA

&

Co.

FRANCIS

DOYLE,

FOREIGN

CLAUDE

Derbes

(Par Value 10 Cents Per Share)

Crane

&

DERBES,

820,000 Shares Common Stock

.

VERGNE, J. H.

Arnold

C.

SECURITIES

National Bank of Commerce in New

The

Orleans

DUCOURNAU, JAC. P.
Kees

Ducournau &

Price

$L50 Per Share

FEIBLEMAN,
T.

T.

JEFF
Company

J. Feibleman &

FRIEDRICHS, G. SHELBY
Howard, Well, Labouisse, Friedrichs

and

Company
JEREMY

GLAS, R.
Glas

&

HARDY,

Prospectus relating to the
stock of Corpus
Christi

Refining
may




52 Wall Street

Equitable

DIgby 4-8040

KEENAN,
St.
■
"

KEES, C.

Securities

Corp.

ARTHUR J.

Denis

J.

Villere

HOMER
Kees

Ducournau &

York

Stock

120 BROADWAY
NEW

YORK

5,

Exchange
WORTH 4-5300

TELETYPE NY 1-2525

N. Y.
LONDON:

HAWLEY, JACKSON A.

New York 5, N. Y.

New

Pierce, Fenner & Beane

HATTIER, Jr., GILBERT
White, Hattier & Sanford

V1CKERS BROTHERS

Com¬

be obtained
from the undersigned.
pany

Members

T.

Merrill Lynch,

common

MODEL, ROLAND & STONE

Company

FORD

20-24

Private

<Sa Co.

NORTHGATE HOUSE "

MOOREGATE, LONDON, E. C.

Teletype to

London,

2.

England

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THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

36

Mr.

Mrs.

&

Lex

Jolley,

Robinson-Humphrey

The

Company,

Inc.,

Atlanta,

and

Malinda

&

Josef

Mr.

C.

Pacific

Phillips,

M.

M. Freeman & Co., Inc.; Rubin Hardy, The First Boston
Corporation; John M. Hudson, Thayer, Baker & Co.; Robert
McCook, Hecker & Co.; Wallace H. Runyan, Hemphill, Noyes
& Co.; Joseph E. Smith, Newburger & Co.

Investment Traders Association

Of

Mrs.

Jolley

Philadelphia

JOSEPH

DORSEY,

members of Governing Board elected September 30th,

new

but

names

National

not available at press

were

Committeemen:

time.)

CHARLES

DOWNS,
Oakes

&

Smith,

E.

Newburger

&

Co.

E.

Company

FORREST

DUBLE,

&

Co.

H.

i

Jr., RUSSELL M.

ERGOOD,
Stroud

Co.;
John M. Hudson, Thayer, Baker & Co.; Charles L. Wallingford,
H. M. Byllesby and Company, Incorporated; R. Victor Mosley,
Stroud & Company, Incorporated; George J. Muller, Janney &
Joseph

R.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

Parrish

(Ten
'

Seattle

Company,

Northwest

&

Company, Incorporated

CHARLES

EULER,
Euler

J.

Hart

&

FAHRIG, Jr.,
Reynolds

HARRY

&

Colket

Penington,

Harold

F.

Scattergood,

Boenning & Co.; Henry C.
Welsh, Jr., Lilley & Co.; William J. McCullen, Hendricks &

M.

September 30,. 1953:

Expires:

Took Office:

October 1, 1953; Term

September 30, 1954.

&

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

Chas. L.

Wallingford

Edgar A. Christian

Joseph R. Dorsey

H.

A.

Riecke

&

Inc.

Co.,

ANDERSON, TOWNSEND
Bioren

Lewis

LEWIS

Ripley

8s

Incorporated

Co.,

AYRES,

PERCY
Merrill Lynch,

BAILEY, JR.,
,§
i/

George

Pierce,

Fenner

8s

Beane

A.

GEORGE

LEONARD
Weld

BARBER,
W.

Co.

&

Son

&

F.

P.

JOHN

Ristine

CRAM,

BENDER,

Charles L. Wallingford, H. M. Byllesby and Company,

^resident:

Incorporated.

J.

Joseph R. Dorsey, Merrill Lynch, Pierce,
,

Second Vice-President:

Edgar A. Christian, Stroud & Company,

Incorporated.

Samuel M.

Kennedy, Yarnall & Co.

Charles J. Brennan, Blyth & Co., Inc.;
Schmidt, Poole, Roberts & Parke; John P.
Kidder, Peabody & Co.; Albert H. Fenstermacher,

Governors:

Robert Brooks,

Dempsey,

&

SAMUEL

BORTNER,

Hallowell,
H.

&

BROOKS,

Blair,
J.

DICK,

DOERR.

Co.

Henry <B>.

Trading Department Invites Your Inquiries
On All Rhode Island Securities

Co.

Blyth

IOWN, LLOYD B.
L. Wright 8s
GEORGE

A. Webster

Open-end Phone to Boston

—

Lafayette 3-0610

Co.,

CALL, THOMAS
Lilley & Co.

The

Established 1900

NEW YORK &
AMERICAN

MIDWEST
STOCK

STOCK

EXCHANGE

Inc.

CAMPBELL, ROBERT J.

The

First Boston

&

HARRIS, RUSSELL A.

Inc.

HARRISON,
HART,

LEWIS

8s

Co.

C.

&

Hart

HEFFELFINGER, HARRY L.
Samuel

K.

HENSHAW,
First

CRAIG

HESS,

JOHN

E.

WILLIAM

Woodcock,

TELEPHONE UNION

1-4000

HEWARD,

Hess

&

Co.,

bell teletype pr 43

Sherrerd

RICHARD

Plymouth Cordage Co.

Electric Controller & Mfg. Co.

Arthur G.

Chapman Valve Mfg. Co.

McKee

& Co.

Scovill Manufacturing Co.

Ludlow Mfg.

Nicholson File Co.

Stanley Works

& Sales Co.

R.

&

We distribute buf do

not trade these issues. Others with

similar records are

always of interest to

us.

Co.
I

DIRECT PRIVATE WIRES TO

NEW YORK.

ST. LOUIS,

BRIDGEPORT.




HARTFORD AND WHITE PLAINS OFFICES

A.

J.

ALBERT J.
Caplan 8s Co.

&

„

;

,

CAROTHERS, Jr., JOHN C.
H. M. Byllesby and Company,
Incorporated

CARSON,
Rambo,

Inc.

Janney 8s Co.

Corp.

(ASSOC.)

PROVIDENCE 3, R. I.

change

JAMES

Butcher &

A.

Stoc

M.

Service)

HEWARD,

Inc.

Co.

Corporation

Phila.-Baltimore

(Armed

First Boston

Phillips &

WILLIAM

Securities

HEPPE,
Corp.

Co.

Co.,

R.

F.

B.

WILLIAM

&

GEORGE

ROBERT

CAPLAN,

15 WESTMINSTER ST.

Co.

Corp.

Company, Incorporated

CANTWELL, JOHN
Walston

Crouter 8s Bodine

FAVORITE ISSUES IN OUR CUSTOMER PORTFOLIOS

Henry B. Warner & Co.
EXCHANGES

JOSEPH
Close

8s

R.
Kerner,

& Beane

Incorporated

Inc.

GRANT

CAMPBELL, CHARLES J.
Dawkins, Waters & Co.,
Stroud &

Fenner

Nj

Company,

D.

CAMPION, RICHARD

MEMBERS

ROBERT

S.

Janney & Co.

G. H. Walker & Co.

Inc.

Company

HARDY, RUBIN

Co.

C. Dick Co.

DORSEY,

Dougherty & Co.

CAMPBELL, A.

8s

DONOVAN, ROBERT F.

ROBERT

Arthur

and

Montgomery, Scott & Co.

E.

Jr., JOHN H.
Rollins & Co., Inc.

Dolphin

BROWN, J. DORSEY
nJ. Dorsey Brown & Co., Baltimore

BURGESS,

Kuch

DeHaven & Townsend,

Co.

DOLPHIN, LEO M.

A.

Schmidt, Poole, Roberts & Parke

Our

Inc.

Laird, Bissell & Meeds

American Securities

Warner &

G.

Co.,

Eastman, Dillon 8s Co.

WILLIAM

JR.,

Lewis

N.

BENJAMIN

BROOKS,

G.

Euler

Co.

WILLIAM

8s

WM.

HAGER, MALVIN R.

Eastman, Dillon & Co.

BRENNAN, CHARLES
Blyth & Co., Inc.

Meter

M.

HAINES, FRANCIS J.
W. H. Newbold's Son

Riecke 8s Co.,

DERRICKSON,

&

ROBERT

DEMPSEY, JOHN P.
Kidder, Peabody &

F.

BROCK, ALEXANDER B.
Biddle, Whelen & Co.

RHODE ISLAND SECURITIES

A.

BRADLY, CHARLES C.

Drexel

Van

GRIFFITHS, W. LAWRENCE

&

Sulzberger

DENNEY,

BRITTON,

Hlscox,

GOODMAN,

B.

C.

Rambo, Close & Kerner, Inc.

Co.

Clark

E.

GREEN, HARRY
Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

DAVIS, EDMUND J.

Jones, Miller & Company

W.

Dana

CHARLES

GREENE,

Co.

BRADBURY, JOHN L.
Dolphin & Co.
E.

GESING,

8s

WALTER
Sherrerd

&

Harper & Turner,

DAVIS, ALBERT J.

H.

JR., ALFRED

BRACHER,

^

GORMAN, FRANK J.

HARRY

&

Incorporated

J.

DARBY, DONALD W.

Co.

Stein Bros. & Boyce

&

P.

Co.

JR.

Harrison

Dillon

Company,

Cluett

Burton,

Butcher

Dackerman

C.

DAFFRON,

BOWERS, THOMAS A.

Secretary: James G. Mundy, Stroud & Company, Incorporated.

of

Harry

Co.

Eastman,

Yarnall

G.

H.

BOOTHBY, Jr., WILLARD S.

Fenner & Beane.

Board

HERBERT

&

&

M.

Co.

B.

FRANK

GEMENDEN,

CHAUNCEY

DACKERMAN.

Armed Service

Drexel

Co.

HAROLD
Kennedy & Co.

Co.

BODINE, PAUL W.

First Vice-President:

Treasurer:

&

&

FOX, HOLSTEIN DcHAVEN
A. C. Wood, Jr. & Co.

CUNNINGHAM,

J.

Bender

BLIZZARD,

&

Stroud &

ARTHUR

Arthur

JOHN

Clark

JAMES

Brooke

Inc.

GABLE, ALBERT G.

CUMMINGS, JOSEPH

Reynolds & Co.

Samuel M. Kennedy

2nd,

W.

Stroud

Wurts, Dulles & Co.

Co.

Co.,

D.

Sparks & Co.

FOG ARTY,

H.

G.
&

&

WALTER

FOARD, ALLAN

CORSON, SPENCER L.
Elklns, Morris & Co.

BELL, WILLIAM

James G. Mundy

E.

Incorporated

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
COMPTON, GEORGE S.
Compton & Wharton

Co.

BARNES, JOSEPH O.
Kennedy & Co.
BARTON,

&

COLWELL,

NEWTON

B.

Newbold's

H.

Company,

COLFER, LAWRENCE J.
Rufus Waples 8s Co.
Walston

M.

Yeatman

FLYNN,

COLLINS, Jr., JOHN T.
(Honorary)

Co.

&

'

BAILEY,
White,

&

Co.

(Honorary)

8s Co.

COLLINS, JOHN PATRICK

Bailey

A.

Caughlin

J.

CHRISTIAN, JOHN
Janney & Co.

EUGENE

Harriman

Edward

Stroud

Armstrong 8s Co.

ARNOLD,

EDWARD

J.

&

H.

Inc.

S.

FLEMING, GEORGE N.
Geo. N. Fleming & Co.

CAUGHLIN,

CHRISTIAN, EDGAR A.

Co.

&

ARMSTRONG, J.
J.

C.

W.

Co..

FREDERICK

Nash

Suplee,

Co.

ALBERT
8s

EDWARD

FIXTER,
J.

RAYMOND T.

Freeman

N.

FITCH,

Elected:

ALLEN,

M.

FISCHER,
H.

Eastwood.

H.

Co.

FANT, JOHN FITZSIMONS

FENSTERMACHER,

Alternates:

Inc.

..CARTER, Jr., FREDERIC P.
DeHaven & Townsend, Crouter & Bodine

1953

E. W. SNYDER & CO.
120

E.

Washington St.

SYRACUSE, N. Y.

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Number

&

Mrs.

Robert

W.

HISCOX, ARTHUR G.
Hiscox,

Van

Inc.

Lilley

HOERGER, CHARLES E.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

love,

E.

MANEELY,

MANN, NEVIN
L.

Charles

McATEE,

F.

Wood

&

Hecker

Co.

St

McCULLEN,

JOHN

National

Yarnall

Sheridan

(Honorary)

Bureau

FREDERICK

Paul

Bogan

Haven

&

W.
Co.,

St

Weeks

KLINGLER,

KNAPP,
Wurts,

St

Crouter

St

JOHN

and

B.

Company,

Incorpo¬

St

The

DONALD

First

Incorporated

RANDOLPH,

JOSEPH

McNAMEE,

ALFRED S.
Dulles & Co.

A.

JOHN

Woodcock,

Drexel

&

MEANEY, THOMAS J.

E.

THOMAS

KRUG,

Bioren

St

MILBURN,

B.

Hecker

Co.

MORLEY,

FRANK

MORRIS,

Stroud

St

Compton

J.

Company,

JOHN

Hess

Eastman,

A.

L.

RAYMOND

Co.,

C.

San

WHITLEY, FRANK L.

Francisco;

GEO.

Kennedy &

H.

Low

H.

Inc.

Company,

F.

Wilson,

GEORGE C.
C. Collings St Co.,

C.

Co.

MORRISSEY,

M.

F.

Penlngton, Colket St Co.

F.
LA

Ristine

P.

RASH,

W.

E.

WOOD, 2nd, RICHARD

Aspden, Robinson St Co.

Wright, Wood & Co.

St

St

Co.

MOSLEY,

R.
St

Stroud

Co.

ROBERT

Miller

RUDOLPH,

Inc.

VICTOR
Company, Incorporated

RUNYAN,

MULLER, GEORGE J.
Janney St Co.

ST. C.
Klrkland & Grubbs

JOSEPH

Jenks,

LAWRIE, WILLIAM N.
First Securities Corporation

MUNDY, JAMES G.
Stroud
&
Company,

LESCURE, JAMES H.
W. H. Newbold's Sons

MURPHY, JOHN A.
Reynolds St Co.

&

Co.

WALLACE

Hemphill,

H.

E.

J. Sailer

St

The

Co.

Bankers

Butcher & Sherrerd

SCATTERGOOD, HAROLD F.

Incorporated

Boenning

St

C.

Boston;
Southwest

(New

York)

Hole:

Tie:

One

Hole—

William

Patten,

on

York

George

Reuss

Hunt,

New

Egan,

First

City.^

Securities

Corp.

WALTER

Blind

,

Bogey:

Jack

California Co., San Francisco;

K.

liam

J.

Burke,

ZUBER, ETHAN G.

May

&

Inc., Boston.

Suplee, Yeatman St Company, Inc.

SCHULER,
The

RUSSELL

C.

Boston

Corp.

First

PERRY N.

SELHEIMER,

MARKETS for Dealers everywhere

First

Securities

SERVICE,

E.

Battles
We

Industrial-Utility
Insurance

-

Bank

particularly invite
inquiries in:
HARDWARE

SPRING

ASSOCIATED
CONN.

LT.

POWER

&

Municipal

EMHART

LANDERS

Securities

MFG.

HARTFORD

NEW

F.

CO.

ELECT.
&

LIGHT

C.

Corporation

Merrill

SMITH,

1891

ARNOLD

Company,

CHARLES

Lynch,

your

AMERICAN

CONNECTICUT POWER

State &

SHAW,

St

SOUTH'N NEW

Pierce,

JOSEPH

Fenner

&

Beane

E.

Newburger & Co.
HARRY

SNYDER,
Yarnall

St

STREET,

B.

UNDERWRITERS

Co.

PHILLIPS

CO.

ENG. TEL.

COBURN & MlDDLEBROOK

B.

SULZBERGER,

Hollowell,

SUPLEE,

GEORGE

Yeatman

A.

TALCOTT,

N. Y. Tel. DIgby 4-6713*

Niantic

Norwich

Worcester

Boston Tel. HUbbard 2-3780*

Manchester, Ct.

•Direct

Hartford-New




Boston

DISTRIBUTORS

W.

Chas. W. Scranton

Co.

&

Co.

Members New York Stock Exchange

Z.

St

Company,

Providence

Springfield, Mass.

Portland, Me.

W. Wardsboro, Yt.

TERRELL,

York-Boston' 'Phones

THOMAS,
F.

P.

TILGE,

Inc.

NEW HAVEN

St Co.,

Inc.

New York REctor

2-9377

•

Bell Teletype NH 194

Co.

CLAYTON
St

H.

Co.

Danbury

ROY C.

Ristine

St

LEWIS

H.

Hemphill,

7

Taggart

RAYMOND L.

St

Drexel

Reynolds

New Haven

•

S

Sulzberger & Co.

WILLIAM

Suplee,

Charles

Trumbull Street at Pearl

Teletype HF 464

DEALERS

TAGGART, CHARLES A.

INCORPORATED

New York

•

First Boston Corporation

SUNSTEIN, JR., LEON
Gerstley, Sunstein St

Bell

1953

P.

VEEDER-ROOT

Hartford Tel. 7-3261

Sixty-Second Year

Inc.

BRITAIN MACHINE

RUSSELL MFG.

100

Our

Noyes

Co.

St Co.

Bridgeport

New London

Wil¬

Gannon,

SCHREINER, WILLIAM McE.
F. J. Morrissey St Co.

CONNECTICUT

First

Co.,

&

SCHAUFLER, CHARLES A.
Schaffer, Necker St Co.

Primary

San

A.

Co.

SCHAFFER, RUSSELL W.
Schaffer, Necker St Co.

One

on

Winton Jackson,
Co., Dallas.

McLaughlin,

Company

JOSEPH

ZERRINGER,

Score

Booby Prize:

HOWLE

Wellington

Steward,

Higgins,

Blyth & Company, Seattle; James
Maguire, J. B. Maguire & Co., Inc.,

Co.

Smith Co.

ZELLER,

RUDOLPH

SANDER,

W.

YOUNG,

JACKSON

Score

Lowest

YEATMAN, Jr., POPE
Suplee, Yeatman St Company, Inc.

J.

&

Three-way

YEAGER, WILLIAM F.
Hecker St

James

Johnson

Rahn, The Illinois Company,
Chicago.
/

St Co.

Noyes

A.

SAILER,

mu¬

List):

Fred

YEATTS, ALBERT H.

A.

LAUT,

MICHAEL

a

Blue

Birdies:

Highest

D.

Stroud St Company, Incorporated

P.

Company

&

the

Francisco.

WURTS, JOHN W.
White, Weld & Co.

Inc.

MICHAEL J.
Biddle, Whelen & Co.

J.

Morrissey St Co.

Jones,

ALLYN R.

Hutton

J.

MORRISSEY,

LAND, C. EDWARD

FRANK

Most

Incor¬

ROSS,

JOHN

LAMB,

(awarded to
by

Winton Jackson, First Southwest
Company, Dallas.

WILLIS,

J. LESLIE
Rollins & Co.,

man

WILLIS,

G.

ALFRED J.
M.
Byllesby
and

Walter

Walter Gorey,

Gross

nicipal
COIT

Blum,

E.

Co., Inc., San

Co., San Francisco.

Co.
E.

John

Company,

Ernest
&

—

Johnson

Francisco;

California

Slocumb

C. Gorey

Co.

Bu¬

Team

Wilson,

Francisco;

Brush,

(cup given by

Francisco

San

First

WHITEHEAD, WILLIAM
Camden, N. J.
St

Stone,

Quotations

Stewart,

Higgins,

Egan,

porated

&

San

James

D.

Schmidt, Poole, Roberts St Parke

St

Daily

reau):
&

WILLIAMSON,

ROGERS, H. WHITNEY
Elkins, Morris St Co.

A.

Low Team Prize

National

Co.

ROBINSON, ELLWOOD S.

Blair,

cago.
Third Low Net: Ernest E.

Wright &

ALFRED

Bioren

RODGERS,

JOSEPH E.
& Wharton

U. S. Army

Incorporated

Inc.

IRWIN

Dillon

John

Net:

Stone, Moore & Co., Denver.

Inc.

B.

Company,

St

CLIFFORD

WILLARD

RICE,

Inc.

Co.

St

LACHMAN, Jr., CARL
Eastman, Dillon & Co.
LAIRD,

Fund,

Wellington

Co.

Incor¬

Company,

Company, Inc.

WELSH, Jr., HENRY
Lilley St Co.

G.

JOSEPH S.
Miller & Co.

Jones,

and

Low

Clarke, John W. Clarke, Inc., Chi¬

L.

Company,

RENNEISEN,
KNOB,

WELLS,

WISTER
Incorporated

L.

St

REMINGTON,

Soliday St Co.

Hopper,

&

Arthur

REILLEY,

Inc.

CHARLES

Co.

Corporation

Net: r;Pete
KosterWilliston, Bruce &

R.

Second

Inc.

WELLER, JOHN F.

WILLIAM

Stroud

Co.,

HENRY B.
Henry B. Warner St Co., Inc.

Co.

Kerner,

ROMEYN

&

Higgins,

&

Co., Portland.

Byllesby

WILLIAMS,

M.

Boston

Co.

Warner &

Co.

&

Low

J.

mann,

Lilley & Co.

Yeatman

Raffel

First

WILLIAM

WARNER,

Co., Inc.

McLEAR, WALTER B.
Woodcock, Hess St Co.,

F.

Suplee,

M.

Swain

Incorporated

CHARLES

Close

QUINTARD,

RAFFEL,

McGARVEY, Jr., JOHN N.

McLEAN,

f

Co.

Company,

Rambo,

JAMES

3rd,

Byllesby

Martin

KIELY, Jr., JERRY J.

Stroud

M.

rated

S.

Townsend,

&

H.

Stew-

James

porated

C.

&

PREGGEMEIR,

Co.

Gross:

Johnson

San Francisco.

WARNER, ALFRED S.

SAMUEL K.
Phillips St Co.

Fahnestock

St

H.

W.

FRED

Low

art^Wilson,

Co.

WALLINGFORD,

Jr.,

PniLLIS,

Lynch
Barney

McFARLAND

Inc.

Bodine

Baker,

&

m.

McFADDEN, JOHN P.

Smith,

KETCHEM, WILLIAM
De

Paul

Valley, Idaho

First

DAVID W.

Henry B.

Inc.

EDWARD J.
Phillips St

K.

Samuel

St

WALLACE,

Inc.

K.

PHILLIPS,

St

VOORHEES,

Company,

PHILLIPS,

J.

William

Mcdonald,

Co.

KERSLAKE,

JOHN

Wellington Fund, Camden, N. J.

M.

SAMUEL
St

St

Sun

Devine St Co.

C. J.

T.

GORDON

PFAU,

Samuel

Co.

JOHN

St Co., Incorporated

VEITH, FRANK H.

M.

PARSLY, L. FULLER
Parsly Bros. & Co.,

WILLIAM J.
& Eastwood

Hendricks

B.

Quotation

KENNEDY,

Co.

Stroud

McCULLOUGH,

F.

PARKER, JOHN E.
H. A. Riecke & Co.,

Co.

JOYCE, THOMAS J.
Woodcock, Hess & Co., Inc.

Boenning

Schmidt, Poole, Roberts & Parke

McCOOK, ROBERT

JUSTICE, FLOYD E.
Kidder, Peabody St
KEARTON,

PAIRMAN,

Co.

NSTA Golf Tournament

Incorporated

UNDERWOOD, J. FREDERICK

Co.

Drexel

R.

St

McCAULLY, ARMOUR W.
Hallowell, Sulzberger & Co.

E.

Peabody

Kidder,

R.

Co.

&

GEORGE

ALFRED

Wright,

St

Co.

&

Co.

,

Harriman Ripley

Company

HENRY

O'SHEA,

McCANN, THOMAS J.
Gerstley, Sunsteln &

WILLIAM

Ristine

P.

O'Brien

Carr

ROBERT A.
Ripley St Co.,

St

TYRRELL, LEO D.

THOMAS

O'ROURKE,

Winners in the

Co.

Brothers Harriman

TREVINE, ROY
Inc.

Dackerman

C.

Harry

Sherrerd

St

McBRIDE,

Inc.

JOHN E.

Reynolds & Co.

JONES,

Collings & Co.,

Drexel

A.

JOHNSTON,

C.

JAMES J.

Butcher

STANLEY W.
Taggart St Co.,

JEFFRIES,

C.

&

HAROLD

Harriman

Co.

Jackson, First Southwest Company, Dallas

H.

TORRENS,

Necker &

Schaffer,

A.

BERNARD

Brown

Co.

O'BRIEN, JOSEPH F.

Newburger & Co.

JACOBY, Jr., LEWIS P.
Thayer, Baker & Co.

JENNINGS,

Co.

&

markman, joseph

Peabody St Co.

Kidder,

Scott

Stuart & Co., Inc.

Halsey,

&

NOWLAN, LAWRENCE J.

HARRY 5.

Montgomery,

ALMON

HUTCHINSON,

Incorporated

Company,

HUDSON, JOHN M.

Nash

N.

NECKER, CARL

FELIX E.

St

HOLMAN,

Thayer, Baker & Co.

H.

Winton

Gerstley, Sunstein
TODD,

NASH, HAROIJ) N.

j.

Snyder & Co.

Stroud

ROBERT O.
Smith, Barney & Co.

Hornblower & Weeks

'

Mrs.

&

TOBIAS,

MURPHY, JOHN W.

WILLIAM

Co.

MAGUIRE,

Weeks

St

&

thomas

Geo.

M?

HOLDSWORTH, ROBERT
Hornblower

Jr.,

LILLEY,
Co.,

St

Meter

Mr.

Reis, Seasongood & Mayer, Cincinnati

37

Waterbury

38

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Leonard

J.

San Francisco

Wolf,

A.

G.

Becker

&

C<^ Incorporated, Chicago

Mrs.

Mr.

&

Thursday, October 8, 1953

Sidney

J.

Sanders,

Foster

&

Secretary-Treasurer: Maury J. Kessler, Wells Fargo Bank & Un¬

Security Traders Association

MORAN,

ion Trust Co.

J.

San

Francisco

Holt

ABRAHAMSON,
VVeeden

&

ACHAKD.

RICHARD

Bacon

Co.

William

Dcnault

Staats

WILLIAM

BAKER, Jr.,

Thomas

Walter

Vicino

Maury J. Kessler

FRED

&

J.

J.

A.

hawk,

BENJAMIN

Bank

J.

H.

E.

William

R.

F. S. MOSELEY & CO.

Staats

Walston

&

J.

R.

Boston Stock

Midwest Stock Exchange

Exchange

Stone

Co.

ALBERT

MUNICIPAL

Strauss

Hooker

Si

Wells

Davies

&

COMMERCIAL

PAPER

BOSTON

>

NEW YORK

CHICAGO

.

INDIANAPOLIS

•

.

WORCESTER

G.

Si

Schwabacher

Oakland, Calif.

SCHAG,

WALTER

SHAFFT, CONRAD 0.
Shafft, Snook Si Cahn
SMITH, ROBERT L.
Hill, Richards Si Co.

J.

S.

Strauss

Si

SPULLER. Jr., LOUIS J.
Elworthy Si Co.

Co.

Company
CHARLES

Walter

C.

B.

Gorey

STEWART,

Co.

Wells

Fargo Bank

& Union

Trust

First

LAMPERTI, ANGELO
Lawson, Levy Si Williams

CHARLES

Co.,

LARKIN,

Incorporated

California

THOMAS,

FAULKNER.

TOWNSEND, DABNEY <Sl TYSON
ESTABLISHED

Members

New

York

Associate Members

and

1887

Boston

American

Stock

Stock

Exchanges
Exchange

MAY,

WILLIAM

Wulff, Hansen &

C.

EARLE

Wells

Fargo

Pierce, Fenner & Beane

BROOKS. D.

Davies & Co.

•'

*

Bank & Union

J.
Trust

ELMER

Barth

&

L.

Co.

Co.

WHITAKER, EMMET K.

FAZACKERLY, KENNETH
Irving Lundborg & Co.

Mclaughlin, jr., william
Blyth & Co., Inc.

FINNEGAN, JOHN FRANCIS

MoMAHON, J. B.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

STREET, BOSTON 5

Inc.

Co., Palo Alto, Calif.

McCLINTICK, JAMES E.

Co.

Co.,

Merrill Lynch,

WEBER,

WEIR,

Hannaford & Talbot

30 STATE

J.

J. Earle May &

&

WATTS, WILLIAM F.

MACRAE, Jr., COLLINS L.
Wulff, Hansen & Co.

Co.

Witter & Co.

Blyth

William R. Staats & Co.

WILLIAM

Company

EARL

VICINO, WALTER

LARZELERE, JOSEPH

E. F. Hutton & Company

M.

A.

Douglass, Vander Naillen & Co., Inc.

ENGLISH, GIFFORD M.

&

EMMETT

JAMES

Wilson, Johnson & Higgins

SULLIVAN, JOHN F.

Company

First California Company

Davies

B.

Co.

KAMMERER, GEORGE G.

EGAN, JOHN F.

FARRELL,

&

E.

Co.

jordan, hi, james o.
Heller, Bruce & Co.

Co.

&

Co.

SANDELL, RUDOLPH T.
Shuman, Agnew Si Co.

Company

WILLIAM

JR.,

Co.

Davis, Skaggs Si Co.

LEONARD

Becker

Trust

r.

Dean
A.

Union

Hooker Si Fay

JENKINS, ROBERT
Davis, Skaggs & Co.

First California Company

DREIFUS,

Bank &

ROBERSTON, Jr., BENJAMIN

Corp.

KESSLER, MAURY J.

DONDERO,

Fargo

RICIIMAN, ANTHONY J.

„

SECURITIES

Fay

MILTON

RICH, LOUIS

Co.

Boston

PAUL

Sutro

DAVIDSON, H. HODGE
Bailey & Davidson
MARTINI.

&

REINER,

leslie

First

KANE,

De

J.

Youngberg

RABER, WILLIAM

Frank Knowlton & Co.,

COSTELLO, JOHN S.
Trust

&

A.

Davies & Co.

of

JOHN

Stone

A.

Youngberg

American

AND

Company

Co.

CARSON, GEORGE F.

CORPORATE

S.

The

BUICK, JOHN E.

Underwriters and Distributors

Trust

Incorporated

HOWARD, McBURNEY

K.

RALPH

Trust

Co.,

QUINN,

HENRY

RICHARD

imhof, james

American

Co.

Hooker & Fay

Brush, Slocumb & Co.

FRANK

&

Si

HEFTER,

ISAACS.

BROWN,

McAndrew

Co.

QUINN, HUBERT J.

Williston, Bruce & Co.

Schwabacher Si

American Stock Exchange

&

HECHT, Jr., JOHN C.
Brush, Slocumb & Co.

J.

MEMBERS
New York Stock Exchange

Bruce

Schwabacher Si

&

&

HILL, Jr., HOUSTON

V

ROBERT

BOWYER.

Staats

A.

TOWELL, JAMES
Harris, Upham Si Co.

B.

Co.

Brush, Slocumb

Swift & Co.

EMIL

PRICE. THOMAS W.

Williston,

howard,

BOURNE.

Co.

Gorey Co.

F.

William

g.

Co.

BLUM, ERNEST E.

ESTABLISHED 1879

Henry

First California Company

&

&

RICHARD

TIKICH,

Co.

WILLIAM

II.

Bruce

I'ERENON, HENRY

Co.

Blyth & Co., Inc.
&

JOSEPH

BELLIZI,

&

howard

R.

HEWITT,

BELKNAP,

Pont

george

American

Youngberg

Strauss

S.

Williston,

Barth & Co.

HENNIG,
BEEBE,

du

HARKINS, CHARLES
Blyth & Co., Inc.

Higgins

J.

Stone

I.

gumbel,

Co.

&

J.
&

Dean Witter <5s Co.

BAUM, Jr.,

R.

PAYNE.

Walter C. Gorey Co.

Crocker First National

Vice-President: Walter Vicino, Blyth & Co., Inc.

J.

Co.

g.

gorey, walter C.

BARKER, STEWART 8.

President: Earl Thomas, Dean Witter & Co.

Si

JACKSON

Walter C.

Wilson, Johnson

Earl

Ford

herman

Francis

WILLIAM

R.

BAILEY,

WILLIAM
Collins

&

GIANTI, RICHARD

ELIZABETH

I

Co.

&

PALMER.

Carlos

San

Elworthy & Co.
(Honorary Member)
ACKRIDGE,

&

frese,

W.

Co.

O'REILLY, JOHN J.

ford, jack

unless otherwise Indicated)

&

MURPHY,

..

in

FRANK

Barth

Walston

ROSTER OF MEMBERS
located

Seattle

MORRILL, CLIFTON W.

Directors: John C. Hecht, Jr.,
Brush, Slocumb & Co.; William J.
Bailey, Wilson, Johnson & Higgins; William C. Faulkner, Wulff,
Hansen & Co.; Frank Bowyer, Schwabacher & Co.

(Members

Marshall,

Davis, Skaggs Si Co.
WOOD, LEWIS J.
First

Boston

'

Corporation
-

\

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UNLISTED SECURITIES & MUNICIPAL BONDS

J. B. MAGUIRE & CO., INC.
31 Milk

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for

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Municipal

Utility and Industrial Stocks
Direct

Private

A. M. Kidder &
Branches:

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Augusta, Me.

Bangor, Me.

Fitchbnrg, Mass.

Greenfield, Mass.

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Manchester, N. H.

Open-end Telephone Wire
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for

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New

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BOSTON:
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L.

Wallingford,

Dallas

.

H.

M.

Byllesby

Incorporated,

Company,

and

Security Traders Association

39

FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

THE COMMERCIAL and

Number

Charles

^

'

Mrs.

Philadelphia

&

Mr.

Wilbur

Krisam,

Geyer

BERNET, Jr., ALBERT E.
Schneider, Bernet & Hickman

BROWN, E. KELLY
E. Kelly Brown Investment

BIERDEMAN, WM. R.
First National Bank

BROWN,

of

Garrett

Worth

Ft.

EDMOND
and

&

BURT, C. NESOM
C. N. Burt & Company

Co.

CADE,

L.

SID
Lynch,

Merrill

Company, Inc.

CANAVAN,

Jr.,

BILIIEIMER.

&

Henry-Seay
BP

E.

W.

BROWN,
Dallas

Co.

JOSEPH B.

FORD.

Beer

Binford-Dunlap, Inc.
BLACK,

A.

JULIAN

BOIIAN,

IJRYCE,

Pierce

Rauscher.

Co.

&

Stayart

Hudjon,

Huguenin

Dumas,

Service

JOHN

Co.,

&

Inc.

EDWIN

CART WRIGHT,

Inc.

Merrill

F.

O.

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

STEPHEN E.
Shearson, Hammill & Co.

CASE,

T.

U.

(Continued

Rausqher, Pierce & Co.

Boothman

&

Inc.

JAMES
Rauscher, Pierce &s?Co.

Austin & Waggener

BUCKNER,

-

Co.

Sr., EARL T.

CARROLL,

Corporation

C.

B.

B.

CHARLES

&

Carothers

Walker,

Inc.

Co.,

&

BOOTHMAN, CLAUD O.

Carothers

EARLE E.

BUCHANAN,

WILLIAM L.

CAROTHERS,

CAROTHERS,

Garrett and Company,

>

Company

R.

Company

Investment

Fenner & Beane

Pierce,

JOHN L.

Rauscher, Pierce & Co.

Securities

Union

&

I^RUCK,

C.

Henry-Seay & Company
BOBO.

JACK P.

BROWN, JIM

York City

Co., Incorporated, New

on

page

40)

(Associate)

BOSTON,

THOMAS

Beer

Company

&

B.

BRADFORD,

John W. Turner

R. B. Smith

Taylor B. Almon

Carrol M. Bennett

HUGH
Southwestern Securities Company

BRANYON, ALLAN D.
Mercantile

Rauscher, Pierce & Co.

BRENT

W.

Dallas

Company

Kidder, Peabody & Co.

RUFUS

Eastman, Dillon

Secretary: R. B. Smith, Texas Bond

at

Bank

C.

Southwest

First

Vice-President: Taylor B. Almon,

National

ROY

BREAUX,

& Son.

President: Carrol M. Bennett, Dallas Rupe

& Co.

Founded

Reporter, Inc.

in

1865

••tit
Treasurer: John W. Turner,

Eppler, Guerin & Turner.

Governors: The officers and James W.
Winton

York, Boston, Midwest and

Members New

Stock

American

Davis, Davis and Company;

Exchanges

First Southwest Company; Sam Johnson,

A. Jackson,

Southwestern Securities Company.
National

Trading markets in

Committeemen; Carrol M. Bennett, Dallas Rupe & Son;
First Southwest Company; John L. Cana-

Winton A. Jackson,
van,
west

Rauscher, Pierce & Co.; James F. Jacques, First South¬
Company; Landon A. Freear, William N. Edwards & Co.,

Ft. Worth.

?

Alternate: Hugh

DIRECT

'

75

'PHONES to

Bradford, Southwestern Securities Company.

Elected: December, 1952;

England Bank, Utility and Industrial Stocks

New

Telephone:

NEW YORK

Took Office; January 1, 1953; Term Ex¬

Federal

Boston

Street,

Teletype:

Liberty 2-6200

BS 338

pires; December 31, 1953.
ROSTER OF MEMBERS
ALEXANDER,
R.

A.

T.

R.

Underwood & Co.,

Bond

Texas

Inc.

Reporter,

Inc.

(Associate)

•

^

New England

STATISTICAL DATA
Lowell

ALLEN,

ORVILLE G.
Allen & Company,

Keith

Inc.

Rauscher,
ASKEW,
Askew

Pierce &

LESLIE

BADER,
First

First

Dallas

Company

Newport

•

Branches:

Providence

•

Springfield

•

Taunt-on

New

England

SAMUEL J.
Securities Corporation
THOMAS

Jr.,

.

Company

I

Securities

CARROL M.
&

Rupe

Son

Since

1929

BENNETT,
H. STEWART
Southwestern Securities Company

BAILEY, C. ALFRED
Bailey, Scott & Company




Company

Southwest

BENNETT,

WALTER M.
Southwest

Jr.,

Equitable
BECKETT,

AUSTIN, Jr., FRANK E.
Walker, Austin & Waggener

•

Rupe & Son

BEARD,

Co.

&

JAMES

Dallas

Co.

ELLISON

Investment

Reed

BEARD,

ALMON, TAYLOR B.

New Bedford

HUGH

BASS,

Jr.,

Lynch,

•

SAN FRANCISCO

CHICAGO

PHILADELPHIA

NEW YORK

TRADING MARKETS

,

BAINES, J. D.

•

New York

•
•

IN 1952

9
#

•

the average

New Englander

CAnol 6-2610
.

Boston

HUbbard 2-8360
Hartford, Providence, Portland

Enterprise 9830

made

more

A. T. & T.

saved

more

spent

more

had

more

than the average

We

supplied

to

Teletype:

Boston 568-569

gas

American.

and electricity

help make this possible.

Your Doorway to trading markets

©MAY

i|
New England Securities

GANNON
INCORPORATED

STOCKS
161

727 Mo>v»chus«f!&
Avenue

*

&

BONDS

DEVONSHIRE

BOSTON

10.

STREET

MASS

31

MILK STREET,

{

BOSTON 9, MASS.

Telephone HAncock 6-8200

;

Members

New York und

Boston Stock Exchanges

M*sstt<!ut**R9

Springfield

•

Fitchburg

•

Worcester

in

40

Lou

THE COMMERCIAL

A.
&

FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

and

Gibbs, Laird, Bissell & Meeds, New York City; Mrs. & Mr. Paul W. Matthews, Matthews
Company, Toronto; Miss Olga Kocurek, Rauscher, Pierce & Co., San Antonio, Tex.;
James
P.
Cleaver, Goodbody & Co., New York City

Dallas

CLAYTON,

Security Traders Association

First

(Continued from page 39)

III,

B.

Bank

RAE

M.

Axe

Securities

CLARK, Jr.,
Dallas

Company

DICK

Union

COKE,

Securities

Company

Southwest

Company

Certificates of

C.

investing

KEITII

C.

Underwood

&

Co.,

Television

COWDRY,

their capital

Merrill

Shares

J.

Cromwell

BONDS

&vBeane

City

Custodian

W.

HERRING,

Company

MERRILL

Hammill

Dallas

City

Bond

Dallas

Dallas

HILGER,

at

Bank

Rauscher,

dealer

Reporter,

Inc.

&

&

Co.

Co.

*

S

(Associate)

SHEEHAN & COMPANY

Edwards & Co.

t"'v

Investment

and

Company

of

Texas

&

Beane

79 MILK

Merrill

ST., BOSTON 10, MASS.

Company

or

Keystone Company of Boston
50

Pierce

(Associate)

DAVIS, N. R.

Tke

M.

Dallas

DAVIS, J. EDWARD
Central

investment

DERRY

HOBBS, WILL
Rauscher, Pierce

DAVIS, JAMES WALKER

local

S.

Rupe & Son

(Associate)

Worth, Texas

Davis

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner

Telephones Liberty 2-1581

-

2

DAVISON, OLIVER E.
DEATON,

Congress iStreet, Boston 9, jMass.

E.

F.

FRED

Hutton

R.
&

Company

DEATON, Jr.. FRED. R.
Dallas Union Securities

DEGENER,

Co.

ARMIN

DENNARD, R.
Dallas

E.

Rupe

& Son

DENNING, STEVE
Garrett ahd

¥J15e

Company, Inc.

DeSHONG, HAROLD E.
Dallas Rupe

Bond Fund
OF

& Son

DICKEY, ERNEST E.
Rauscher, Pierce & Co.,

Lubbock

DICKSON, JOHN H.

BOSTON

First

National Bank

DODSON, J. H.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

Massachusetts Investors Trust

Co.

DUDLEY, MORRIS A.
Rauscher, Pierce &
DUNLAP, HUGH D.

Binford-Dunlap,

DAYTON HAIGNEY & CO,
INCORPORATED

DOLPH, GEORGE W.
Wood, Struthers &

Massachusetts Investors

Co.

75 FEDERAL

*

EDWARDS,
William

Ft.

WILLIAM

N.

Worth,

First

PJjodion PIand

Teletype BS

N.

Edwards

&

Co.,

New York

Texas

ELLIS, JOE

•

STREET, BOSTON

,

Inc.

EDELMAN, EDWARD
Locke, Locke & Purcell (Associate)

Growth Stock Fund

596

Telephone—WOrth 4-2463

W.

Southwest

Company

<

EPPLER, WILLIAM B.

f

Eppler, Guerin & Turner

ESTES, B. H.
R.

J.

Edwards, Inc.

EVANS, ROGER

Century Shares Tru St

Dempsey

&

Company

FERGUSON, ROBERT
Republic

National

R.

•

\

Dealers

Bank

FERRIS, JOHN D.
Ferris & Company

Canada General Fund

Southwestern

prospectus relating to the shares of

any of these separate
he obtained from authorized dealers or

Merrill

111

DEVONSHIRE

Company

61

YORK

Broadway

STREET

Dittmar &




South LaSalle Street

/

&

Beane

new england

Company

LOS ANGELES

210 West Seventh Street

securities

FREEAR, LANDON A.
Ft.

N.

Worth,

First

v

Specializing in
Fenner

W.

Edwards '&

Co..

Texas

GILBERT, JR., ROBERT

CHICAGO
120

Pierce,

EDGAR

GENTRY, DAVID T.
Eppler, Guerin & Turner

BOSTON
NEW

Lynch,

FRANKLIN,

William

VANCE, SANDERS & COMPANY

in

general market issues

Securities

FOSTER, ROBERT K.

investment funds may

and Brokers

FOLEY, BOB

-

A

GOAR,
First

National

R.

Bank

Southwest

Carothers

&

Carr & Thompson, Inc.
31

FRANK

Company

GOODRICH, D. E.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
GRANOWSKI,

Worth

GROVER C.

J.

National

William N.
Ft.

(iSeries iSl-$2~iS3~iS4)

your

Ft,

Company

Rupe & Son

HILGER, ALBERT
Co.,

First National Bank

•!

of

CUTTER, FRED C.

COMMON STOCKS
.

Prospectus from

Securities

HICKMAN, J. WESLEY
Schneider, Bernet & Hickman

Inc.

F.

&

Co.,

PHILIP L.

Union

CULLER, GEORGE W.
Texas

¥unc

&

&

REX

CROWE, CLARENCE E.
McCall, Parkhurst •& Crowe

(Series K1-K2)

Burt

of Texas

R.

Edwards

IIENRY, LOUIS B.
Henry-Seay & Co.

S.

Dallas Rupe & Son

CHARLES

Mercantile

STOCKS

N.

CLARENCE
N.

T.

Company

Co.

Auditor,

CROSSON,

PREFERRED

M.

Company

IIEMENWAY, W. P.

CROSSLEY, E. LYNN

(Series B1-B2-B3-B4)

&

IIATCHER, M. M.

& Son

&

JOHN

Burt

Shearson,

Management Co.

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner

CROMWELL,

N.

HARTMAN,

COYLE, JOHN J.

IN

William

Dallas

GEORGE

Investment

HENDRIX,

HANSEN, WALTER R.
Hugh W. Long & Co.,

H.

Dallas Rupe

Inc.

Inc.

CORNELL, Jr., JOHN B.

FUNDS

A.

Co.,

HAMILTON, WILLIAM

COOPER, GEORGE
Dittmar & Company

Participation in

INVESTMENT

A.

MANLEY

Hagberg &

HAMILTON,

First Southwest Company

R.

HENDRIX,

A.

First Southwest Company

COKE, Jr., OWEN S.
CONGDON,

HAGBERG,

Central

HALL, J. C.

DONALD

First

IIEMMINGSON,

R.

Hudson, Stayart & Co.. Inc.
CHOATE, ALGIE K.

GUERIN, DEAN
Eppler, Guerin & Turner

M.

COFFMAN, HAROLD

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

Stewart, San Francisco; Mr. & Mrs. Houston Hill, Jr.,1 ./. S. Strauss & Co., San Francisco;
M. Stewart,
Wilson, Johnson & Higgins, San Francisco; A. Shane McOmber,
Revel Miller & Co., Los Angeles

James

JOHN

National

CLIFTON,

Mrs. Tudi

Thursday, October 8, 1953

MILK STREET

BOSTON 9, MASS.
Telephone: HUbbard

2-6442

•

DORIAN

Co.,

Inc.

/
*

Teletype:

BS 328

Convention

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Number

George Dedrick,
N. Mex.; Mr. &

Joseph McManus & Co., New York City;
Mrs. Elizabeth Quinn, Albuquerque,
Mrs. Graham Walker, Joseph McManus & Co., New York City; Arthur P. Quinn,
Quinn & Co., Albuquerque, N. Mex.; Mrs. Hugh Bradford, Dallas

HORTON,

41

Hugh R. Schlicting, Wm. P. Harper & Son & Co., Seattle; Edward V. Vallely, John Nuveen
Chicago; Sidney M. Ruff in, Burgwin, Ruff in, Perry & Pohl, Pittsburgh;
Garnett O. Lee, Jr., Scott, Horner & Mason, Inc., Richmond, Va.

Co.

&

PAUL B.

Parkhurst &

McCall,

(Associate)

Crowe

HOUSTON, B. FRANKLIN
Dallas Union Securities Company

Mead, Miller & Co.
York

&

Co.,

Inc.

Co.,

Inc.

HUDSON, ROBERT S.

Stock Exchange

Stock

INSURANCE STOCKS

K.

Stayart

Hudson,

—Members—
New

American

JOHN

HUDSON,

Exchange

Hudson,

(Associate)

Stayart

&

PUBLIC UTILITY—MUNICIPAL—INDUSTRIAL

HUGUENIN, A. B.

Philadelphia-Baltimore Stock Exchange

SECURITIES

Dumas, Huguenin & Boothman

(Associate)

HUMPHREYS, MURRAY L.
Mercantile National Bank

Active Markets in Local Issues

Jr., WILLIAM

JACKSON.
First

Southwest

C.

Company

JACKSON,

WINTON A.
First Southwest Compainy

CARL M. LOEB,

esTAansHco

MEMBERS

Direct Private Wire to New York Correspondent

JACQUES,

RHOADES & CO.

First

JAMES F.

Southwest

Company

JOHNSON,
Telephones: Baltimore

—

LExington 9-0210
Bell

Teletype

New York

BA 270

—

—

WHitehall 3-4000

Cruttenden

Wires

Co.

&

Florida Securities Corp., St. Petersburg

Securities

Union

(ASSOC.)

STOCK

EXCHANGE

NEW YORK

SAM

Southwestern Securities Company

Dallas

STOCK EXCHANGE

EXCHANGE

Direct Private

JONES, HERBERT M.

.

iasa

YORK

BALTIMORE

Judson S. James & Co.

St., Baltimore 2, Md.

NEW

STOCK

PHILADELPHIA-BALTIMORE

JAMES, Jr., JUDSON S.

Ill E. Redwood

OF

AMERICAN

•

—

to

•

Chicago

French & Crawford, Inc., Atlanta

Company

D. ACHESON

KEELER,

Street Sales

Broad

Company

HENRY

KELLER,

Keller & Ratliff
Ft. Worth, Texas

Firm

KERR, Jr., BEN J.
(Associate)

Markets In

BAKER, WATTS & CO.

KIMBALL, CHARLES E.
Distributors

Group,

Inc.

KLECKA, JOE E.

SECURITIES

WASHINGTON

ESTABLISHED

KLINE,

WALTER

Garrett

and

S.
Members

Inc.

Company,

Carl M. Loeb,
our

Republic National Bank

Southwestern

Exchange

Securities Company

Maryland County and Municipal Bonds

First National Bank of Ft. Worth

1920

Johnston, Lemon & Co.

Listed and Unlisted Stocks and Bonds

LYNCH, WILLIAM F.
Lynch, Allen & Company, Inc.

Active Trading Markets in
Local

LYNE, III. LEWIS F.

Securities

Mercantile National Bank of Dallas

MEMBERS
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE

WILLIAM L.
Rauscher, Pierce & Co.

MADDEN,

PlilLADELPHIA-BALTIMORE STOCK EXCHANGE

MAILLOUX.

DISTRIBUTORS

-

Exchange
Stock Exchange

Stock

Government and Federal Land Bank Bonds

LASSATER, H. DAVID
LEWIS, A. V. (JACK)

UNDERWRITERS

Stock

Struthers & Co.

Wood,

Correspondent

ESTABLISHED

York

Associate Members American

LANGMORE, W. BANKART

Rhoades & Co.,

New York

New

Members Philadelphia-Baltimore

LAFFERTY, J. LEWELL
Direct Private Wire to

1900

First Southwest Company

-

DEALERS

BALTIMORE 3, MD.

Southwestern Securities Company

MALONEY, THOMAS

*

CALVERT & REDWOOD STREETS

MELVIN

E.

Rauscher, Pierce & Co.

Southern

•

Building, Washington 5, D. C.

.

Representative:

MANGRUM, JOHN E.
Southland Life Insurance Co.

Bell Teletype: WA 95 & WA 28

Telephone: STerling 3-3130
Branch Office:

Alexandria, Va.

(Associate)

Clarksburg,

W.

Va.

Baltimore—Mulberry 5-2600

Telephones: New York—CAnal 6-7162

MANNING, W. K.
Jell

Struthers & Co.

Wood,
MASON,

System Teletype—BA 395

A. J.

Republic National Bank
MAULDIN,
Fort

K.

K.
National

Worth

Bank

MAYES, HARLAND
Rauscher, Pierce & Co.
McCALL, HOBBY H.

Parkhurst

&

Crowe

(Associate)

McCALL, JOHN D.
McCall, Parkhurst

&

Crowe

(Associate)

McCall,

Laird, Bissell & Meeds
DU

PONT

BUILDING

—

WILMINGTON

TELEPHONE
MEMBERS NEW
OTHER

—

DELAWARE

YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

PRINCIPAL STOCK

STOCKS

99,

8-4241

&

BONDS

&

COMMODITY EXCHANGES

—

COMMODITIES

McCarthy,

Eppler,

Wilmington & State of Delaware Bank Stocks
YORK OFFICE

—

120

BROADWAY

Ft.

Worth,

CLAYTON

First Southwest

Ft.

of

Texas

1953

1853

R.

Company

BARRON

Worth, Texas

McEWEN,
E.

Texas

Inc.

McCONNELL, HARRY N.
Central
Investment Company

F.

HAROLD

Hutton

McFARLAND,
NEW

& Turner

McCLURE, Jr., FRED L.
Hudson, Stayart & Co.,

McCULLOCH,

Christiana Securities Co.—Common & Preferred

l.

Guerin

McCLANE, JOHN S.
Barron
McCulloch,

McCULLEY,

SPECIALISTS IN LOCAL SECURITIES

g.

Stein Bros.&Boyce

Central

<fe

D.

Company

WILLIAM E.

Investment

of Texas

Company

McGINNIS, J. H.

Bell Teletype NY 1-1248-49

Telephone—BArclay 7*3500

Republic

National

Bank

McGUGAN, C. E.
PHILADELPHIA OFFICE

—

LINCOLN-LIBERTY BLDG.

Shearson,

Hamiftill

&

6 South Calvert Street, Baltimore 2,

Company

"McKINNEY, MUNSON
—

Telephone—LOcust 7-6226

Telephone: SAratoga 7-8400

Rauscher, Pierce & Co.

Maryland
Teletype: BA 393

OTHER

OFFICES

McMAHON, FRANK B.

DAY, STODDARD & WILLIAMS DIVISION
44

WHITNEY AVE.;

TELEPHONE




NEW HAVEN 6, CONN.
LOCUST

2-6151

Frank

B.

McMahon

&

Co.,

LOUISVILLE, KY.

Inc.

NEW

McNATT, GUY W.
Dallas Rupe & Son
Mcpherson, w. perry
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner

(Continued

on

page

Wabash 5331

-

YORK, N. Y.

-

Rector 2-3327

MEMBERS

<fe

42)

Beane

OF

NEW

and other

PHILADELPHIA, PA.-Pennypacker 5-5175
CUMBERLAND, MD. - Cumberland 1540
YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

leading exchanges.

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL

Mrs.

Mr.

&

John

J.

Meyers,

Jr.,

Gordon

Graves

Co.,

&

Mrs.

New York

Security Traders Association

&

(Continued from page 41)
ROSTER OF MEMBERS

PHILLIPS,

First

F. Perkins & Company

J.

E.

SMALLWOOD,

JACK F.

Jr.,

Donald

Summerell,

Wagenseller

&

WILLIAM

Southwest

Durst, Inc., Los

Angeled

TUCKER, W. ROY
Rauscher, Pierce & Co.

Eppler, Guerin & Turner

Schneider, Bernet & Hickman
PERKINS,

Mr.

Thursday, October 8, 1953

SITZENSTATTER, N. J.

JOHN

PENSON,

Dallas

CHRONICLE

P.

TURELLA, FRANK

Company

TURNER, JOHN W.
-

First

Southwest

MEER,

JULIAN

OBENCHAIN.

(Associate)

Texas

II.

Securities

&

Jr.,

OLIVER,

Co.

E.

ALLEN

Hutton

F.

Si

L.

EDWIN S.

OLSMITH,
Dallas

Miller &

Co.

,

Moody's
MILLER,

Investor's

Service

Dallas

National

Bank

O'NEIL, DONALD

RAUSCHER,

OSBORNE,

Co.

Dallas

CLIFFORD J.

W.

RAY,

&

Moore

OTT, L. A.

Company

Beer &

i

A.

Hagberg & Co.,

OTTO,

Inc.

OWENS,

A.

MOSS,

Underwood

JACK

Columbian

Dallas

R.

&

Inc.

Co.,

G.

McCall,

Securities Corp.
P.

Farkhurst

Crowe

&

(Associate)

Bank

of

Dallas

REID,

NEWSOM, Jr., WILLIAM

G.

Sanders

Si

RIVES,

J.

Hudson,

A.

Si

Stayart

&

Co.,

Inc.

Central

LEWIS

Si

LOUIS

SAMPLE,

&

Co.,

Beer

Public Utility

&

&

Ft.

Sanders

TOOLE,
at

Bank

R.

&

Jr.,

Co.

A.

E.

N. Edwards & Co.,

I.

H.

Rupe

Si Son

F.

Hutton & Company

DELBERT

D.

VVORTHINGTON, W. F.
Bank

First

ALLEN

National

WRIGHT,

Pierce

&

First

Co.

Si

Inc.

Co..

J.

of

ZIVNEY,

Underwood

A.

Ft. Worth

First Southwest Company

TUCKER, R. G.
R.

National Bank,

L.

WILLIAMS,

J.

Rauscher,

JESSE

Newsom

Waggener

WIGLEY, Jr., RpBERT

Newsom

National

TUCKER,

&

Worth, Texas

Dallas

JEROME

&

A.

Dallas

Dallas

MURRAY

&

Company

E.

Worth

WEIL,

Son

Pierce

Austin
D.

Inc.

Jr., R. BRUCE

Rupe

Sanders

Company

SANDERS,

&

B.

Texas

CLARENCE
National

Hammill

Company

Walker,

WARD,

Rauscher,
of

Company

D.

Mercantile

SAMUELL,

Railroad

&

WALTON,

L.

THWEATT, JEAN E.

DEALERS

Beane

Jr., THOMAS B.
Equitable Securities Corporation

Waggener

RODERICK

THORNTON,

GORDON
Dallas Rupe & Son

DISTRIBUTORS

&

WALKER, WILLARD E.

Austin

THOMAS,

Company

F.

Investment

RUPE, Jr.,

Fenner

WALKER,

Company

D.

Underwood

Dallas
Trust

&

TOM

RODGERS,

Newsom

T.

Dallas Rupe & Son

FRED

Bank

Texas

Pierce,

JACK

WAGGENER, NELSON
Walker, Austin & Waggener

(Associate)

Fort

Inc.

Reed,

HAROLD

Rauscher, Pierce & Co.
PENICK,

R.

Inc.

W. ALLEN

Hutton

F.

THOMAS,

Company

GRAHAM
&

Inc.

VOYLES, JAMES F.

Company

Reporter,

THALHEIMER,
R.

&

Lynch,

VAUGHN,

Co.

(Associate)

& Son

Reed

Waddell

Company

Si

KEITH B.

REED,

Co.,

TOM

TEMPLE,

Bank

National

&

ROGER

PAUL

William

National

Bank

Securities

E.

HARRY F.

Keith

ARTHUR P.
American

Pierce

Bank

TAYLOR,

Company

C.

Dallas Rupe

JACK

Republic

National

Texas

Walker.

of Texas

PEARSON,
North

First

Inc.
A.

S.

Southwest

SUTTON,

Company

PARKHURST, MILLARD

a

NAZRO,

C.

REED,

PAYNE,
MURPHY,

JAMES

Dallas Union Securities

MORRIS, JACK
R.

DAVID

Co.,

Edwards, Inc.

Beer

Son

REED,

J.

Shearson,
First

Pierce & Co.

Southwest

First

&

&

ROBERT

STORIE. WILLIAM STEWART

H.
Co.

WILLIAM E.

READ,

S.

Rupe

Jr.,

Underwood

UTLEY,

Company

Company

ED

Dallas

MORONEY, T. J.
Republic National Bank of Dallas

J.

Rauscher.

ROGERS

Rauscher,

MOORE, WILMER L.
M.

&

Securities

Rupe & Son

MURRAY W.

Miyray

Pierce

A.

UPSHAW, T.

Merrill

STONE,

II.

JOHN

Jr.,

Rauscher,

Underwood

FRITZ

Southwestern

Rauscher, Pierce & Co.

Rauscher, Pierce & Co.

MOORE, ADDISON P.
Southern Brokerage
MOORE,

JOHN

Turner

&

D.

Bank

R.

STEWART,

RATLIFF, HARRY
Keller & Ratliff, Ft. Worth, Texas
RAUSCHER,

JOHN

National

A.

UNDERWOOD,

Inc.

R.

First

A.

Guerin

Co.

W.

Stayart & Co.,

STEPHENS.

ARTHUR E.

(Associate)

WILL

Insurance

UNDERWOOD, ROBERT A.

LOUIS

Hudson,

EARL

Eppler,

Life

R.

STAYART.

A.

Rupe & Son

OLSON, A. LENNART

(Associate)

(Associate)

Henry-Seay & Co.;

FRANK

Frank

Reporter

TYSON,

Co.

Si

Eppler, Guerin & Turner

Bond

Southwestern

Company
POSTEL,

Co.

JOHN

Jr..

Pondrom

B.

STANDLEY, JOHN

Company
PONDItOM,

Trust

Si

Worth, Texas

R.

Texas

Worth

Ft.

PIERCE, CHARLES C.
Rauscher, Pierce & Co.

STANLEY

Bank

MILLER,

Fort

of

Bank

THOMAS

Union

Dallas

MERRILL, SAM
Rauscher, Pierce
METCALF,

National

First

Company

SMITH,

W.

Bank

National

First

ROBERT

NICOUD,

FEANK

MEDANICK,

HARRY

Texas

E.

Merrill

Bank

CARL

Corporation

C.

Lynch.

Pierce.

Fenner

& Be&ne

Ill, JESSE
Harris, Upham & Co.

SANDERS.

Industrial Securities

SANGER,
Beer

mm

EDWIN

&

Company

:

:

#:>

SCHERMERHORN, CARL

Active

Inquiries

on

Markets Maintained

SCHERMERHORN, STANLEY
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner

Penna. Inactive Securities Invited

§

PHILADELPHIA-BALTIMORE

STOCK EXCHANGE

Street, Philadelphia 9, Pa.

Philadelphia Telephone
KIngsley 5-2700

Bell System Teletype

City Telephone:

1

Bank

BROOKE

SEAY,

WILLIAM
&

SHEA,

JOSEPH

E.

Hutton

F.

H.

Members

Co.

&

& CO.

Philadelphia-Baltimore Stock Exchange

I

Company

SHELTON, LOCKETT

PH 771

BOwling Green 9-4818

Direct Private Wires to First Securities Co. of Chicago,
Chicago, III.
and

Beane

SCOTT, WALTER R.
Bailey, Scott & Company

Republic

New York

2:5

Si

E.

National

Henry-Seay

123 South Broad

1

m

RALPH

Dallas

Henry B. Warner & Co., inc.

1912

SCHNEIDER, JULES E.
Schneider, Bernet & Hickman
SCOTT,

MEMBER

ESTABLISHED

SHIELDS,
Merrill

National

m.

Bank

of

Dallas

N. E. Cor. 15th & Locust Sts.

300 N. Charles St.

Jr., E. A.
Lynch,

Pierce,

Fenner

&

Philadelphia 2, Pa.

Beane

Baltimore

Harry M. Sheeley & Co., Baltimore, Md.

1,

SHILG, J. ERVIN
Garrett

and

Company,

Inc.

PRIMARY TRADING MARKETS -I- RETAIL DISTRIBUTION




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Mr.

&

Mrs.

Harold

CHRONICLE

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL

/

Convention Number

B.

Smith,

Pershing

&

New

Co.,

York

Mrs.

City

Boston Securities Traders Association

Alternate: Dayton P.

&

Mr.

43

Wellington

(Duke)

Hunter,

Hunter

December, 1952; Took
Expires: December 31, 1953.

Office: January

York

COGGHILL, FRANCIS R.

Haigney, Dayton Haigney & Co., Inc.

Elected:

New

Corporation,

Securities

White,

1, 1953; Term

Weld & Co.

CONARY, WILFRED
G.

Walker

H.

&

G.

Co., Providence,

R. I.

CONNELL, LAWRENCE

Wellington Fund, Inc.

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

CONNOLLY, JR., WALTER J.
(All

members

are

located

otherwise
ADAMS.

C.

Goldman,

Co.

&

BRADLEY,

H.

A.

L.

Sachs

Co.

&

W.

ARTHUR

Hutton

E.

ALTMEYER,

&

COPELAND,
Chas. A.

WILLIAM

Eastern

ROGER

C.

FRANK

Weeden

W.

BURKE, Jr., WILLIAM J.
May & Gannon, Inc.

Edward Hines

Lewis D. McDowell

William J. Burke

C.

J.

Devine

&

CROSBY, ALBERT
F.

BURNS, WALTER T.

ATKINSON, Sr., JAMES V.

Bums,

Barron

& Co.,

Co.

CANFIELD,
BAILEY, BENJAMIN A.
Dayton Haigney & Co., Inc.

New

Portland, Me.

Co.

John

Cannell

CAREW,
ALBERT

Smith,

W.

Barney &

J.

& Co.

F.

BARRETT,

JOSEPH

&

Co.,

Long & Nash

DAVIS, DONALD
Donald

CARR, JOHN F.
Barrett & Company,

BATCIIELDER,

Hayden, Stone & Co.
CARR, RALPH F.

JOSEPH M.

Carr

W. E.

Draper, Sears & Co.
BEACHAM, HAROLD
Josephthal & Co.

Mixter

Harris,

President: William J.

Burke, Jr., May & Gannon, Inc.

BOSS,

Vice-President: Lewis D. McDowell, Chas. A. Day &
Treasurer: Edward Hines, Chace,

F.

Co., Inc.

Emery & Co.,

A.

Street Sales

ASA

CLAYTON,

B.

Clayton

Corp.

Co.

DAY, WILFRED N.
Chas. A.

E.
Company

&

&

DAY, Jr., LEON E.
Chas. A. Day & Co., Inc.

DEAN,

&

DENTON,
Denton

F.

DEXTER,
Stone

CALVIN W.
Securities Corp.

Day & Co., Inc.

RUSSELL

Mixter

Inc.

Wise, Hobbs & Seaver, Inc.

Upham & Co.

CHARLES

Broad

S.

CLARK,

ROBERT

BLAIR,

Inc.

CHAMBERLAIN, RAYMOND E.

Schirmer, Atherton & Co.

Alan C. Leland

Newman

Thompson,

Hutton & Co.

CASEY, FRANCIS

R.

BERNARD, Jr., HUBERT N.

Leo

&

CARTER, HERBERT F.

BATES, CURTIS S.

Davis

DAWSON, JOHN H.
Coffin & Burr, Incorporated

Providence, R. I.

Joseph M. Batchelder & Co., Inc.

Inc.

Inc.

DARLING, RODNEY
4
du Pont, Homsey & Company

Inc.

FRED R.

Tucker, Anthony & Co.

EARRUS, Jr., CLIFFORD B.

Co.

Maguire & Co.,

F. L. Putnam & Co.,

JOSEPH
Putnam

L.

B.

D'ARCY, JOHN J.

Co.
CARR,

&

DALEY, JOHN L.

Josephthal & Co.
BAKER,

Co.

RICHARD D.

Jackson

Trust

CANNELL, JOHN

BAILEY, WALTER R.

S. Moseley &

CURRIER,

LLOYD

England

WILLIAM E.

CROCKETT, HARRY W.
Coffin & Burr, Incorporated

Hayden, Stone & Co.

Schirmer, Atherton & Co.

Inc.

ALFRED R.
Co.

Schirmer, Atherton & Co.

Baldwin, White & Co.

ATHERTON, H. HALE

&

CREAMER,

BRUGGEMANN, LESTER G.
JOHN

Securities,

CRAMPTON,

S.

Schirmer, Atherton & Co.

Co.

RICHARD

Day & Co., Inc.

COPPENS, RAYMOND V.

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Inc.

BREEN,

ALEXANDER.

Moors & Cabot

May & Gannon, Inc.

ARTHUR L.
Albee & Co.,

Service

CONWAY, JAMES J.

2nd, DUDLEY H.
Hemphill, Noyes & Co.

BRAGDON, J.
ALBEE,

Military

BOWERS, MAURICE A.
Bowers & Company, Portland, Me.
BRADLEE,

C.

Adams

ROBERT

Boston unless

Indicated)

FREDERICK

Frederick

ADAMS.

In

&

Company

GEORGE R.
&

S.

Co.

Jr.,

WALLACE

Webster

D.

Securities

(Continued

on

Corp.

page

Whiteside, West & Winslow, Inc.

Corresponding Secretary: Leo Newman, Eastern Securities, Inc.
Recording Secretary: Alan C. Leland, Geyer & Co., Incorporated.
Governors:

Robert R.

Greetings and Best Wishes from Philadelphia

Upham & Co.; Rodney M.

Blair, Harris,

Darling, du Pont, Hornsey & Company; John L. Ingham, Jr.,
Blyth & Co., Inc.; James E. Moynihan, J. B. Maguire & Co., Inc.;
Arthur C. Murphy, A. C. Allyn and Company, Incorporated;
William S. Thompson, Carr & Thompson, Inc.
National Committeemen:

TRADING DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL
R. Victor Mosley, <v,ce president

William S. Thompson, Carr & Thomp¬

Inc.; James R. Duffy, Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis;
James B. Maguire, J. B. Maguire & Co., Inc.; Anton E. Homsey,
du Pont, Homsey & Company; William J. Burke, Jr., May &
son,

R. Victor Mosley

!

Frank J. Laird

Gannon, Inc.

Equipment Trust Certificates

Frank J. Laird
Allen

Railroad Bonds, Guaranteed
Leased Lines Stocks

and

B. Foard, Jr.

ku-

UNDERWRITERS

•

DISTRIBUTORS

•

Public Utility

Edgar A. Christian

BROKERS

Bonds & Stocks

Industrial

James G. Mundy

Russell M. Ergood, Jr.

MAKE OUR

Michael J.

ATLANTIC CITY OFFICE YOUR

Municipal Bonds

Rudolph

Gordon W. Pfau

HEADQUARTERS IN '54

L. Wister

Randolph

Robert J.

Campbell

Institutional Department

DeCourcy W. Orrick

Newburger

&

Company

John

Sales Order Department

Klingler

F.

Edward

Statistical Department

F. Hirsch

Members:

Field Representative

Felix E. Maguire
New York

Stock

Exchange

•

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Philadelphia-Baltimore Stock Exchange

STROUD & COMPANY

Effective Distribution
In the Nation'8

Third

Incorporated

Largest Trading Area
123

1342 Walnut Street,

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City




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Street

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new

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pittsburgh

allentown

lancaster

atlantic

city

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Mr.

&

Mrs.

Albert

P.

Kibbe,

A.

P.

Kibbe

&

Co.,

Salt

Lake

City,

Utah

Mrs.

DONOHUE, JOHN J.

Boston Securities Traders Association

Donohue

(Continued from page 43)
ROSTER OF MEMBERS

DODSON,

DONNELLY, JOHN P.

H.

G.

PAUL E.

Union Securities Corporation

RICHARD

Walker

Salomon

Bros.

& Co.,

Providence,

Adams

Brown

Boston

EL WELL,

REGINALD

Richard J.

KEALEY,
Second

B.

Buck & Co.

F.

PENNSYLVANIA SCHOOL AUTHORITY

S.

Emery

Co., Inc.

FAY, NATHAN C.
FERGUSON,

F.

& Co., Portland,

Co.

Lahti

&

Co.,

Inc.

Lamont & Co.

Co.

&

LANG, HAROLD F.

Lang & Dadmun, Inc.

GEORGE
National

Bank

LARSON, N. HENRY

C.

The First Boston Corp.

Bank

Brothers

,

LAWRENCE, EDWARD W.
Hemphill, Noyes & Co.
LeBEAU, IRVING C.

Securities

Co.

May & Gannon, Inc.

LELAND, ALAN C.
Geyer & Co., Inc.

Kennedy & Co.

Me.
KENNEY, PHILIP F.

WM.

E.

Moors & Cabot

OTHER REVENUE BONDS

Matthew

Shawmut

Brittain

&

Co.

LAMONT, NICHOLAS

KELLER, HERMAN J.
Keller

Kirwan

Estabrook &

KENNEDY, F. BRITTAIN

Nathan C. Fay

AND

Thomas A.

KEANE, J. FRANK
Elmer H. Bright & Co.

ENGDAHL, ARTHUR E.
Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Inc.

LAHTI, W. HENRY

Pressprich

National

Securities,

KUMIN, EMIL

Globe

W.

Chicago

KIRWAN, THOMAS A.

JULIAN, JAMES

EMERY, FORREST S.

ISSUES

Jr., JOHN L.

JORDAN, Jr., G. C.

ELDBACHER, THEODORE
R. W. Pressprich & Co.

PHILADELPHIA

Eastern

(Honorary)
R.

McDowell,

KILNER, GEORGE M.
Brown, Lisle & Marshall, Providence, R. I.

JONES. WILLIAM

Brothers, Harrlman & Co.

&

KENT, RODNEY P.

Peck

Halsey, Stuart & Co. Inc.

Harris, Upham & Co.

OF

Blosser

JACOBS, BERT L.

EAGAN, WALTER F.

CITY

Strauss,

Blyth & Co., Inc.

DUNCKLEE, WILLIAM S.

& Hutzler

ALL

&

INGHAM.

duPont, Homsey & Company

IN

Isaacs,

DOUCET, LESTEB T.

DYKES, ALVIN A.

SPECIALIZING

I.

INGALLS, ROBERT U.
Tucker, Anthony & Co.

Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis
R. I.

Milton

INGALLS, JEROME M.

& Sullivan

Salomon Bros. & Hutzler

DOLIBEB,

Mr.

DONOVAN, WARBEN
Dayton Halgney & Co., Inc.

DUFFY, JAMES B.

DIAMOND, CLEMENT G.
Tcwnsend, Dabney & Tyson

&

Thursday, October 8, 1953

M.

Newton

&

LERNER, LOUIS C.
Co.

Lerner & Co.

FIELDING, JOHN S.
C. J. Devine & Co. °

FOSTER,

FREDERICK H.

Lee Higginson

Corporation

E. W. CLARK & CO.

FOSTER, Jr., HAT1IERLY

schaffer, necker & co.
Packard Building, Philadelphia 2, Pa.
LOcust 7-3646

Vance, Sanders <Ss Company
GALVIN, JAMES J.
F.

Teletype PH 864

L.

ESTABLISHED

Putnam & Co.,

Inc.

GANNON, JOSEPH

MEMBERS

May & Gannon, Inc.

PHILADELPHIA-BALTIMORE

GIBSON, Jr., CHARLES E.
F. S. Moseley & Co.

NEW

YORK

AMERICAN

GLEASON, SHERMAN

STOCK

STOCK

Bank

Municipal
•

*

DEALERS

•

Corporate Securities

Insurance Stocks

•

Mutual Funds

Pennsylvania Authority & Revenue Bonds
New

Public

We maintain active

J. H.

Authority Bonds

trading markets in unlisted

securities

Goddard

DEALER

INQUIRIES

INVITED

GUNN,

Arthur L. Wright & Co., Inc.
15TH

STREET, PHILADELPHIA 2

Direct private wire

to Burnham

&

•

Klngsley 5-1060

Co., New York

PHILADELPHIA

Telephones:

Philadelphia Klngsley 5-4000

Townsend, Dabney & Tyson

New

York

WHitehall 3-4000

GUTHRIE, ELWIN A.
&

Germantown

Company, Worcester

Lancaster

York

HAIGNEY, DAYTON P.
Dayton Halgney & Co., Inc.
HALEY, DAVID A.

Sachs

&

Co.

LEAMAN F.

Goldman,

225 SOUTH

LOCUST AT 16th STREET

Co., Inc.

IRVING E.

LLETT,

■

&

GRIFFIN, HENRY F.
A. C. Allyn and Company, Inc.

Goldman,
■

(ASSOC.)

•

GOODHUE, DONALD S.
F. S. Moseley & Co.

Reed

Housing

EXCHANGE

EXCHANGE

GODDARD, JAMES H.

DISTRIBUTORS
*

STOCK

EXCHANGE

Sherman Gleason & Co., Inc.

State

1837

•

Sachs & Co.

HALLIWILL, BIRNEY S.
F. S. Moseley & Co.

HANRAHAN, PAUL B.
Hanrahan

&

Co., Worcester

WARNER CO.

HARKNESS, ROBERT B.
Dwlnnell, Harkness & Hill, Incorporated

HARRINGTON, FRANK T.

Philadelphia

H. D. Knox & Co., Inc.

HARRIS, HOWARD S.
Baldwin, White & Co.

Morrisville,

Pa.

Wilmington,

HARSON, FREDERICK L.
Fraser,

Call

JANNEY

Phelps

&

Co.,

Providence,

R.

I.

\

Founded 1794

HART, JOHN J.

-

White, Weld & Co.
HASTINGS, FRANCIS

Bank

and

Insurance Stocks

HAVEY, JOSEPH
Boston

"Herald-Traveller"

(Honorary)

active

Pennsylvania Tax Free

trading
markets

Industrials

Common

and

Rails

Utilities

Preferred Shares

HERLIHY, EDWARD
Draper, Sears <fc Co.
HINES, EDWARD F.
Chace, Whiteside, West & Winslow, Inc.

Certified

HIXON, REGINALD T.

Hooper-Kimball, Inc.
HOMSEY, ANTON E.
du

Pont,

Homsey & Company

Central-Mix Concrete

HORMEL, EDWARD F.
Day

City-County-State-Authority Issues

.

Guaranteed Rails

Trust

Company

HOUGHTON, CHARLES G.
A. L.

Albee

&

Co., Inc.

HUGHES, FRANCIS J.
Clayton Securities Corp.
HUNT, WILLIAM P.
W. E. Sibley & Co.

New York Telephone

WOrth 4-2140
Bell Teletype System

JANNEY & CO.

PH 80

1529 Walnut

Street, Philadelphia 2

RIttenhouse 6-7700

HURLBURT, C. GRAHAM
Henry P. Brlggs & Co.

1907—Underwriters, Distributors, Dealers, Brokers




9

Serving

HURLEY, EDMUND J.

Wise, Hobbs & Seaver, Inc.
HURLEY, HERBERT E.
Hornblower

Since

Sand and Gravel

&

Weeks

HUSSEY, EUGENE R.
The First

Boston Corp.

HUTCHINSON, Jr., JAMES A.
Hutchinson

&

Company

Delaware Valley, U. S. A.

Del.

>r

Convention

Peter

Brochu,

Allen

New

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Number

CARL

New

Company,

&

York

George

Qity;

LEWIS,

Funds,

Eastern

Inc.

Mixter

J. EL Goddard & Co., Inc.

LOTHROP,

St

R. W.

& Trust Co.
M.

Co.

LYNCH, FRANK E.

Shea

JAMES

&

E.

Paul D.

Sheeline & Co.

MUNN,

J. B. Maguire St Co., Inc.

&

Mann

Gould, Salem, Mass.

MAX, RICHARD L.
H.

C. Wainwrlght & Co.

MAY,

Frederick c. Adams &,Co.

Allyn

McCUE, GERARD

Goodbody

& Co.

Mcdowell,
Chas.

A.

Day & Co., Inc.

A.

E.

Ames

St

Co.,

J. B.

Beane

Inc.

Lee

A.

Hooper-Kimball,

Walsh

&

WINSLOW, Jr., A. N.
Chace, Whiteside, West & Winslow, Inc.
WOGLOM, ALBERT G.
Goodbody & Co.

Son

WOLL, ALBERT J. T.

C. Wainwrlght St

S.

Co.

&

JOSEPH

A.

Coffin

&

&

WOOLARD.

Corporation

Moseley

Newton

M.

&

Co.

WOLLEY. SUMNER R.

H.

C.

Incorporated

HAROLD

Wainwright & Co.

YOUNG,
Brown

Co.

Burr,

HERBERT W.
Brothers Harriman

WELLS, CARL V.
Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis

YOUNG, R. T.

WELLS, RAYMOND E.
Bishop-Wells Co.

ZUCCARO,

WHITCOMB, BURTON F.
Harriman Ripley & Co*, Inc.

ZUCCHELLI, LOUIS V.
J. B. Maguire & Co.

The

&

Co.

Keystone Company of Boston

First

ALFRED

Boston

G.

Corporation

F.

JOSEPH

Moseley & Co.
K.

1

Ross

Co.,

&

Portland,

Inc.,

*?»•

RYALL, EUGENE J.
C.

Devine St

J.

DeHaven

Co.

Townsend, Crouter

&

SCHUERHOFF, ROLAND H.

Smith,

Barney

Scribner

Pressprlch St Co.

&

Bodine

Members

Co.

&

New

PAUL A.
Meredith,

SCRIBNER,

PAUL J.

York

&

Philadelphia-Baltimore

Inc.

&

American

Stock

Stock

Exchanges

and

Exchange

SESSLER, JOHN G.
John

Sessler

G.

St

Co.

1500

CHESTNUT

STREET, PHILADELPHIA 2

SHEA, Jr., JOHN L.
&

Company

Sheehan

FREDERICK
Higginson Corporation

&

New

Philadelphia Phone

JR., DANIEL M.

SHEEHAN,

LOcust 4-2900

Co.

Bell

York Phone

DIgby 4-0200
System Teletype—PH 518

SHEELINE, PAUL D.
Paul D. Sheeline

St Co.

PARSLOE, GEORGE S.
St

Webster

Townsend,

Securities

Corporation

Co.

SIDES, W. RANDOLPH
Sides, Morse & Co., Inc.

ERNEST

SLIFER,

Dabney St Tyson

Distributors, Dealers, Underwriters

W.

American Securities

Corp.

SMITH, CHARLES H.

Corporate and Municipal Issues

Cabot

&

Moors

HERBERT

SMITH,

C.

Stock and Bond Brokers

Blyth St Co., Inc.

Rambo, Close & Kerner
Incorporated

SOFORENKO, MYER M.
Michael Investment Co.,

PHILADELPHIA 2, PA.

New York

Telephone

Teletype

Telephone

PH

63

C.

New York

Adams St Co.

30

FREDERICK
Townsend, Dabney & Tyson

SPENCE,

REctor 2-2820

PEnnypacker 5-2800

Inc.

Providence, R. I.
SPELLMAN, VINCENT L.
Frederick

1518 LOCUST ST.,
Phila.

E.

Co.

LOWELL A.

Boston

Inc.

Incorporated

Maine

PATNODE, WE8LEY P.

&

II

CARL K.

Carl

Maguire St Co., Inc.

Stone

Pressprlch

F. S.

ROSS,

PARENT,

Bureau

(Honorary)

W.

&

Tripp St Taber, New Bedford, Mass.

MONROE, PAUL B.
R.

Pressprlch

PARDEE, MILTON I.

MERIGAN, THOMAS F.
News

W.

Shea

Inc.

McVEY, FREDERICK V.
Childs, Jeffries & Thomdike, Inc.

Boston

R.

ROBBINS,

Fenner

OPPER, EDWARD J.

McTAVISH, WILSON C.

DONALD

Whittemore & Co.

Lerner St Co.

Day St Co.

W.

R.

F.

F. S. Moseley St Co.

Spencer Trask St Co.

lewis d.

H.

RICE, FRED W.

Nichols, Inc.

O'LEARY,

G.

First

Josephthal & Co.

NOWELL, RICHARD CARLTON

McCUE, JOHN A.
May St Gannon, Inc.

Burr,

WEEKS, Jr., ROBERT S.

N

REILLY, ARTHUR H.

Inc.

&

Kidder, Peabody & Co.

Preston, Moss St Co.

^OONAN. THOMAS H.
L.

D.

Co.

Bedford

WARREN, Jr.,

LESTER F.

REED,

Inc.

RINALDI, JOSEPH M.

R.

H.

W. E. Hutton & Co.

MURRAY, RICHARD E.
May St Gannon, Inc.

H. P.

&

WARD, FRANCIS V.

PUTNAM, JOHN A.

NEWTON, DEXTER

& Co.

Baldwin, White & Co.

WHITTEMORE,

ARTHUR G.

WARING, LLOYD B.

RICHARDSON,

McCORMIOK, Jr., JAMES F.
C.

Prescott & Co.

MURRAY, RAYMOND M.
Tucker, Anthony St Co.

NEWMAN, LEO
Eastern Securities,

McAllister, Jr., henry p.

A.

P. JUDSON
&
Company,

NEEDHAM, CARLETON
Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

WILLIAM F.

May & Gannon, Inc.

A.

S.

EUGENE F.
Wainwrlght &t Co.

H. C.

Chace, Whiteside, West & Winslow, Inc.

MANN, Jr., GEO. P.

Co.

Wadsworth

WALSH, FRANCIS P.

WILLIAM

S.

M.

Spencer Trask & Co.

White, Weld & Co.

F.

PROCTOR,

MURPHY, TIMOTHY D.

MAGUIRE, JOHN E.
May St Gannon, Inc.

EDWARD

William

REGINALD

W.

BROAD

STREET

Wilkes Barre, Pa.

Stamford, Conn.

Deposit & Savings Bank Bldg.

77 BEDFORD STREET

3-4131

4-2148

DIgby 4-0200

STANLEY
Burgess 8c Leith

SPORRONG,

STANLEY, Jr., GEORGE A.
Schirmer, Atherton St Co.

Corporate and Municipal Securities

STEMBRIDGE, ALFRED R.
Distributors Group,

Incorporated

SULLIVAN, JAMES E.
Baldwin, White St Co.

WALTER G. NELSON

EDMUND J. DAVIS
Vice

President

in

Manager of

Charge of

Jr., JOHN E.
Co., Inc.

SULLIVAN,
F.

Putnam St

L.

-

Butcher

.

A

JOHN J.

SULLIVAN,

Municipal Bond Department

Corporate Department

W. E. Hutton St Co.

&

Sherrerd

ESTABLISHED

1910

JOHN P.

SULLIVAN,

Smith, Barney St Co.

CORPORATE TRADERS

SULLIVAN, ROBERT W.
Donohue

& Sullivan

James

SWENSON, CARL J.

Dealers and Brokers in

M.

Railroad

•

•

Industrial

SECURITIES

Providence, R.

Joseph Cummings,
WALTER T.
Peabody & Co.

SWIFT,

Public Utility

I.

J. McAtee,

Manager

Walter E. Gemenden

Rudolph C. Sander

Kidder,

MUNICIPAL

TABB, Jr., HENRY E.
Townsend, Dabney St Tyson

James
ELLIOT C.
Tripp & Taber, New Bedford,

W.

TRADERS

Heward, Manager

TABER,

New

Co.,

WHITE, BENJAMIN F.

WALKER, HARRY R.

Hodgdon St Co.

MURPHY, ARTHUR C.
A.
C. Allyn and Company,

MAGUIRE, JAMES B.

WHITCOMB,

Co.

Scranton &
Baltimore

WILLIAMS, T. EDMUND

QUINN, DANIEL L.
Schirmer, Atherton & Co.

Jackson

(Honorary)

&

WAGNER, ALFRED

Moseley St Co.

Arthur W. Wood Company

Adams, Mudge St Co.

Inc., Chicago

&

Arthur G.

Coffin

JR., EDWARD
Fund, Inc.

MADARY, HAROLD
Geyer St Co.,

F. S.

POTTER. J. RUSSELL

Company, Providence, R. I.

MacDONALD, WILLIAM G.
W. F. Rutter, Incorporated

Doremus

Corporation

New

PRESCOTT,

MUDGE, JOHN G.

Devine

POPE, WILLIAM A.

MOYNIHAN, JAMES E.
J. B. Maguire St Co., Inc.

LYNCH, JAMES J.

J.

WADSWORTH,
Securities

Webster

St

MOSSOP, WALLACE L.

Boston

C.

Weston W. Adams St Co.

Stone

Pressprlch St Co.

MOTLEY.

TUCKER, LESLIE A.

VAUGHN, HAROLD F.

PILLSBURY, E. P.

Inc.

POWERS,

Company, Inc.

B.

Townsend, Dabney & Tyson

Company

Barrett &

Elder, Straus, Blosser & McDowell, Detroit; Leslie B. Swan, Chas. W.
Haven; William C. Roberts, Jr., C. T. *>Williams & Company, Inc.,

PIERCE, RALPH W.

MORRISON, JAMES A.
Townsend, Dabney St Tyson

Harris, Upham & Co.
LYNCH

&

J.
New

WILFRED

FERHAM,

J.

GEORGE P.

MOREY,

R.

GILBERT

Hutton

E.

W.

Securities,

George

Co.,

&

Pittsburgh

MOORE, GEORGE E.

LINDSAY, HERBERT N.

Boston Safe Deposit

Co.,

&

Securities, Inc.

Eastern

Weeden & Co.

WILLARD

Jr., Ira Haupt

Carrington,

Lestrange

FREDERICK S.

MOORE,

WARREN A.

LOCKE,

G.

William

Arthurs,

MOORE, ALEXANDER W.

FREDERICK T.

Jr.,

Trusteed

City;

MONTAGUE, THOMAS
Minot, Kendall & Co.

A.

May & Gannon, Inc.

LEWIS,

York

Lestrange,

E.

45

General Market Municipal Bonds

Jersey and

Electronic

and

Guaranteed

Television

and

Leased

Equipment Trust

Securities

Line

Funds

Henry P. Glendinning, Jr.

John B. Richter

TABER, RICHARD D.
Tripp St Taber, New Bedford, Mass.

Stocks

MEMBERS

Obligations

TAYLOR, JOHN R.

Bank and Insurance Stocks
Mutual

Mass.

Taylor St Co., Inc.

Shares

New

York

Stock

TAYLOR, Jr., JOHN R.

Philadelphia-Baltimore Stock Exchange

Exchange
American

Stock

Exchange

(Associate)

Taylor St Co., Inc.

Chailes A. Taggart
Members

Philadelphia-Baltimore

& Co., Inc.
Stock Exchange

THOMPSON,
Carr

St

TIRRELL,

Investment Securities

Star

WILLIAM

Thompson,

S.

Inc.

1500 WALNUT STREET

JOHN

Printing

Philadelphia
1500 Walnut
Philadelphia Phone
KIngsley 5-1716




TOOHEY, CARROLL W.
Coburn & Middlebrook,

Street, Philadelphia 2, Pa.
Teletype
PH 677

New

York

Phone

WHitehall 4-7000

TOWNSEND, CURTICE N.
Weeden

St

Co.

•

PHILADELPHIA 2, PA.

itCo.

Incorporated

Telephone

PEnnypacker 5-2700

Teletype

New York Telephone

PH-4

WHitehall 4-4927

THE COMMERCIAL

46

Mr.

&

Mrs.

Ernest

E.

and FINANCIAL

Stone, Stone, Moore & Company, Denver; Mr. & Mrs. John J. Meyers, Jr.,
Gordon Graves & Co., New York City

Mr.

&

Mrs.

CHRONICLE

Jim

Vickers,

Company,

St.

Thursday, October 8, 1953

Vichers

Miss

Louis;

Brothers, New York City; Milton C. Brittain, Scherck,
Betty Portner, The W. C. Thornburgfx Co., Cincinnati

KELLEY,

Secretary: Kenneth Moir, Chaplin and Company.

Pittsburgh Securities Traders Association

Directors:

William

G.

Simpson,

H.

Humphrey, Inc.

Byllesby

M.

and

KLIMA,

Company,

JOHN

Reed,

Masten

LEAR,

Lear

Graham

ANFANG,

Jr.

Earl E. Sweitzer

Kenneth

Moir

Paul

A.

Day

President: Frank M. Ponicall, Jr., Singer, Deane & Scribner.

Vice-President: Earl E. Sweitzer, E. E. Sweitzer
Co., Inc.

R.

C.

JAMES

Schmerz

LEATHERBURY,

Hulme, Applegate

JAMES

OF

LEADERSHIP-1953

&

H.

Merrill

BEAR,

Co.,

DUANE

Lynch,

S.

Kay,

&

HULME,

8c

&

S. K.

Co.

Corporate and Municipal

Blair F.

JOHN

P.

Lear

MATTERS,

W.

8c

Co.

HORACE

E.

Moore, Leonard & Lynch
G.

McCONNELL, W. BRUCE
Singer, Deane 8c Scribner

HUMPHREY, ARTHUR F.
Hulme, Applegate & Humphrey, Inc.

Mcdonough, e. a.
Moore, Leonard 8c Lynch

HUNTER, FRANK H.

McGUINESS, FRANCIS J.

8c Company

Chaplin

INGRAM, PAUL H.

Claybaugh & Go.

JOHNSON,
Johnson

WILBUR
&

and

McKEE, CARL
C.

Chaplin and Company

BROWER, W. BRUCE

BUFFINGTON, Jr., JOSEPH

Securities

Reed,

MARONEY, FRANKLIN
Blair, Rollins 8c Co., Inc.

Co.

MILTON

McKelvy

Cunningham & Co., Inc.

BROCKLEY,

i

Beane

BODELL, G. CLIFFORD

in

W.

LONSINGER, EUGENE W.

Hulme, Applegate & Humphrey, Inc.
Fenner

LEE

Richards

<fe

Lynch

GEORGE

Peoples First National Bank 8c Trust Co.

WALTER L.

JOHN

Parrish

Incorporated

G.

Pierce,

LEWIS, GUY

Chaplin and Company
HOY,

Babbitt

BARBOUR,

Underwriters, Distributors, Dealers

HOWLEY,

SHIRLEY

P.

Arthurs, Lestrange & Co.

Thomas & Company

Co.

GEORGE
Co.

Leonard &

LESTRANGE,

HEFREN, ARTHUR R.

BABBITT, WALTER H.
W.

M.

HARRISON, JOHN T.

Humphrey, Inc.

&

Lear &

Moore,

Company

GURCAK, FRANK J.
Thomas & Company

Co., Inc.

ARTHURS, ADDISON W.
Arthurs, Lestrange & Co.
Parrish

1877—SEVENTY-SIX YEARS

J.
8c

Co.

LEECH, FRED T.

Jenks, Kirkland & Grubbs

APPLEGATE, A LOWBIE

AUSTIN.

&

H.

8c

LEAR, JAMES C.
Reed, Lear 8c Co.
Reed,

GRUBBS, M.

Company

OWEN

EUGENE

Reed,

GRAHAM, E. W. STERLING

Reed, Lear & Co.

C.

&

Blyth & Co., Inc.

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

A'HEARN, R. B.
Butler, Pa.

Co.

EDWARD

E.

KRAFT,

December, 1952; Took Office: January, 1953; Term Ex¬
pires; December, 1953.

J.

R.

Lear 8c

KOST,

Co.

Alternate: George E. Lestrange, Arthurs, Lestrange & Co.

WM.

Inc.

W.

Graham & Company

Elected:

ACKERMAN,

C.

Co.

&

KNOCH, CYRIL

A.

National Committeeman: H. Sheldon Parker, Kay, Richards &

Stuart

KIRKPATRICK, T.

Incorporated; Harry J. Steele, Fauset, Steele & Co.; James C.
Lear, Reed, Lear & Co.; James E. Crehan, Moore, Leonard &
Lynch; A. E. Tomasic, Thomas & Company.

F. M. Ponicall,

BERNARD

Halsey,

Treasurer: Paul A. Day, Hulme, Applegate &

E.

S.

McKee

Company
S.
8c

Company

McMOIL, WM. J.

Johnson

Moore, Leonard 8c Lynch

Arthurs, Lestrange & Co.
JOHNSON, Jr., WILBUR E.

BURGWIN, HOWARD J.
Howard J. Burgwin & Co.

Johnson &

KEIR,

CARTER, ALBERT R.

HAROLD

Jenks,

Preston, Watt 8c Schoyer

METZMAIER, Jr., ALBERT J.
Mellon National Bank 8c Trust

Johnson

,

M.

Kirkland

MOIR, KENNETH
8c

Grubbs

Chaplin and Company

CARTER, SAMUEL C.

MOORE, LEONARD & LYNCH
Members:
New York Stock

Exchange

Pittsburgh Stock Exchange

American Stock

Telephone

PG

Wire

to

14 Wall Street

New York City, New York

Telephone Dlgby 9-3650

New

York

8c

Co.

S.

CREHAN,

JAMES

E.

Leonard

&

Lynch

CUNNINGHAM, ROGER
Merrill Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner & Beane

Building
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Telephone Greensburg 3311 or 3312
Private

Powell

1-0358

397

First National Bank

Direct

E.

Moore, Leonard 8c Lynch

CULLINAN, DANIEL J.
Chaplin and Company

Pittsburgh, Pa.

ATlantic

Teletype

Elmer

CONNOR, THOMAS

Moore,

Exchange

Union Trust Building,

and

Greensburg

Office

DAY,

PAUL

THOMAS & COMPANY
ALCOA

BUILDING

A.

PITTSBURGH

Hulme, Applegate & Humphrey, Inc.

19,

PA.

DEAKINS, ROBERT G.
Reed, Lear & Co.
DeCOURSEY, JOHN A.
Chaplin and Company
DINWIDDIE,
Reed,

DIRECT PRIVATE WIRE

Municipal and Corporate

CLYDE

Lear

&

Co.

Securities

DODWORTH, W. STANLEY
DONNER, FREDERICK H.
Singer, Deane & Scribner

•

DORBRITZ, ERNEST O.

NEW YORK CITY

Mcore,

\

Leonard

DOYLE,
C.

F.

&

Lynch

ROBERT
Childs

and

Company

EMERY, JOHN L.
H. M.
Byllesby and Company
Incorporated

\
REED, LEAR & CO.

-

Members Pittsburgh Stock
American Stock

Exchange

Exchange (Assoc.)

EVFRSON. RICHARD

Reed,

Lear

&

ALL TAX EXEMPT ISSUES

Co.

FISHER, CHARLES

N.

Singer, Deane & Scribner

GOVERNMENT

—

STATE

—

MUNICIPAL

—

LAND BANK

FITZGERALD, Jr., JOHN L.
Singer, Deane & Scribner

TERRITORIAL AND REVENUE BONDS

.GAMBLE,

Jr., GUY P.
Jenks, Kirkland & Grubbs

GENKINGER, JACK
J.

M.

M.

Genkinger & Co., New Castle,

Pa.

GERNON, JAMES K.
Walston

GESSNER.

Branches

Arthurs,

NEW YORK, N. Y.
BUTLER, PA.
MEADVILLE, PA.

.

PITTSBURGH

&

Co.

W.

Teletypes

—

New York City NY 1-1420




—

Pittsburgh PGR 432

JOHNSON & JOHNSON

J.

Lestrange & Co.

GILSON. BURTON R.
Reed, Lear & Co.

GLADSTONE, R
Bell

Richter

C.

J.

Devine

&

UNION TRUST BUILDING
PITTSBURGH 19, PENNSYLVANIA

S.
Co.

GLEESON, Jr.. GEORGE H.
Walston & Co.

Teletype Pittsburgh 289

ATlantic

1-8333

Co.

Convention

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Number

47

M.ftlLm: aHz.
&

Mr.

Mrs.

Edwin J. Markham,

PARKER,

Kay, Richards & Co.

Kay, Richards & Co.
PARKER,

R.

C.

Schmertz

&

&

,

H.

M.

Byllesby

Mr.

William

J.

Burke,

Jr.,

May

&

Stroud

M. Byllesby and Company
Incorporated

A.

Company

E.

VOIGT,

Incorporated

Company, Inc.

SCHUGAR, MAX N.

Lear &

Reed,

McKelvy

Co.

&

Company

AUSTIN

M'asten

&

LOUIS

W.

Hemphill,

SCOTT, JAMES H.

POWELL, ELMER E.

SCRIBNER, JOSEPH M.

Elmer

REED,

E.

Powell

&

James

Singer,

Co.

&

Scott

Deane

&

&

Co.

Scribner

SHANAHAN, CHARLES V.
Singer, Deane & Scribner

PAUL

Graham

H.

Company

REITZELL, CARROLL F.
Reitzell, Reed & Co., Inc.,

SHEPPARD,

Erie,

Pa.

JOHN

Singer, Deane & Scribner

S.

Fauset, Steele & Co.

Steele &

Fauset,

STEINECKE,
Sarasota,

STOLACK,

Co.

&

Norman

(Honorary)

Jr.,
&

Bank

&

Trust

Co.

W.

FREJD
Co.

GEORGE R.
Kay, Richards & Co.

YOUNG,

B.

NORMAN
&

P.

ZINGERMAN, ROGER J.

B.

Merrill

Co.

Lyjnch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

SYDNEY

^'111! 1111U C11E E11111111111111E111 ft III11111111111111111111II111111111111M1111111

It 111N1111111

Co.

&

LOUISVILLE

LEXINGTON

Holman R. Wilson

William B. Holton

Co.

STUREK, FRANK T.

Bank

National

Mellon

YOUNG,

Walston

Ward

STUBNER, CHRISTIAN J.
Stubner

Incorporated

Co.

National

Mellon

Ward & Co.

Jr.,

&

WOODS, JOHN

Noyes & Co.

NORMAN

Norman

WARD,

STOUT, FREDERICK L.
Stout

W.

Company,

Co.

(Honorary)
WARD,

STEPHEN W.

Fla.

FRED
&

Walston

VORSANGER, WILLIAM

STEELE, HARRY J.

PONICALL, Jr., FRANK M.
Singer, Deane & Scribner

Boston

WOLFERS, PHILIP

UMSTEAD,

SINGER, 3RD., G. HARTON

PARRY, HERBERT B.

Inc.,

Gannon,

WILLEY,

H.

G.

and

&

TUNNELL, PAUL

Company

SIMPSON, WILLIAM

SCHMERTZ, ROBERT C.

NATHAN K.

Richards & Co.

Kay,

McKelvy

SATLER, Jr., FRANK L.
Moore, Leonard & Lynch

SHELDON

H.

SHERIDAN, GEORGE W.

RICHARDS, JR., RALPH S.

NUTTALL, RICHARD V.
Singer, Deane & Scribner

Mrs.

Wertheim & Co., New York City

&

Trust

Co.

Walter Trinkle

John B. Farra

Esther Kachler

Thomas B. Kessinger

SUCCOP, JOHN C.

Kentucky

Securities

Trust Company

Fidelity

SULLIVAN, JOSEPH
R.

Schmertz

C.

&

Active Markets in All Issues
E.

Sweitzer

Retail Distributors and Underwriters of

M.

H.

SAMUEL

TERESI,

Corporate Secuiities and

Thompson & Taylor Co.

Wagner, Reid and Ebinger, Inc.
Members

Midwest

TIERNAN, FRANK
Preston,

Watt

SECURITIES

Inc.

Co.,

RAYMOND

TAYLOR,

KENTUCKY

Inc.

Company,

E.

SWEITZER, EARL
E.

H.

Kentucky Municipal Bonds

M.

&

Schoyer

„

Stock Exchange

TIERNAN, Jr., FRANK M.

415 W. JEFFERSON STREET

Preston,

LOUISVILLE 2, KY.
BELL

TELETYPE
LS

292

TITUS,
TELEPHONE
WABASH 4191

R.

C.

Watt & Schoyer

Schmertz

Ss

Company,

Member Midwest Stock Exchange

Inc.
Louisville

TOMASIC, ANTHONY E.
Thomas

&

COMPANY

KENTUCKY

THE

S. J.

Company

Qj =

Trust

Exchange Building

Building

LOUISVILLE 2, KY.

LEXINGTON, KY.

W Abash

Phone 2-1858

Bell

6818

Bell Teletype LEX KY. 476

Teletype LS 579

Tllilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllir?

™I

BANKERS BOND ^
INCORPORATED

Member

Midwest

Stock Exchange

1st FLOOR KENTUCKY HOME LIFE

BLDG.

LOUISVILLE 2, KENTUCKY

NEWPORT STEEL CORPORATION




Bell

Teletype LS 186

Long Distance 238

NEWPORT, KENTUCKY

Kentucky Municipal Bonds
Local Securities

INVESTMENT

THOMAS

GRAHAM,

HECTOR

W.

WILLARD
E.

C.

JAMES

Manager

BOHNERT

P. McNAIR
LEWIS

M.

FETTER

DEPARTMENT

WOOD

HANNAH, Asst.

CHARLES

C.

POWHATAN M.
ROBERT H.

Mgr.

KING
CONWAY

JOHNSTON, Jr.

ROBERT E. PURYEAR

48

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

John

W.

Bunn,

Stifel,

Nicolaus

&

Company,

Incorporated,

St.

Louis

Mrs.

&

Mr.

John

J.

Thursday, October 8, 1953

Zollinger, Jr.,

Scharff

&

Jones, Inc.,

Vice-President: James W. Means, Courts & Co.

Georgia Security Dealers Association

New

Orleans;

BRADLEY,
Merrill

Secretary
&

&

Treasurer: Roy W.

Hancock, Hancock, Blackstock

co.

National Committeemen: James E. Jones, Courts &
Co.; Justus C.

Martin, Jr., The Robinson-Humphrey Company, Inc.; Edward
R. Adams, Clement A. Evans &
Company, Inc.; James B. Dean,

J. W. Tindall &

Company; Frank A. Chisholm, Varnedoe, Chis-

holm & Co., Inc.

BRANNAN,
Hancock,

December, 1952; Took
Expires: December 31, 1953.

Office:

January

1,

1953;

Term

Trust

Atlanta

unless

otherwise Indicated)

C.

Morris

James

W.

Means

Roy

W.

Hancock
i

President: Jack C. Morris, Norris &

BROCK,

Thomson & McKinnon

Clement A.

Evans

Company, Inc.

CAROLINE

F.

(Mrs.)

Courts & Co.

ALLEN,

G.

French

&

TRADERS AND DISTRIBUTORS

W.

BAKER
The

J.

H.

&

Thomson

Cleveland and Ohio Securities

H.

Beer

Beer

Clement

Evans &

JR.,
A.

A.

St

F.

W.

Evans

&

BOGGS, RICHARD L.,
&

Company,

Inc.

BOUNDS, JAMES W.

BARROW, Jr., CRAIG
Johnson, Lane, Space

BO WEN,

<fe

Co.,

Inc.

&

NORRIS

Jr.,

Jr., D.

ARNOLD

Fenner

WILLIAM

I

BRYANT, EVERETT C.
Courts & Co., Newnan

BUDD,

&

SHELTON

McKinnon

TOWNSEND

S.

Dickson

&

Co.

BUDD, Jr., JAMES S.

FRANK

HUDSON

Johnson, Lane, Space St Co., Inc.
Augusta

Brooke

St

Company

CALLAWAY, THOS. M.
Hancock,
CARSON,

Blackstock

&

Co.,

Atlanta

GORDON C.

Southern

Securities

Corp.,

Savannah

MEMBER OP

UNION

COMMERCE

CLEVELAND

BLDG.

OHIO

14,

Trading Markets

TELETYPE

—

CHERRY

CV

and

Distribution Service

565

1-5050

For

ATTENTION

OHIO SECURITIES

NASD MEMBERS
WE

INVITE

YOUR

SECURITIES

COMMISSION

LISTED

ON

BUSINESS

CINCINNATI

EXCHANGE —YOU RECAPTURE

IN

STOCK

U

40% OF COMMISSION

■

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CINCINNATI'S

Wm. J. Mericka & Co. Inc.

OLDEST INVESTMENT FIRM

ESTABLISHED

1862

CLEVELAND 14, OHIO
DIRECT WIRE

GEO. EUSTIS & CO.
508

TRACTION

k



BLDG.

CHERRY 4070

CIN

560

JOSEPH

McMANUS

NEW YORK

—

&

'

CO.

Beane,

H.

£

MIDWEST STOCK EXCHANGE

&

Company, Inc.

BUCHANAN, C.

Byron

Wyatt, Neal & Waggoner
BOYD,

ARNOLD

NORRIS

Company

BRUMBACH,

BURT,
J.

Savannah

BEAVERS, J. KARY
Trust Company of Georgia

Inc.

The Citizens and Southern National Bank

Co.

LOY

Company,

STOCKTON

JR.

McKinnon

BARRETT, JULIAN N.
Beer St Company

Courts St

&

Company

Pruett and

BLANCHARD, SCOTT D.
Goodbody & Co.

Thomson

C.

Evans

Jr.,

Thomson

E.

Co.

&

Augusta

J.

Company, Inc.

R.

McKinnon

F.

BRUCKNER, JACK L.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

BLACKSTOCK, JERRY G.
Hancock, Blackstock & Co.

BLALOCK,

Co.

E.

&

Erooke

BROYLES,

The Citizens and Southern National Bank

Robinson-Humphrey Company

BARFORD, PHILIP

IN

Company, Inc.

BLACKWOOD, Jr., W. HUGH

HOI LIS

Tindall

Co.

Co.

BROOKS,' CHARLES

Robinson-Humphrey Co.

Clement A.

Wyatt, Neal St Waggoner
J.

&

Stoekton Broome St Co.

&

BLACKSTONE, LESTER

LEONARD
Crawford, Inc.

ARMSBY, J. W.
AUSTIN,

Eeane,

BROOKE, BYRON

BROYLES,

Evans

BLACK, Jr., GRADY
The

&

&

Co.

HENRY

Goodbody &

Augusta

ADAMS, ALLISON

ALEXANDER,

Fenner

BRAYSHAW, DONALD B.
Lord, Abbett & Co.

BROOME,

BEESON, JAMES T.
Clement A.

ADAMS, EDWARD R.

Hirshberg, Inc.

SAM T.
Blackstock

Company of Georgia

Clement

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

Jack

J.

Pierce,

BRAY, ROBERT M.

Byron

Elected:

In

Zollinger

Savannah

Courts St

Company Inc.;
Roy W. Hancock, Hancock, Blackstock &
Co.; James W. Means,
Courts & Co.; Eugene F. Willis, J. W. Tindall &
Company.

located

THOMAS

Lynch,

Esther

BROADWELL, WILLIAM F.

Alternates: Lex Jolley, The
Robinson-Humphrey

(Members

Miss

MEMBERS
MIDWEST STOCK

EXCHANGE

i

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Convention Number

Mr.

Mrs.

&

James

B.

CARTER, Jr., HUGH D.
Courts

&

CARTER,

Inc.,

Atlanta

J.

Co.

Johnson, Lane, Space <fc Co.,

Inc.

R.
Macon

JOHN
A.

&

Company,

Inc.

Courts &

COOPER,

Co., Athens

WILLIAM

Merrill

Lynch,

&

Pierce, Fenner & Beane

Macon

COURTS, MALON
Courts

Johnson,

WILLIAM

Merrill Lynch,

Jr.,

W.

DENNY,

Tindall

&

The

Company

J.

C.

DAVID

Johnson,

Y.

Co.

Pruett

A.

National

Bank

Clement

&

Co.,

Inc.

harry

&

Co.,

Inc.,

La

&

Grange

HARRIS,

RALPH

HEAD,

&

Co.

A.

Evans

MASON, JAMES
Johnson, Lane,

&

Company,

Space

& Co.,

Georgia

Co.,

Trust

Company of Georgia

MATTHEWS, ROBERT L.
Merrill

H.
Evans

&

Company,

Inc.

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

McClelland, john e.
J.

Hilsman

H.

&

Co.,

Inc.

(Continued

on

page

&

Inc.

Walter, Woody & Heimerdinger
MUNICIPAL BONDS

McKinnon

e.

403 DIXIE TERMINAL

Co.

k.

Evans

GILBERT

Thomson

&

&

CINCINNATI 2
Company,

Inc.

T.

McKinnon,

La Grange

kable, john lfc
Clement

Inc.

A.

Evans

<fc

Company,

Inc.

key, r. c.
&

La

Co.

.

Grange,

kilpatrick,
Augusta

Co.

kiser,

Jr.,

marion

Courts

Co.

Ga.

<fe

andrew J.

w.

Co.

THE BINGHAM-HERBRAND CORPORATION

UNDERWRITERS

DISTRIBUTORS

AND

SECURITIES

1556 Union Commerce
CLEVELAND

1707 Union Central

Bldg.

CINCINNATI

14, OHIO

Telephone PRospect 1-2770
Teletype—CV

Manufacturers of automotive brake lever




stampings,

drop

1908

OF MUNICIPAL & CORPORATE

Toledo and Fremont, Ohio

"Van-Chrome"

50)

Inc.

Company,

Bldg.

2, OHIO

Telephone Main 3776
Teletype—CI 197 & CI 150

174

assem¬

drop forgings,

forged

hand

•*.

MATHEWS, Jr., ROBERT C.

W.

ESTABLISHED

precision

Inc.

Augusta

of

Field, Ricliards & Co.

blies,

Inc.

Pierce, Fenner & Beane

richard

Clement A.

KAAP,

DIXON

Courts

&

Inc.

WAYNE

Clement

r.

&

james

Courts

jones,

Co.

DICK, Jr., JACKSON P.
Beer & Company

guy

Thomson

W.

DOUGHTY,

Company, Inc.

Tindall

W.

MARTIN,

Company,

I.

h.

Robinson-Humphrey

jones,

M.

Company,

&

J.

Inc.

ROBERT

T.

johnson, thomas m.
Johnson, Lane, Space &

jones,

CHARLES WALDO

J.

Company,

Co.

A.

Co.

Bank

MARTIN, Jr., JUSTUS C.
The Robinson-Humphrey

Columbus

jolley, lex

Inc.

McKinnon.

JAMES

Goodbody

&

LINDSEY, E.

II.

ROY W.
Blackstock

W.

WILLIAM

W.
&

»

Merrill Lynch,

Crawford,

and

LEWIS,

Space

National

MARTIN,

LUTTRELL. W. R.

Space

Lane,

Savannah

johnson,

Southern

Bradford

Beane

NORMAN

Company

Courts

Hancock, Blackstock & Co.

JOHNSON,

Inc.

Co.,

RICHARD

JR.,

HAINES,

&

g.

jelks, freeman n.
Johnson, Lane, Space

>

Hugh W. Long and Company, Inc.

B.

Evans

LESSER,

Co.

JR., WALDO
Lane,

Savannah
&

HANCOCK,
Hancock,

Clement A.

Inc.

Inc.

Robinson-Humphrey Company

GROVES,
Atlanta

Courts & Co.

W.

Company,

Co.

&

&

Courts & Co.

Jr., HENRY W.

Thomson

Fenner

I
Robinson-Humphrey

Wyatt, Neal & Waggoner

jacobs, roger m.
&

Pierce,

E.

e.

wm.
&

Lynch,

JOSEPH

LEE, R, E.

HUME, E. STOCKTON

GRIGGS, Jr., JAMES R.

HALL,

RICHARD

cabell

Co., Columbus

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

(Mrs.)

The

S.

&

w.

The

First

LeCLAIR, WM. F.
Equitable Sec. Corp.

Co.

&

hull, J.
Ga.

MARGARET

CHARLES

French

Courts Ss Co.

J.

L.

Johnson,

Valley

Sun

at

MANNERS. PAUL E.

JOHN T.

Merrill

LAY,

Trust

D.

and

VIRGINIA
&

Courts

Co.

Courts &

Courts

Courts

C.

MRS.
&

KONTZ,

j.

hunerkoph, clovis
Trust Company of Georgia

Evans

Hilsman

GRADY,

LLOYD

JAMES

Co.

HIRSHBERG, JULIAN R.
Norris & Hirshberg, Inc.
cullen

caricaturist

MALLORY,

KNOX, WILLIAM S.
Wellington Fund, Inc.

huger,

M.

GEORGE C.

Johnson, Lane, Space & Co., Savannah

^pace & Co., Inc.

Savannah

Pierce, Fenner & Beane

ED.

DAUGHTRY, W. L.
Beer
&
Company,

DEAN,

G.

&

KNELLER,

Lane,

hopkins,

GLENN, JOHN F.
GOFF,

C.

Robinson-Humphrey

DAVIS,

Inc.

Columbus

P.

A.

Citizens

CRAWFORD, Jr., ALLEN C.
French & Crawford, Inc.

The

Company.

GAY, Jr., EDWARD

ALLEN
Space & Co., Inc.

Savannah

CROFT,

Co.,

JAY

H.

Courts

Lane,

CRAWFORD,

&

ELIZABETH

ADRIAN

GARNER,

Co.

CRAWFORD,

FORD,

J.

W.

COX, ERNEST P.
&

&

carl

Johnson,

Ohio and Pancho Willmarth,

IIINDSMAN, Jr., d! W,
Johnson, Lane, Space & Co., Inc.

HOLMES,

A.

Evans

Parsons, Cleveland,

Cullen J. Hoffman Company, Columbus

STROTHER
Company

FLOURNOY,

FROST,

RICHARD

Courts & Co.

Courts

&

Myrtle

hoffman,

FRENCH, J. McCREA
French & Crawford,

C.

Co.

&

COURTS,

FLEMING,

Clement

Co.,

T.

Securitieso Corp.

Goodbody

CORN, THOS. L.
Courts

A.

FONVILLE,

F.

Company

RICHARD R.

Courts

COOPER, HOMER G.

Inc.

Inc.

Co.,

FLEMING, WILLIAM S.
Courts
&
Co.,
Albany,

A.

Evans

&

CLEMENT

FELKER,

Beer

CLISBY, JOSEPH

Company,

C.

Co:umbus

Co.,

Equitable

Johnson, Lane, Space & Co., Inc.

Clement

&

Clement

CLARKE. HARRISON

&

FRAZER

J.

EUGENE

EVANS,

Boston

Inc.,

hill,

Evans

LANDON

Hilsman

Courts

Savannah

Co.,

&

Robinson-Humphrey

H.

DYKES,

CLARKE, HAGOOD

Courts & Co.,

A.

DURRETT,

&

CHISHOLM, FRANK A.
Varnedoe, Chisholm & Co., Inc.

CONANT,

The

Maguire

OLIN

J.

Clement

Tindall

W.

B.

DULANEY,

CHESTNUT, J. D.
J.

J.

DREW,

Co.

SOSEBEE F.
and Company,

Pruett

Maguire,

49

tools
PRODUCERS of

"AMERICAN BEAUTY

Hams—Bacon
A

Full

—

Line

Food

Shortening

of Meat

Products

Preferred Stock and Common Stock Traded on the
Cincinnati Stock Exchange

k

.ij

•.

1

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

50

Alonzo

H.

Lee,

Sterne,

Agee

Scott,

Leach, Birmingham, Ala.; Garnett
Mason, Inc., Richmond, Va.

&

Horner

O.

Lee,

H.

Jr.,

Georgia Security Dealers Association

McNEEL, JR., EUGENE
J. W. Tindall & Co.

Courts

6c

Merrill

McGEIIEE, ELLENE M. (Mrs.)
Courts & Co.

Jr., JOSEPH A.
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

McGAUGHEY, PAUL W.
Equitable Securities Corp.

McNAIR,

Courts

HOWARD S.
& Co.

Courts

&

MEANS,

Associate

Members

Members

New

American

Stock

Stock

York

Members

Midwest

Stock

Members

Chicago

Board

Co,

&
Exchange

The

JOSEPH

ANDREW

Pruett

RUSS

Unlisted

and

MURPHY,

KEIER, Manager

Inc.

Norris

Courts

J.

H.

Inc.

&

Company,

Inc.,

SPEAS, J. W.
First National
Norris

&

Co.

&

Company,

SLATTERY,

Inc.

J.

E.

EUGENE

M.

Hilsman

H.

Bank

R.

Hirshberg, Inc.
&

Co.,

Inc.

STEWART,
J.

JOSEPH
Lane, Space & Co.,

T. W.
Hilsman &

H.

SUMMERS,

Inc.

J.

Johnson,

Augusta

Inc.

Co.,

Savannah

B.

Evans

SITES, FRANK B.
Courts & Co.

Inc.

&

& Co.,

Co.,

Inc.

CHAPPELL

Lane, Space & Co.,

Inc.

Savannah

SMITH,

HERSIIEL

Johnson.

L.

Company

SMITH,

H.

F.

TAYLOR,
Lane.

Space &

SIDNEY

Clement A.

Co. Inc.

Fulton

M.

Evans

JR..

National

THOMAS,
&

Company,

Pruett

Inc.

MRS.
and

E.

FRANK
Bank

GRACE

Company,

W.

Inc.

Inc.

KING

&

MYERS,

A.

STEWART,

Company,

King Murphy

MURPHY,

Trading Department

Co.

STEINIIAUER,

Johnson,

Evans

&

SPACE, Jr., JULIAN A.
Johnson, Lane, Space &

Savannah

Robinson-Humphrey

MOTE,

Courts

SMITH, WILEY J.
Johnson, Lane, Space

SITES, CRAWFORD N.

JACK C.
Hirshberg Inc.

MORRIS,

Trade

ARTHUR

Clement

Norris &

Exchange

of

Inc.

ROYSTON

SIMKINS,

W.

MONK, GEORGE W.
MORRIS,

Exchange

SMITH. WALTER

Co.,

Augusta

Rome

L.
Crawford,

A.

&

MURRAY C.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

MILSTEAD, ANDREW J.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
Clement

FLEMING

J.

Hilsman

R.
J. H. Hilsman & Co., Inc.

Co.

&

H.

SETTLE,

Inc.

PHILIP

French

Collin, Norton

J.

I

MEILL, EDWARD
French & Crawford,
MILLER,

Livingstone, Crcuse & Co., Detroit; Mr. & Mrs. Patrick B. McGinnis,
New York City; Dan V. Bailey, Foster & Marshall, Portland, Oregon

SETTLE,

OSCAR H.

Jr.,

Co.,

6c

R.

SHOUN,

JAMES

Courts

S.

Company,

Co.

McWlLLIAMS,

McCORD,

&

FONVILLE

McWHORTER,

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

Hastings,

E.

McRAE, D. FINLAY
Blair, Rollins & Co.,

(Continued from page 49)

Russell
McGinnis

&

Thursday, October 8, 1953

&

Co.,

Decatur

JR., W. BARNARD
Hirshberg, Inc.

FRANK

J.

Hllsman

6c

IN CLEVELAND

Inc.

Co.,

J. ROBERT
Wyatt, Neal 6c Waggoner

NEAL,
GARDNER

BLDG., 506 MADISON AVE.

Trust

Telephone ADams 6131

IT'S

NEAL, ROY D,

TOLEDO, OHIO
Bell System Teletype TO

190

NEWTON,
Courts

III,

&

NICHOLS,
J.

C.

CHARLES

Co.,

Bradford

&

E.

H.

&

Jr.,

FOR OVER 20 YEARS

Co.

GEORGE

A.

Company

NUNNALLY,

McKEE

Courts 6c Co.

OBERRY,

Baxter, Williams

&

Co.

GEORGE

Merrill Lynch,

O'BRIEN,

C.

Members

New

York,

Midwest

W.

Pruett and

OGLESBY,

Originators, Underwriters, Distributors of

Prescott

G.

Pierce, Fenner 6c Beap*

Stock

The

LISTON

OVER THE COUNTER SPECIALIST

Macon

ROBERT

NICOLSON,
Beer

CORB

Company of Georgia

Company, Inc.

900 National

LAMAR

Robinson-Humphrey

Company,

OWEN K.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &

Telephone:

PRospect

Co.

Other

Principal

Exchanges

City Bank Building

CLEVELAND

Inc.

OLSEN,

&
and

14

1-6300

Bell Teletype—CV 97

Beane

PARKER, LAWRENCE C.
French & Crawford, Inc. '

CORPORATE AND

MUNICIPAL

PAULSEN,

GROVER C.

Johnson, Lane, Space & Co., Inc.

SECURITIES

Savannah

PEEPLES,
Member Midwest Stock

FRANK

Clement

A.

Evans

&

Co.,

Exchange

PENDERGRAST, T. J.
Courts

CLEVELAND

&

DETROIT

NEW

YORK

Macon

EATON MANUFACTURING

PHILADELPHIA

&

Crawford,

Inc.

PRESTON, Jr., SAM W.
Hancock, Blackstock 6c Co.
PRUETT,

CARL

Pruett

GERTRUDE
and

Sc.

A.

Pruett. and Company,
PRUETT,

Inc.

M.

Company,

'erving the automotive, aircraft,

(Mrs.)

Inc.

marine and other

PRUITT, GEORGE
Byron Brook & Co.
The

&

co., inc.

Trust

Company

H.

Courts

and coil

I

F.

Courts

iron

&

6c

&

Co.

W.

RIVES, Jr.,

S.
A.

Courts

Courts

lifters, valve

brakes and

B.
Evans

&

Company,

Phone:
TOwer

1-6550




ROPER,

Pruett
SASSER,

Teletype:
CV 652

and

seat

inserts; Dynamatic drives,

dynamometers; and other similar products.

Inc.

&

Co.

BENJAMIN

&

Company,

General Offices: Cleveland

Inc.

E.

Co.
„

CLEVELAND 14, OHIO

snap

poppet,

ROBINSON, H. ENGLISH

ROBERTS,

-

spring washers;

ARTHUR

ROBINSON, ROBY
The
Robinson-Humphrey

1425 N. B. C. BLDG.

gray

valves; turbo-jet engine blades, tappets, hydraulic

valve

Griggs 6c Richardson, La Grange
Clement

STEAMSHIP STOCKS

Free

Co.

RICHARDSON.

pumps;

rings, cold drawn steel; sodium cooled,

REYNOLDS, A. ZAHNER
Courts

springs; stampings; permanent mold

castings; rotor

Co.

REYNOLDS, JOHN C.
Goodbody & Co.

SPECIAL SITUATIONS

heater-defroster units; leaf

Georgia

of

GRADY

REVSON, Jr., ALFRED F.

CORPORATE FINANCING

motor

Robinson-Humphrey Company

REES, III. A.

REEVES,

OHIO MARKETS

important industries, including

truck axles and axle parts;

RAGSDALE, IRVIN T.

parsons

COMPANY

PERKINSON, TOM G.
French

COLUMBUS

Inc.,

•

Co.

Courts

CHARLES

and
&

Co.,

Inc.

S.

JOT

&

•

Battle

Creek, Lawton, Detroit, Marshall, Saginaw, Vassar, Michigan
PLANTS OPERATED BY SUBSIDIARY COMPANIES:

6c

Co.,

O.

Dickson

••

O.

Savannah

R.

•

Athens

SAUSSY. WILLIAM H.
Varnedoe, Chisholm

SAYER,

Cleveland, Massillon, Ohio

10, Ohio

„

Company,

HORACE

PLANTS:

Co.,

Inc.

Inc.

Kenosha, Wisconsin

•

London, Ontario

Mr.

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Number

Convention

Mrs.

&

Edward

J.

Kelly,

John

THOMAS,
Courts

SIDNEY
&

*

Co.

Trust

York;

Company,

Inc.

JR.,

A.

JOSEPH

Evans

J.

W.

EUGENE
Tindall

WILLIS,

&

Thomas

&

H.

Company, Inc.

SAMUEL
Chlsholm

VARNEDOE,
Varnedoe,

Courts

F.

W.

&

Co.,

Co.,

Inc.

Courts

S.

Hilsman

Lanford,

&
Ark.

&

Co.,

&

Horner

Scott,

&

ELLIOTT,

C.

A.

&

Evans

Company,

YEARLEY, IV. ALEXANDER
The Robinson-Humphrey Company,

ZIMMERMAN,

MARSHALL
Co., Rome

&

Clement

Fort

A.

WILLIAM
&

Evans

Company,

Inc.,

J.

& Co.,

HECTOR

Cedar Rapids, Iowa

C.

JAMES

L.
Co.,

MRS.

MARIE
&

BOLES,
The

WILLIAMS, HARRY <3.

and

WYLLIE,

Sons

Wyllie

THOMAS H.

Thornhill,

&

Charlottesville,

Athens

We maintain

Columbus, Ohio

&

Co.

Wis.

Moines,

in the stock

J.

C.

S.

F.

EUGENE

&

FANNER MFG. CO.

FULLER A.
Co., Jackson,

■

Miss.

G.
Harrison & Austin, Inc., South Bend, Ind.

CHARLES

HEWITT

and other Ohio

corporations

Cassell & Co.,

Inc., San Antonio, Tex.

M.

HUNT, E.
Inc.

Charlottesville, Va.

G.

WILLIAM

Jr.,

Russ & Company,

H.

E.

New Mexico

Fe.

The First Cleveland

Neb.

of Lincoln, Lincoln,

First Trust Co.
,

Member

WILLIAM

Stock Exchange

Midwest

National City E.

Wash.

Spokane,

6th Building

CLEVELAND

Dobeckmun

KNAPP, RUSSELL F.
Securities
Corporation

the processing of many kinds of transparent films,
materials, The Dobeckmun Company has grown,

wrappers

national business serving essential industries
diversified products. For instance:

to

with many

from the original creators of cellophane cigar
a

foods, confections, phar¬

maceuticals., chemicals, tobacco,
metal

products ... bags, pack¬
age material, labels, package
wraps, box covers; in flexible
films, foils, laminated combi¬
nations.

•

.

For the

graphic arts

...

high-

finish, hard-wearing,( filmlaminated cover stock, label

Kosek

ALFRED

.non-tarnishing,

Lurex® metallic yarn,
ments,

for gar¬
draperies, upholsteries,

fine decorative textile fabrics.

For the electrical

industry...

light-weight, space-saving in¬
sulation, in tape and sheet
form, for wire, cable and
motors.

Burlington,

Little

A.

LEVY, ROBERT
Robert

LEWIS,

E.

THE FANNER

&

&

Co..

Industry". The Dobeckmun Company, Cleveland, Ohio

Berkeley, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis,
Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Portland, St. Louis,
St. Paul and Seattle. Representatives everywhere.
Branches at Atlanta,

C..

B.

sible

C.,

STILL
Corp.

Limited

Fanner

Securities

Co.,

Inc.

WILLIAM B.
Co., Inc., Topeka,

Kans.

Philipson and Company, Utica, N,
PHILLIPS, BLAIR A.
The White-Phillips Company,
Davenport,

Y.

the
product

&

—

Radiation Fittings

6

—

Pipe Fittings

3

—

Awning Hardware

7

—

4

—

Stove Hardware

8

—

—

Chaplets

9

—

Gray Iron Castings
Gear Hobbing Machinery

Industrial Plastic Products

Inc.

PLANT

Co.,

Milwaukee,

Wis.

LOCATIONS:
1. The

Milwaukee, Wis.

Fanner

Manufacturing Company,

Brookside Park,

Cleveland 9, Ohio.
REISSNER,

H.

L.

FRANK

Bond

L.

&

HARRISON

Shaffer & Co.,

Share Corporatiop

L.
Amarillo, Texas

SMITH, MARK A.
F.

W.

Craigie & Co., Richmond, Va.

STEWART,




increasing

thus

Iowa

RADA, RALPH

SHAFFER,

and foils

—

5

1

Indianapolis, Ind.

Creative converters of films

Organization

MAX

PHILIPSON,

Indianapolis

Dobeckmun

the last two years, three

2-Chills

Ind.

&

Bache

In

ALBERT

McGann

Bend,

PESELL,

—

lines from six to nine:

Scott, Horner & Mason, Inc.
Lynchburg, Va.

Albert

GROWING

manufacturing companies have been joined to

Canada

WALTER G.

MASON,

growth'of THE FANNER

successful

the

for

MANUFACTURING COMPANY since 1894.

Limited

Canada

IAN D.
Securities

South

products for essential industries are manu¬
factured in Cleveland, Ohio, and Berkeley, Calif. If you would
like to know more about us, write for brochure "A Typical

B.

"Security through Diversification" has been respon¬
Miss.

E.

J.

Dominion

Vancouver,

MANUFACTURING COMPANY

Waco, Texas

S.
Jackson,

EDWARD
Company,

Vancouver,

MAIN,

Inc.,

E.

Levy

Jr.,

Lewis

Inc.

Ark.

LEE, Jr., GARNETT O.
Scott, Horner & Mason,
Richmond, Va.

Estes

American

Iowa

Rock,

McGANN,

These diversified

CV 444

,

Hill, Crawford & Lanford,

other materials for utilitarian
decorative purposes.

-

Company

LOUIS

LANFORD,

For any industry . .. customlaminated films, foils and

or

Teletype CV 443

Telephone PR 1-1571

R.

Kramer-Gardner

Pemberton Securities

For textiles..

14

Company,

&

Cedar/^apids, Iowa

MacDONALD,

paper.

Cedar

Rapids, Iowa

KRAMER,

foils and other

Iowa,

of

KOSEK, ERNEST
Ernest

diversified business selling to essential industries

Corporation

HENRY G.

KELLEHER,

years,

V

THEODORE C.
Co., Des Moines, Iowa

Virginia Securities Company, Norfolk, Va.

Based upon

of

GEO.

HARRISON,

HOBBS,

Washington, D. C.
CASSELL,

Iowa

HARRINGTON,

Santa

NEWTON
Brewer & Becker
Jr.,

trading markets

E.

Iowa Corporation,

HENDERSON,

EWING T.

Rouse,

O.

GEORGE
Co., Albany

Tex.

Waco,

HARRY B.

of

ISAACS,

For

JAMES C.
Richmond, Va.

T. C. Henderson &

Ohio Company,

BREWER,

Company

WHITTLESEY.

Any

Regional Group

Albany

Co.,

Tindall

26

Jr.,

Wheat & Co.,

Inc.

Co.,

Goodman

Harrington

PINCKNEY

Tlllman-Whitaker

in

Company

J.

Canada

Que.,

Ind.

E.

Sheboygan,

Des

NSTA Members Not
Affiliated With

W.

WHITAKER,

A

and

Miss.

Fertig & Co.

J.

Kenneth

H.

J.

WEYMAN. GEORGE F.
R. S. Dickson & Co., Inc.

&

Walton

B.

Jackson,

S.

Richardson

Montreal,

Mason,

Pierce &

Wayne,

GRAEFE,

Co.

&

Courts

O.

inc.

Columbus

CHARLES F.
Athens

WHELCHEL,

W.

WALTON, OTIS B.

E.
Co.,

Inc.

WESTBROOK, LEONA

J.

Inc.

LEONARD J.

FERTIG,

Inc.

Co.,

WELLBORN,

WHITE,

B.

Company,

GLASSELL

F.

Leonard

Macon

Co.,

&

&

&

&

Rock, Ark.

ANDREW

First

Courts

JOHN

VIDRICAIRE,

OSCAR B.

DRINKARD,

Little

Quail & Co., Davenport, Iowa

Co.,

&

James

& Co.

Clement

Inc.

EARL M.

WEIRAUCH,

Courts

Mason,

GUS

Walton

WHEAT,

N.SJ.

GOODMAN, KENNETH

Courts

Taylor

W.

Cunningham

W.

Westfield,

WALTON,

Inc.

Inc.
VAVRA,

GEORGE

CUNNINGHAM,

Rauscher,

Jr., ROY W.
WALLACE,
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

Courts

G.

Lynchburg, Va.

Newnan

WOOLFOLK, JOHN

WALKER, SAMUEL G.

Courts

Strader,

John S. Vavra

Jr., LAMAR M.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

WOODWARD,

WEAVER,

Walter

Lynchburg, Va.

WAGGONER, T. REUBEN
Wyatt, Neal & Waggoner
H.

Vu

B.

Crawford

Little Rock,

Savannah

J.

Mrs.

&

Va.

CLARENCE

TAYLOR,

Richmond,

D.

WISE,

L.
&

Mr.

Mason;

Strader, Taylor & Co.,

Lynchburg,

Craigie & Co.,

CRAWFORD, IRA

Hill,

Co.

Pierce, Fenner & Beane

SUSIE

Elizabeth

Anne

STRADER, LUDWELL A.
Co.

&

Iowa

WALTER W.

CRAIGIE,

George

WINKLES,

Crabbe

L.

Cedar Rapids,

F.

FRANCIS

Merrill Lynch,

of Georgia

UNDERWOOD. L. DEAN
Norris
&
Hirshberg, Inc.

Miss

Mrs.

&

CRABBE, THOMAS L.

WILLIAMSON, JAMES D.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
WILLIS,

Mr.

Scott, Horner & Mason, Inc., Lynchburg, Va.

Jr., A. FRANK
Co., Athens

&

Clement

Athens

Co.,
W.

C.

H.

Rhoades & Co., New
Co., Los Angeles

&

WILLIAMS,

M.

TOMPKINS, HENRY B.
The
Robinson-Humphrey
TRAYWICK.

Loeb,

Morgan

Courts

Tindall & Co.

W.

M.

WIEGAND,

S.

Tlllman-Whitaker

TINDALL, JULIAN
J.

Carl

Keenan,

Athens

Co.,

THOMAS

TILLMAN,

J.

51

Harold
Texas

S.

HAROLD
Stewart

S.
&

Company,

El

Paso,

Hamilton, Ontario^

2.

Canadian Fanner, Ltd.,

3.

Cleveland Hobbing Machine

4.

Cleveland

5.

Poly-Cyclo Products Company, Inc.,

6.

Munray Products, Inc.,

Co., Cleveland, Ohio.

Foundry Division, Cleveland, Ohio.

Cleveland, Ohio.

Cleveland, Ohio.

Va.

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

52

Thursday, October 8, 1953

■

Wm.

Perry

Brown,

Newman,
Brown
&
Co., Inc., New Orleans;
H.
Equitable Securities Corporation, Nashviile, Tenn.,

Frank

Charles

Burkholder,

^lilltitlllllllUIDIKIIiHIIIIIIIIIIIIiilllllHllillhlinilllltMillliUilillllllhilllhll^

Arizona

M.

Zingraf, Laurence M. Marks & Co., New York City; John S. McLaughlin, White,
Co., New York City; John J. O'Kane, Jr., John J. O'Kane, Jr. & Co., New York City

O'NEIL,

Security Dealers Association

Weld &

MAURICE
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

Merrill

OVENS, JAMES M.
E.

F.

Hutton

OWEN,

BE

THE

MARSHALL

JOHN

CO.

PICKERT,

|

§

WISCONSIN SECURITIES
Milwaukee 2,

z

NORTH

WATER

E

STREET

MI

\

Wis.
1-8130

E.
&

Co.

REFSNES, JOE L.
Refsnes, Ely, Beck

&

Co.

E.

J.

P.

Ely,

P.
Hutton

&

Company

SORANSON, RANDOLPH E.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
STEIXHOFF,

=

Henry

E

461

Co.

&

JOSEPH

Beck

SENA,

jj

BROADWAY

•

TELETYPE

5

Beane

HAROLD

Hutton

F.

Refsnes,

WE MAINTAIN MARKETS IN

765

Fenner &

KENNETH I.
E. F. Hutton '& Company

E.

=

Company

Pierce.

PERRINE,

REFSNES,

1

&

G.

Merrill Lynch.

CARROLL

Dahlberg

&

F.

Tucson

Co.,

THOMPSON, GORDON

Kirk C. Dunbar

Henry E. Dahlberg

CHICAGO—Phone Randolph 6-5900

Dean

R. E. Soranson

Witter

TOMPANE,

&

Co.

EUGENE

F.

Refsnes, Ely, Beck & Co.

111111111111111T

TRIPP,

President:

Henry

e.

Dahlberg,

Henry

Dahlberg

&

E.

Company,

Tucson

F.

Vice-President: Kirk C. Dunbar, Kenneth Ellis & Co., Phoenix.
VER

Secretary-Treasurer: Randolph E. Soranson,
Pierce, Fenner & Beane, Phoenix.

Merrill

Lynch,

Milwaukee

::

Phoenix

in

unless

otherwise indicated)

ANDERSON,
Ed

Co.

ANDLAUER,

FRED C.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

BARRETT,
E.

Exchange

F.

&

MULLEN,
Merrill

Woodward

YOUNG,

HELEN

Company,

Tucson

Bank

of

Arizona

ZUBER,

C.

Zuber, Tucson

Ellis

A.

ARTHUR

Woodward

Co.

MALCOLM

&

PHIL

Kenneth

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

Ed Murray &

v

Co.

ROBERT II.

National

WOODWARD,

MURRAY, ED

TYLER

Hutton

Huttpn & Company

McGINNIS, JAMES F.
Merrill Lynch,
Pierce, Fenner & Beane

JAMES

Murray &

F.

Co.
PETER

(Associate)

MEYERS, TOM W.
E.

&

Trust

WHITACRE,
First

Wisconsin

Member Midwest Stock

Murray

CRUISSE,

WEBSTER, ARTHUR I.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

Michigan Street

Company

KIRBY L.
Kirby L. Vidrine Company

securities
(Members located

East

&

VIDRINE,

Elected: November 10, 1952; Took Office: January 1, 1953; Term

Expires: December 31, 1953.

207

Hutton

Guardian

Underwriters and Distributors of
Investment

L.

TRUAX, VICK
Ed

The Milwaukee Company

A.

&

&

Co.

J.

Zuber,

Tucson

BECK, PAUL D.
Refsnes,

Beck

Ely,

Co.

&

CHAPPELL, JOHN W.
E. F. Hutton &

Chicago Office
135

South

LaSalle

Saint Paul Office

Street

144

Endicott

Building

Company, Tucson

Underwriters, Distributors, Dealers

CUTHBERTSON, FRED A.
Refsnes, Ely, Beck & Co.
DAHLBERG, HENRY E.

in

„

'

'**

Henry Dahlberg and Co., Tucson
DUNBAR, KIRK C.

Madison Office
First National

Kenneth

Wausau Office

Bank

Building

First

American

State

Building

Bank

Ellis

&

Corporate and Municipal

Co.

ELLIS, KENNETH A.
Kenneth

Ellis

Co.

&

Securities

ELY, Jr., SIMS
Refsnes,

Beck

Ely,

&

Co.

FICKS, Jr., ALBERT
Dean

Witter

&

Co.

,

FITCHET, SETH M.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce,
GALLOWAY,

ALVIN

Fenner

&

BURGE & KRAIJS

Beane

Members

New York

W.

Stock Exchange

Henry Dahlberg and Co., Tucson
GOLTER,

(4.
NebraskaJlrt s

First

.

m




RICHARD

National

W.

Bank

American Stock Exchange

Midwest

1790

Union

Stock

Commerce

Arizona

of

CLEVELAND
HANCHETT,
Refsnes,

HAROLD

Ely,

Beck

(Associate)

Exchange

14,

Building
OHIO

G.

&

TelephonedAin 1-2910

Co.

Teletype CV 584

HARVEY,
Dean

WILLIAM
Witter & Co.

HAUSER,
Dean

RICHARD

Witter

&

Co.

HAWKINS, GERARD
Refsnes, Ely, Beck &
HICKS,

ROLAND

Co.

J.

We

generally have buying and selling orders in the

following list of

over

the counter securities:

Hemphill, Noyes & Co., Tucson
JACKSON,
Refsnes,

KATHRYN

Ely,

Beck

&

Co.

KAUFMAN, HENRY J.
Hemphill, Noyes & Co., Tucson

KOLKOSKI,
Kenneth

LAMBUTH,
Dean

Irus^

CHESTER

A.

Ellis

M.

Witter

&

McCaskey Register

Bessemer Limestone & Cement

Ohio Leather

Bessemer Securities

Ohio Water Service

Commercial Shearing & Stamping

Peerless Cement

Co.

WILLIAM

Witter

LEE, BENTON
Dean

&

Aetna Standard Engineering

Co.

Federal Machine & Welder

Valley Mould & Iron

Industrial Silica

Youngstown Steel Car

M.
&

Co.

LEE, EUGENE S.

Valley National Bank

(Associate)

LOPER, ANDREW B.
Valley National Bank of Phoenix
(Associate)
^

MARNELL,
Kenneth

TOM
A.

Ellis

&

Co.

BUTLER, WICK & CO.
UNION

NATIONAL

BANK

BUILDING

YOUNGSTOWN 1, OHIO

Telephone Riverside 4-4351

Convention

Oriand

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL

Number

C. Mayer, Idaho Power Company, Boise,
John L. Martin, Pennsylvania

Cleveland

Mr.

Idaho; Med Ilch, Idaho Power Company, Boise, Idaho;
Railroad Company, New York City

Security Traders Association

&

Mrs.

William
Mrs.

H.
&

Oper,
Mr.

Treasurer: Robert Weaver, Hornblower &

Barber,

R.

Elton

Governors:

53

CHRONICLE

Hay den,

Walston & Co., Seattle; Arthur C. Sacco, Cruttenden &
J. Bateman, Pacific Northwest Company, Seattle

JAFFE. GEORGE E.

Jaffe, Lewis & Co.
KEIER, RUSSEL E.

Collin, Norton & Co., Toledo

L.

Liston,

Prescott &

EVERETT

KING,

Jr., Parsons & Co.,

Fulton.

Inc.; Morton A. Cayne, Gottron, Russell & Co.
Corwin

E.

Ohio

Wooster,

Co.; James J.

Miller, Braun, Bosworth & Co., Incorporated.
National Committeemen: Edward E. Parsons,

CEYLON

HUDSON,

Weeks.

Miller &

Drnek, Prescott & Co.; Howard J. Eble, Parsons & Co., Inc.;
Frank L. Marshall, The First Boston Corporation; George D.

Alternates:

Co., Chicago;

Homer

Reiri

A.
Co.

&

KOESER, OR1N E.
Blyth & Co., Inc.

Co.; Martin J. Long,

LAFFERTY, ALAN E.
Hornblower & Weeks

The First Cleveland Corp.

Elected: December, 1952; Took Office: January

1, 1953; Term Ex¬
(Continued

pires: January 31, 1953.

on

page

54)

ROSTER OF MEMBERS
located

(Members

Cleveland

in

unless

indicateui

otherwise

H. M. Byllesby and Company

FREDERICK M.

ASBECK,

Oiderman, Asbeck & Co.

L. Warren Foster

Robert Weaver

Martin J. Long

Benjamin J. McPolin

^

ELTON

BARBER,

(Incorporated)

R.

Hayden, Miller & Co.

CHARLES McGHEE

President: L. Warren Foster, Gottron,

Russell & Co.

BAXTER,

Vice-President: Benjamin J. McPolin,

McDonald & Company.

BEADLING, WILLIAM E.
Beadling & Co., Youngstown

Secretary: Martin J. Long,

JR.,

Baxter, Williams & Co.

The First Cleveland Corporation.

BELLE, CLAUDE W.
McDonald & Company

stocks

bonds

BOCK, ROY E.
Dodge Securities Corp.
WALTER J.
Cunningham, Gunn, Carey & Co.

CAREY.

Sills, Fairman & Harris
INCORPORATED
Members

CAYNE, MORTON
Gottron, Russell

A.
& Co.

Public

Utility— Industrial

Cook & Co.

Lawrence

Midwest Stock Exchange

—

Railroad

Municipal Bonds

COOK, LAWRENCE

■

■.

i

COOK, R. J.

New York

Chicago
Peoria,

Kalamazoo, Mich.

111.
Emporia,
Direct

Private

Wichita,

Wire

to

Salina,

Kans.

W. E. Hutton

& Co., N.

Y.

COVINGTON, HERBERT C.
Harrlman Ripley & Co.,
DAVIS, CLARENCE F.
The First Cleveland
DE

Miller

Incorporated

American Stock Exchange {Assoc.)

Corp.

135 South La Salic Street,

& Co.

DOERGE, CARL H.
Wm. J. Mericka & Co.,

of

Exchange

Philadelphia-Baltimore Stock Exchange

GARMO, A. W.

Hayden,

Underwriters and Distributors

Members Midwest Stock

Mericka &<Co., Inc.

J.

Wm.

Inc.

Nevvr York

—

Philadelphia

Chicago 3

Teletype CG 273-2860

Telephone Financial 6-4600
—

Pittsburgh

—

Minneapolis

DOERGE, JACK O.

Municipal, Public Utility, Railroad and

Saunders, Stiver & Co.
JOHN

DONAHUE,
T.

Industrial Securities

&

Jones

II.

R.
Co.

DRNEK, JAMBS J.

A.CALLYN"® COMPANY

Prescott & Co.

Telephone

Teletype

DEarborn 2-1421

CG 864
FACILITIES
LOCAL MARKETS

EBLE, HOWARD J.
Parsons & Co., Inc.

Incorporated

EHRHARDT, EDWIN F.
The First Cleveland Corp.

Underwriters

TRADING

COMPLETE

SPECIALISTS

IN

Curtis

CHARLES
Bros. & Hutzler

Salomon

FOSTER. WARREN
Gottron, Russell &

Co.

Hayden, Miller &. Co.
GAWNE,

& Co.

GRACE. ARTHUR V.
Gottron, Russell & Co.
GRAY, WILLIAM S
Wm. J. Mericka & Co., Inc.
GREEN,
Green,
GREEN,

Through

our own

unusual

retail and wholesale distribution we offer

facilities for placement of

blocks of securities.

ALBERT B.
Erb & Co.,

Inc.

&

Co.

Stock Exchange & Midwest Stock Exchange

Associate Member

HANSON, DAVID G.
C. J. Devine & Co.

Concord, N.H.

Nantucket, Mass.

Decatur, III.

Omaha, Neb.

Flint, Mich.

Peoria, III.

Grand

Rapids, Mich.

Philadelphia, Pa.

Kansas

City, Mo.

Lexington, Kentucky
Madison, Wis,

South Bend, Ind.

Milwaukee, Wis.

Spokane, Wash.

Minneapolis, Minn.

Waterloo, la.

'

Hawkins

Wausau, Wis.

LINCOLN




Co.

AJOAUXN&CO.

American Stock Exchange

Members of

Chicago 4, Illinois

DEarborn 2-0500

DENVER

J.

E.

STEPHEN

Mericka & Co., Inc.

HOTALING,
The

OMAHA

&

HAYS, GEORGE H.
Will S. Halle & Co.

Wm.

Street

Portland, Me.
Rockford, III.

HAWKINS, DANIEL M.

HLIVAK,

209 S. La Sall€

Boston

Moline, III.

Aurora, III.

Ball, Burge & Kraus

Cruttenden

~

WILLIAM

Green, Erb & Co., Inc.

HARDONY, MICHAEL C.

Members New York

Since 1912

HARRY J.

Merrill, Turben

Listed and Unlisted Securities

•

HARRISON C.

Jr.,

FROST,

Distributors

New York

Chicago

Inc.

Paine, Webber, Jackson &
FLEEGLE,

CREATES MARKETS

•

ALBERT

FISCHER,

DISTRIBUTION

Dealers

Underwriter CONCORD FUND, Inc.

EILERS, STANLEY M.
Hornblower & Weeks

ERB, ROBERT L.
Green, Erb & Co.,

•

First

A.

STEPHEN

Boston

Corporation

MILWAUKEE
HUBERTY, GEORGE
Goodbody & Co.

New York Stock

Exchange

American Stock

Midwest Stock Exchange
Exchange (Associate)

A

54

William

J.

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL

Foral, Union Pacific Railway, Chicago; Mrs. & Mr. G. W. Hyett, Milwaukee Railroad,
Chicago; Mrs. & Mr. John I. Rohde, John R. Lewis, Inc., Seattle

Cleveland

Security Traders Association

&

Mrs.

LISTON, CORW1N L.
Prescott

&

The

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

First

P.

Doyle,

R.

Cleveland

Corp.

Thursday, October 8, 1953

Doyle,
W.

PIERRE R.
Smith & Co.,

STIVER,

O'Connor

Clarke,

& Co., Chicago; Mrs.
Incorporated, Chicago

Saunders,

Gottron,

IRVING

&

W.

Clarke,

WEAVER,

ROBERT
Hornblower & Weeks

Co.

TAYLOR. JAMES N.
Ceylon E. Hudson, Wooster

Geyer & Co., Incorporated

John

WARDLEY, RUSSELL G.
Fulton, Reid & Co.

Stiver & Co.

Russell

Mr.

&

ULLMAN, RUFUS M.
Ullman & Co., Inc.

Elyria, Ohio

ALVIN J.

SUMMERGRADE.

MacLEOD, DONALD

Jaffe, Lewis & Co.

J.

SMITH,

Co.

LUCAS, WILLIAM
Baxter, Williams & Co.

LEWIS, MILTON B.

Leo

John

LONG, MARTIN J.

(Continued from page 53)

LAZIN, ERNEST
Blyth & Co., Inc.

Mr.

CHRONICLE

WITT, JOHN P.
John

P.

Witt

&

Co.

MARSHALL, FRANK L.
The

First

Boston

Corporation

MASTERS, OLAN B.
Butler, vVick & Co., Youngstown
McGINTY, JOHN
McDonald

COMPETE UNLISTED

&

Company

BROKERS and DEALERS

McPOLIN, BENJAMIN J.
McDonald & Company

SERVICE FOR

MELODY,

THOMAS

A.

With Own Private Wires to

Merrill, Turben & Co.

DEALERS

MILLER, GEORGE D.

Los

Braun, Bosworth & Co.. Inc.
MOLNAR, ALEXANDER E.

★

★

Hornblower

&

St. Paul, Minn,

Angelas, Gal.
Sheboygan, Wis.

Milwaukee, Wis.

Weeks

★

MORROW, FRANK W.
Morrow
NASH.

Doyle, O'Connor & Co.

&

S.

La

Salle

St.

CHICAGO

3

Ledogar-Horner

Parsons

Wooster

GEORGE

PARSONS,

Jr.,
&

Members

F.

Company

EDWARD

Co..

E.

J. F.

JOHN

209

S.

Tel.

DEarborn

Inc.

PATRICK. FRANCIS J.
Paine, Webber, Jackson
PERKO,

William A. Fuller & Co.

J.

Ceylon E. Hudson.
OrDYKE.

135

Co.

CHARLES

&

LA

of

Midwest

SALLE

Stock

STREET

2-5600

Exchange
•

CHICAGO

Teletype CG

4

146-147

Curtis

F.

Perko & Company

j

•

PLACKY, GEORGE
L.

Schultz

J.

PLASTERER,

CHICAGO

Hornblower

PROBST,

Co.

&

DON
&

W.

SECURITY

Weeks

RICHARD

DEALERS

A.

Gottron, Russell & Co.

SPECIALIZED

PROSSER. GUY W.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce. Fenner & Beane

OVER-THE-COUNTER
SPECIALISTS

ROSS. LEONARD O.
Ross, Borton & Simon,

1926

We

RUSSELL

Union

Securities

K.
Corp.

RUDIN,

HARMON

A.

RUFFING, JAMES
Wm.

Address
partment.

Devine

&

Loans

Chicago
and

-

Cleveland.

Securities

De¬

Teletype: CV 240.

Inc.

Ohio's

RUNG. EDMUND J.
J.

-

R.

J. Mericka & Co.,

MEMBERS MIDWEST STOCK EXCHANGE
C.

Pittsburgh

HQ. U. S. PAT. Off.

Ledogar-Horner Company

SWIFT, HENKE & CO.

clear for dealers in New York

Inc.
-

ROWLEY,

PROMPT

CLEARINGS

QUIGLEY, JAY L.
Quigley & Co.. Inc.

SINCE

—

Largest

Bank

Co.

RUSSELL, JAMES N.
Gottron, Russell & Co,

SCHULTE, Jr., FRANK J.
Ledogar Horner Company
SHORSHER, FREE A.
Kr&'is
Ball, Burge
STEGLER, EDWARD N.
Edward

Underwriters & Distributors

N.

MIW

'

YORK

Siegler & Co.

®T

Trading markets

PHIIAPCL?HIA

Municipal Obligations

maintained in

Chicago

Public Utility and Industrial

Corporate Securities
-e
★

★

OVER-THE-COUNTER SECURITIES

★

Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.
Founded

CHICAGO
105

W.

ADAMS

3

STREET




REPUBLIC INVESTMENT COMPANY, INC.

1890

141

ST. LOUIS

2

WEST

JACKSON

CHICAGO

BLVD.

4, ILLINOIS

HArrison 7-7727
314 No.

Teletype: CG 2721

BROADWAY
Direct

New York, Kansas

Wires

to

City, Missouri and Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Convention

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL

Number

55

CHRONICLE

a

Jf-

Martin

Mr.

York City; Mr. & Mrs. Sidney J. Sanders, Foster <fi Marshall,
Zimmerman, Bingham, Walter & Hurry, Inc., Los ■Anfgeles

&

Mrs.

I. King, Sutro Bros. & Co., New

Seattle;

Mr.

&

Mrs.

J.

William

/

Abercrombie & Co.

Lovett

Co., Los Angeles; John J. O'Kane,
Co., New York City

SHAWELL,

PHILLIPS, JR., JESSE R.
R.

J.

Investment

Phillips

TODD,
B.

LEWIS W.

POLLOK,

Eddleman-Pollok Co.

ANDERSON, R. S.

A.

SCHMITT,
Schmitt

L.

BRADLEY, RICHARD

Equitable Securities Corporation
ROBERT D.
NORMAN

Crockett

A

M
J.

J. R.

Ludwig Mosle

John

JOHN
D.

Co.,

&

WILLS, R. GLOVER
Inc.

Dunn

DeC.

Scott

&

and

Wills

,

FRANCES G.
Underwood, Neuhaus & Co.

WILSON,
Co

Mrs.

G.

Co.

&

ARTHUR

COOPER,

Rotan,

/

C.

Moreland

&

Mosle

CORDTS, EDWIN

President: J.

SCOTT,

ANTHONY L.
Berry

CHRISTIE, BYRON V.
B. V. Christie & Co.

Philip R. Neuhaus

Phillips, Jr.

JOHN S.

Co.

&

Brown

Sons

&

Edwards

WHITE, CHAS. B.
Chas. B. White & Co.

Rowles, Winston & Co.

THOMAS A.
& Co., Inc.

D.

Christie & Co.

Goodbody & Co.

Schmitt, Berry

Robert

G.

RUSSELL R.

ROWLES,

Rotan, Mosle & Moreland

CHERRY,

WALTER

WEATHERSTON,

Crerie & Co.

Rauscher, Pierce & Co., Inc.

BROWN,

V.

REESE, Mrs. Mary T.

JAMES L.

BAYNE, JOHN M.

BERRY,

WILLIAM J.

WARE, NATHANIEL

Shearson, Hammill & Co.

BAYLESS,

Jr.,

Shawell & Company

Company,

Incorporated

LOVETT

ABERCROMBIE,

H. Earnest, Fewel &
J. O'Kane, Jr. &

John

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

Investment Dealers Association of Houston

George

Beaumont

Rotan, Mosle and Moreland,

Ludwig Mosle, Rotan Mosle and Moreland.

Listed & Unlisted Securities

Underwriters—Brokers

G.

CRERIE, FRANK H.

R. Phillips, Jr., J.

Vice-President: Jesse

Company,

Phillips Investment

R.

Co.

&

GORDON

Crockett & Co.

Philip R.

Secretary-Treasurer:

Crerie

CROCKETT, A.

Incorporated.

Underwood,

Neuhaus,

Neuhaus

Straus, Blosser & McDowell

T.

CLAUDE

CROCKETT,

Crockett & Co.

MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE

& Co.

LAWRENCE
& Knickerbocker

DAVIS,

National Committeeman: A. Gordon

Crockett, Crockett & Co.

DUNN, JAMES

1952; Took Office: January 1, 1953;

December 15,

Elected:

Term

•

MIDWEST STOCK EXCHANGE

AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE (ASSOCIATE)

•

L.

Dunn & Wills

135

N.

RICHARD

EDDLEMAN,

Expires: December 31, 1953.

DETROIT STOCK EXCHANGE

McClung

Eddleman-Pollok Co.

SOUTH

LA SALLE STREET

CHICAGO

3, ILLINOIS

FINKELSTEIN, JACK

Hammill

Shearson,

&

Co.

FOSDICK, JOHN JAY
&

Russ

EARL

FRIDLEY,

Trading

Markets

Iowa Electric Light &

Fridley

Common

and

G.

KANSAS

Co.

Moreland

SINCERE AND COMPANY
i

and

all

MT.

CLEMENS

650-651

GOODWIN, RICHARD H.
R.

Goodwin &

H.

Exchange

Trading

Retail

ARTHUR E.
& Co

JR.,

/

Co.

\

/

OF

W.

CHAS.

IIAHN,

COAST

Rauscher, Pierce & Co.,

Inc.

Principal Stock and

Commodity

EDWARD

HARDING,

Exchanges

Crerie

&

Co.

WYLIE

J.

HARRIS,

CHICAGO

Harris-Heath

Teletype

Telephone
STate

MILWAUKEE
GRAND RAPIDS

Winston

■

Stock

TELETYPE

CITY

PRIVATE WIRE SYSTEM COAST TO

Rauscher, Pierce & Co., Inc.

Rowles,

York

3-5700

E.

JOE

GOODWIN,

New

ANdover

CG

&

Mosle

GEORGE,

Preferreds

MEMBERS

n>

FRYE, DONALD

Power Co.

Utilities

DETROIT

Hess

&

Rotan,

Southern

Iowa

TELEPHONE

NEW YORK

Inc.

Company,

CG 252-656

2-2400

& 657

HAWKINS,

Pierce & Co.,

Rauscher,
HESS,

Co.

CLYDE

E.

Inc.

WILBUR E.

Fridley & Hess

McClung

Makris

Kramer,
La

Knickerbocker

&

THOMAS

KRAMER,

Co.

Galveston

Moreland,

B.

INCORPORATED

NEILL T.

JR.,

White

W.

MATCEK,

A G. Becker & Co.

Co., Inc.

Pierce &

MASTERSON,
Chas.

Company

ALBEIFJ E.

Rausdher,

Over the Counter Securities

&

LAIN, JAMES W.
Rotan, Mosle &
MAG1LL,

P.

LEWIS M.

MASTER,

La Master &

Brokers and Dealers in

E.

WALDO

KNICKERBOCKER,

&

Co.

Established 1892

H.

Rauscher, Pierce & Co., Inc.

Since 1924

McCLUNG, CLINTON C.
McClung

Knickerbocker

&

McDONALD, JOHN A.
J.

R.

Phillips

Company,

Investment

Incorporated
CHARLES

McLEAN,
Harris,

Rogers

&. Tracy

I.

Upham & Co.
CHARLES

Jr.,

McLEAN,

Harris,

•

1 '

I.

Upham & Co.

inc.

RALPH

MILES,,

120 So. La Salle

Street, Chicago 3, Illinois

J.

R.

Phillips Investment Company

Incorporated

Telephone STate 2-4151
1

i

Direct

EASTMAN,

DILLON

NEW

&

YORK




wires to our

CO.

Members

MILLAR, ESTELLE A.
B.

V.

Christie &

1
New York

Co.

Stock Exchange

American Stock Exchange

Correspondents

SMITH, HAGUE & CO.
DETROIT

MOORE,
J.

R.

Jr.,

F.

Phillips

A.

Investment

Incorporated
MURPHY,

J.

D.

Shearson, Hammill & Co.

„

Company

Midwest Stock Exchance

San Francisco Stock Exchance

THE

56

Mr.

&

Mrs.

William

G.

Simpson,

H.

M.

Byllesby

and

Company,

COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL

Incorporated,

Jack

Pittsburgh

CHRONICLE

Thursday, October 8, 1953

Hecht, Dempsey-Tegeler & Co., Los Angeles; Jerry Tegeler, Dempsey-Tegeler & Co., St. Louis, Mo.

Bond Club of

MARSH,

Syracuse, N. Y.

WILLIAM

Carl M.

Loeb, Rhoades & Co.

McGURK

Stone

ROBERT

T.

Webster Securities

&

Corp

MILES, JOHN P.

McDONALD-MOORE & CO.

L.

D.

Sherman

Co.

&

MULCOCK, ERNEST R.
E.

Municipal and Corporate Securities

R.

Mulcock & Co.

POPE, WILLIAM N.
William

POZZI,

1566

PENOBSCOT

BUILDING

DETROIT
WO

N.

Bishop

Co.

ROBERTS, JAMES
KARL B.

ROLLINS,

3-9565

K.

Rollins & Co.

B.

MEMBERS

DETROIT

STOCK

EXCHANGE

SCHELLENBERG, LeROY II.
William N. Pope, Inc.

MIDWEST

STOCK

EXCHANGE

SCHMIDT, NORMAN C.
Clarence

Phone

&

MEMBERS

FLINT
410 National

Inc.

Pope,

FRANK

Smith,

LANSING
Bank

BIdg.

4-8044

of

GRAND

Lansing Bldg.

Phone

810

SMITH,

RAPIDS

Smith,

Michigan National

5-7289

Bank Bldg.
Phone

Karl B. Rollins

Francis Q. Coulter

Charles T. Heaton

Treasurer: Francis Q.

Coulter, Marine

l^idland Trust Company

Marine

TURCOT,

°

J.

WARREN R.

Fayettevllie, N.
WELLES, FRANK
Reynolds & Co.

*.
M.

19, 1953; Term
WILSON, J. HOLDEN

Expires: January, 1954.

pIRST OF^flCIIIGAN CORPORATION

CHARLES
Co.

WALLACE,

\

—

Company

Reynolds &

Alternate: Edward J. Smith, Smith,
Bishop & Co.

Michigan Bonds and Stocks

J.

York

Donald L. Tiffany, Inc.

Robert T. McGurk, Stone &

19, 1953; Took Office; January

New

TIFFANY, DONALD L.

National Committeeman: Everett W.
Snyder, E. W. Snyder & Co.

Elected: January

Co.

Trust

Foster & Adams

ham, Jr., Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.; Clarence A. Goodelle,

Specialists in

Bank

TICKNER, RULAND L.

Governors: Alvin J. Grabau,
Grabau-Buchman; William G. LapDrew G. Eastman, Eastman &
Co.;

&

WILLIAM
Midland

Central

Webster Securities Corp.

H.

National

Bishop

THORNE,

,

)

Co.

&

GILBERT

Smith,

Secretary: Charles T. Heaton, William N. Pope, Inc.

MUNICIPAL BONDS

ROY

Merchants
SUITS.

of Central New York.

CORPORATE SECURITIES

Co.

V.

Smith

STOKES,

Vice-President: Karl B. Rollins, K. B. Rollins & Co.

*

J.

&

SNYDER. EVERETT W.
E. W. Snyder and Co.

President: Edward J. Smith, Smith,
Bishop & Co.

Active Markets Maintained in

V.

Leo

8-1507

Bishop

LEO

SMITH,

Edward J. Smith

Goodelle

A.

EDWARD

Grabau-Buchman

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

BICKELHAUP, ALBERT C.„
Cohu

&

Co.

BILLINGS, PEARNE W.
Cohu & Co.

Member Detroit <£ Midwest Stock

Exchanges

BISHOP, WESLEY
Smith, Bishop &

BUHL BUILDING, DETROIT
NEW

YORK
Grand

CHICAGO

Rapids




CLEVELAND

Battle Creek

Lansing

Co.

Campbell, McCarty & Co.

BULLOCK. EDWARD J.
Reid-Bullock Co.

Bay City

Reid-Bullock

Flint

INCORPORATED

BULLOCK, JR., EDWARD
Co.

BUHL

CANDEE, HORACE F.
Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co.

Port Huron

BUILDING

DETROIT

CARY, DANIEL W.
Reynolds & Co.

COPELAND, HARRY C.
Reynolds

COULTER,
Marine

&

Midland

Central New

BUHL BUILDING
Detroit

<8>

Co.

/

FRANCIS Q.
Trust

Company of

H.

York

CUMMINGS. ERNEST M.
George D. B. Bonbrlght & Co.

SCHOLLENBERGER

Mgr. Trading Department

DAY, MARSHALL W.

George D.

An Address of Distinction

EASTMAN,

B.

Bonbrlght

DREW

Eastman

&

&

Co.

G.

Co.

EMMONS. EDWARD I..

Reynolds

FINANCIAL TENANTS

ENGREN,

<te

Co.

GEORGE

M.

Orders

FELDMAN, RICHARD:

IN THE BUHL BUILDING
Baker, Simonds & Co.
Blyth

&

Granbery,

Marache

Co.

&

N.A.S.D.

Carlton

Michigan
Hentz

M.

Wm.

C.

Shannon

White,

Corporation

of

&

Noble

Co.

Co.
Detroit

Roney &
&

Exchange for

rates

less

40%.

WE COVER MICHIGAN'S

GRABAU. ALVIN J.
Grabau-Buchman

GRAY,

DONALD

William

Co.

&

Bank

Miller

Corporation

Bennett

McDonnell

National

&

&

Higbie

Manley,

Stock

regular

GEORGE W.
First Trust & Deposit Co.

GOODELLE, CLARENCE A.

H.

at

Co., Inc.

Ferriss, Wagner
of

Detroit

on

members

GEHM,

Campbell, McCarty & Co., Inc.

First

executed

Co.

N.

GRIMES. WILLIAM
Barrett

HEATON,
William

Herrick

&

CHARLES
N.

UNLISTED MARKETS

A.

Pope,

Inc.
H.

C.

Co.,

Inc.

WM. C.

T.

MEMBERS

Company

JOHNSON, ORLIE D.
George D. B. Bonbrlght & Co.
LAPHAM. BEVERLEY H.
B. H. Lapham &
Company

LAPHAM, Jr.,
Carl

M.

WILLIAM

G.

Loeb, Rhoades & Co.

STOCK EXCHANGE

Teletype DE \ 00

BUHL BLDG.

Company
&

RONEY 6- CO.
NEW YORK

Pope, Inc.

Grand

Rapids

Saginaw

•

-

101

DETROIT, MICH.
Battle

Creek

Kalamazoo

of

Convention Number

Donald

L.

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Patterson,

Boettcher

and

Company,

Denver,

and

his

dog

Chris

William

F.

57

Belknap,

William

R,

Staats

&

Governors:

Harold I. Dyer, Eddy Brothers &
Co., Hartford;
George L. Austin, G. L. Austin & Co., Hartford; Robert A.
Bligh, Fahnestock & Co., Torrington; Robert B. Calvert,

Security Traders Association of Connecticut

Committeemen:

George A.

McClure

STARKEL,

Dockham, Hincks Bros. & 1
'

SWAN,
Chas.

December 1953.

RYBECK,

AUSTIN, GEO. L.
G. L.

Gordon H. N.

Libby

Adoiph G. Starkel

N. E. Fon Eisen

Eddy

President:

Gordon H.

N.

BRUCE

BLIGH,

H.

-

ANDREW
Si

L.

Co.

WEISKE F. RICHARD
A- M. Kidder & Co., Bridgeport

WILDE, RICHARD W.
Conning & Co.

H.

ROBERT A.
& Co..

Fahnestock

Second Vice-President Nicholas E. Fon

New Haven

Kennedy-Peterson, Inc.

Libby, Coburn & Middlebrook, Incor¬

porated, Hartford.
First Vice-President: Adoiph G. Starkel, Putnam &

WILLIAM

SAMUELSON, ARTHUR O.
George C. Lane Si Co. Inc., New Haven

Brothers & Co.

BEAL,

Haven

B.

W. Scranton Si Co.,

Putnam

Griggs Company, Waterbury

William H. Rybeck & Company, Meriden

Austin & Co.

BEAKEY, EDWARD

Edward G. McNulty

F.

LESLIE

TACKUS,

PAZERA, ALPHONSE L.
The R.

inc.

FREDERICK T.
Weld Si Co., New

SWEENEY, WILLIAM J.
Sweeney Si Company, New Britain

ROSTER OF MEMBERS
unless

G.

Jackson Stelner & Co.,

White,

Hartford

ADOLPH

STEINER, 8. JACKSON

SUTTON,

Elected: October 1952; Took Office:
January ,1953; Term Expires:

In

Inc.

Shaw

Putnam & Co.

porated, Hartford.

located

and

SHURE, JOSEPH
Bache & Co., New Haven

Alternates: Gordon H. N. Libby, Coburn &
Middlebrook, Incor¬

otherwise indicated)

Francisco

SHAW, JOHN H.

Co./ Inc., New Haven.

(Members

San

SCRIBNER. WYLLIS
Eastern Securities,

Schirmer, Atherton & Co., Hartford; Donald E. Hungerford,
Robert Buell and Company, Hartford!
National

Co.,

Torrington

BOWMAN, ALFRED H.

Co., Hartford

Fahnestock

Eisen, Fahnestock & Co.,

Co.

&

MANLEY, BENNETT & CO.

BRADLEY, E. HOLBROOK
Edward M. Bradley & Co., Inc.

Hartford.

New

Haven

BRESLAV, WALTER

Secretary-Treasurer: Edward C. McNulty, Chas. W. Scranton &

Walker

H.

G.

Co., New Haven.

&

Bridgeport

Co.,

Retail and Trading Interest

CALVERT, ROBERT B.

in

Schirmer, Atherton & Co.

Detroit and

C1LENTO, FRANK E.
Shearson, Hammill &

Michigan Bank Stocks

Co.

CLAPP, CLARENCE B.
Whaples, Vierlng Si Co.
Ed

11

11

CLARK, MYRON H.

—~

Estabrook

INDIANAPOLIS BOND AND SHARE

R. L.

Eras I

M

•

IfrSP.

J

EAST

MARKET

Members

Co.

ROBERT

York Stock Exchange
American Stock Exchange (Associate)
New

H.

Day & Co.
Haven

New

•

COHAN.
129

—

CORPORATION

&

CLEMENCE,

Detroit Stock

HARRY

Exchange

D.

Denton & Co., Inc.

BUILDING

I

*

1100 Buhl Building

WOodward 5-1122
'

INDIANAPOLIS

4

»

CONNER, EARL W.
Maples Si Qoldschmldt. South Norwalk

INDIANA

Detroit 26, Michigan

Teletype DE-92

COOK, AARON

★

★

★

Putnam

Co.

Si

COX, FREDERIC R.

Investment Dealers and Underwriters. Specialists

New

Haven

DOCKHAM.

in issues of Indiana Tax

Exempt and Corporate

Hincks

GEORGE A.
Si Co., Inc.,

Bros.

Bridgeport

DYER. HAROLD I.

Securities.

Eddy Brothers Si Co.

Teletype IP-298
MEMBER

ENGLISH, JAMES P.
Cooley Si Company

Telephone MA-4321

MIDWEST

STOCK

FON

EISEN.

GRAHAM,
G.

'

DEALERS

E.

CORPORATE AND MUNICIPAL

Co.

JOHN E.

Walker

H.

GRAHAM.
New

Si

DISTRIBUTORS

Corporation

NICHOLAS

Fahnestock

WATLING, LERCHEN & CO.

UNDERWRITERS

FAUST. HAROLD E.
Equitable Securities

EXCHANGE

Co.

&

REGINALD

E.

SECURITIES

,

Haven

HEGEMAN, ARTHUR W.
Hegeman Si Co., Stamford
HOLMAN.

WILLIAM

ACTIVE TRADING MARKETS

D.

Putnam A Co.

IN
HUNGERFORD, DONALD E.
Robert C. Buell

Investment Bankers

T.

Andrews

MIDWESTERN UNLISTED STOCKS

C.

Co.,

West

Hartford

B.

Conning & Co.

Members
New York

Si

DONALD

JACOBS,

Company

GORDON

HURLBERT.
E.

and

Stock Exchange

American Stock Exchange

(Associate)«

JOHNSON. A. MAURITS
G. H. Walker & Co., Bridgeport
KNABLEIN, RUDOLPH L.
Hincks Bros. Si Co., Inc.,

GORDON H. N.
Coburn Si Middlebrook,

Bridgeport

LIBBY,

Detroit Stock Exchange
Midwest Stock Exchange

MAIGRET. NORMAN
Coburn Si Middlebrook,

Incorporated

S, R, LIVINGSTONE, CROUSE
Members

Detroit

Stock

& CO,

Exchange

Incorporated

PENOBSCOT BUILDING
McNULTY, EDW. J.
Chas.

MUNICIPAL AND CORPORATE SECURITIES

MELIA,
The

Scranton

W.

Si

Co.,

New

Haven

THOMAS F.

R.

F.

Griggs

.

DETROIT 26,

WOodward

Company,

MICHIGAN
Teletype

5-6202

Waterbury
.

.

Ford

<

MORGAN, DANIEL J.
T. L. Watson Si Co., Bridgeport

,

Building, Detroit 26

Ann Arbor Trust Bid;.,. Ann

Arbor

to

MORRIS, ROBERT S.
Robt.

s.

Morris Si

Co.

DEMPSEY-TEGELER

MURPHY, WILLIAM A.

120 W. Michigan Ave.,




Jackson, Michigan

DIRECT PRIVATE WIRES

Hegeman Si

Co.,

Stamford

MURRAY, FRANK J.

Laird,
New

Bissell & Meeds

Haven

CHICAGO

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THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL

CHRONICLE

....

George

T.

Grady, Cincinnati Municipal
Corporation, Cincinnati

|

Mrs.

Bond

&

Thursday, October 6, 1953
;

•

Patrick B. McGinnis, McGinnis & Company,
New York City

Texas;

Mr. Landon A. Freear, William N. Edwards & Co., Ft. Worth,
Mrs. & Mr. Roy V. Jackson, First National Bank in Dallas

.iLUZBERG, BERNARD F.

Alabama Security

Dealers Association

Marun

oaess,

Inc.,

Herzberg,

<5?

Bir-

mxngnam

HILL,

SIXTY-THREE YEARS

HOWARD

E.
& Investment Co.,

Crescent Finance

Inc.,

Montgomery
(lui.LLj.vIAN,

OF

BROOKS

S.

Montgomery

Hugo Marx <54 Co.,

HUBBARD, CHARLES C.
iienui'ix <& Mayes,
Inc., Montgomery

INVESTMENT

UyDINGER, EB S.
Carisou <54

BANKING

Co., Birmingham

JEM1SON, Jr., JOHN S.
Marx & Company, Birmingham

KNIGHT, Jr., ROY
Broanax

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company-

Sterne,

LEE,

INCORPORATED
MEMBERS

MIDWEST

STOCK

W.

Knigiit, Inc., Birmingham

<54

LEACH, EDMUND C.

EXCHANGE

Leach,

<5c

Agee

Montgomery

H.

ALONZO

Agee <54 Leach, Birmingham

sterne,

LESLIE, OWEN C.

ST.

LOUIS

2

N. BROADWAY

314

Bell

CHICAGO 3

MOLINE, ILL.
First Natl. Bank

Bldg.

Teletype SL 392

105 W. ADAMS ST.
Bell

Teletype

CG

Odess,

Nolan C, Darby,

Ogden Shropshire

George M. Wood

Jr.

Herzberg,

&

Martin

inc.,

Tus-

caioosa

LOMBARDO, JOSEPH P.

697

Stubos,

Smitii

Lombardo,

<54

Inc.,

Bir-

mingnam

LONG, KENNETH
Carlson

&

Birmingham

Co.,

LYNN, HENRY S.
Agee

sterne,

Birmingham

Leach,

&

MARTIN, ELBERT U.
Martin

Odess,

PRIMARY MARKETS IN

Herzberg,

<54

Inc.,

Bir-

nungnam

MARA,

V. HUGO

Hugo

Bank, Insurance, Industrial

Company,

&

Marx

Birmingham

MARA, Jr., V. HUGO
Hugo

and Public Utilities Stocks

&

Marx

Company,

Birmingham

Company,

Birmingham

MARA, WILLIAM
Hugo

Marx

&

MASTERS, ERNEST

of the Nation

Merrill

M. A.

Watkins, Jr.

Lynch,

Pierce,

Fenner

&

Beane,

Birmingham

Ralph E. Adams

MAYES, HAROLD B.

All Midwestern and Local Issues

Hendrix & Mayes,

President:

Nolan

C.

Darby, Jr., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner
Beane, Birmingham.

&

Carlson & Co., Birmingham

MOHR,

First Vice-President:

White & Company
Midwest Stock Exchange

—

American Stock Exchange (Associate)

Mississippi Valley Building, Saint Louis 1, Mo.

Telephone—Central 0282

Teletypes—SL 25, 26, 27
Private wires to:

New
El

George M. Wood, George M. Wood & Co.,

Second

Vice-President:

Ogden Shropshire, Shropshire &

Com¬

E.

Adams,

Berney

Perry

&

Company,

Branches: Bioomington, 111.; Tulsa,

Okla.

ADAMS,

Bfewiey

ralph
Perry

&

Company,

Inc.,

Bir-

agee.Arucker

National Bank

Mobile, Mobile

&

Perry

&

Company,

Inc.,

Bir¬

& Leach,

SCHULHAFER.

Birmingham

Fenner

&

Beane,

Jr., NOLAN C.

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &
Birmingham

Pierce,

Fenner

&

Beane,

Inc.,

Bir¬

SHIVER,

JR., JOHN R.
Lynch, Pierce,
Birmingham
Merrill

Birmingham

Fenner

&

Beane,

WELDON

ED DINS,

Mobile, Mobile

Herzberg,

SELLERS, PHILLIP A.
Sellers, Doe & Company, Montgomery

Sellers, Doe & Company, Montgomery

Birmingham

&

B.

Beane,

HARRY

Lynch,

JOHN

Montgomery

Merrill

DOE,

LOUIS

Martin

mingham

SHROPSHIRE,

OGDEN

Shropshire & Company,

O.

JOHN

Merrill
of

NELSON
Lynch, Pierce,

Crumpton & Co., Inc. Birmingham

DENSON,

Beane,

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner
Birmingham
*

<Ss

Beane,

Mobile

SMITH, HENRY M.
Stubbs,

Smith

&

Lombardo,

Inc.,

Bir¬

mingham

BAXLEY, MARION
Merrill Lynch, Pierce,
Montgomery

ELIASBERG, JULIEN

Fenner & Beane,

Knight, Inc., Birmingham

Cumberland

Securities

First

National

Birmingham

Bank

of

Birmingham,

-

FRAZER, FRANK B.
'

Corporation,

mingham
CARLISLE, JUDSON
Sterne, Agee & Leach, Birmingham

CARLSON, Jr., Robert H.
Carlson & Co., Birmingham

Bir¬

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane,

HECHT,

National

Bank,

Mobile

Lynch,
Birmingham

Pierce, Fenner

HENDRIX, JAMES
Hendrix

&

GEORGE
&

H.

Lombardo,

Inc

Bir¬

THORNTON, J. MILLS
Thornton, Mohr & Farish,

Montgomery

THORNTON, Jr., J. MILLS
Thornton, Mohr & Farish,

Montgomery

TURNER, LEO C.

GEORGE

Merrill

Jr.,

Stubbs, Smith
mingham

H.

Birmingham

Merchants

Company, Birmingham

STERNE, MERVYN H.
Sterne, Agee & Leach, Birmingham
STUBBS,

Shropshire & Company, Mobile
HAWORTH, HOWARD

HAYLEY, FRED

BROWN, C. BLYTHE

&

ROBERT B.

Merrill

BRODNAX, MARION J.
&

STANSEL, ARTHUR
Courts

BOYCE, MILTON S.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fennere & Beane,
Birmingham

Brodnax

Selma

FORE,

BONHAM, JOHN A.
Sellers, Doe & Company, Montgomery




T. U.

Merrill

Fenner

BACON, ROBERT S.

r

Merrill

CRUMPTON, TOM U.

DARBY,
of

ARMSTRONG, ERNEST

Bank

ROANE,

SCOTT,

ANDREWS, O. L.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce,
Birmingham

St. Louis, JMo.

Berney

mingham

Odess,

Bir¬

ANDREWS, J. WARREN
First National Bank, Montgomery

First National

Inc.,

Birmingham

ANDRESS, JAMES

Peltason, Tenenbaum Co.

B.

PERRY, W. BERNEY

COHEN, MORTIMER A.
Sterne, Agee & Leach, Montgomery

CROW, Jr., JAMES S.
Hendrix & Mayes, Inc.

ALLISON. Jr., CHARLES J.
Equitable
Securities
Corporation,
mingham

Agee

TUNSTALL

IH,

Berney Perry & Company,
Birmingham

Birmingham Trust National Bank,
Birmingham

Sterne] Agee & Leach, Birmingham

Sterne,

Bir¬

COX, JOHN B., Jr.

ALEXANDER, GEORGE
Conville & Company, Birmingham

First

Inc.,

#

PERRY

E.

Herzberg,

mingham

OF MEMBERS

minghan^

Birming¬

DRAYTON

ODESS, LEWIS J.
Odess, Martin &

Inc.,

Birmingham.
ROSTER

Montgomery

First National Bank, Birmingham

York, Chicago, Cleveland, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Detroit, Dallas,
Paso, Houston, San Antonio, New Orleans, Denver, Toronto, Ont.

Farish,

&

ham

NABERS,

Ralph

J.

Mohr

MORROW, Jr., Hugh
Watkins, Morrow & Company,

Secretary: Miles A Watkins, Jr., Stubbs, Smith & Lombardo, Inc.,
Birmingham.
Treasurer:

SIDNEY

Thornton,

Montgomery.
pany, Mobile.

Members

Inc., Birmingham

McREE, S. A.

&

Beane,

&

Company, Birmingham

TUTWILER, ALLEN
Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

R.

Mayes,

Marx

Inc.,

Birmingham

Birmingham

Fenner

&

Beane,

Convention

Mr.

&

THE COMMERCIAL and. FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Number

Mrs.

Alfred

A.

Harmet, A. A. Harmet &
J.

W.

Tindall

John

Co., Chicago; Mrs. & Mr. James B. Dean,
Company, Atlanta, Ga.
'
^

&

W.

59

Bunn, Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated, St. Louis; Esther Zollinger,
Phillip J. Clark, Amos C. Sudler & Co., Denver—on the rink

New Orleans;

1
ULMER

T.

Courts

&

CLYDE

WATKINS,

Company, Birmingham

Watkins,

WARNER

Morrow

S.

&

Company,

Directors: Everett M. Clayton, Merrill
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &
Beane; M. F. McDaniel, Webster & Gibson; Ray G. Martin,

Birming¬

ham

VINCENTELLI, JOHN
1

Merrill

Lynch,

Pierce,

Penner

&

Beane,

Montgomery

WATKINS, Jr., WARNER S.

Watkins, Morrow & Co., Birmingham

>

WALKER, JOSEPH
Equitable

Securities

Corporation,

WOOD, GEORGE M.
George M.
Wood

Bir-

mingham

WOOD,

Inc.,

Bir-

JR.,

George M.

GEORGE
Wood

&

Cumberland

Temple Securities Corporation; H. Laird Smith, Equitable Se¬
curities Corporation; Buford G.
Wilson, Jack M. Bass & Com¬

STEMPFEL,

pany.

STERN, SOL

Company,

Spencer Trask

Burkholder, Equitable Securi¬
ties Corporation; William Nelson II,
Clark, Landstreet & Kirk-

M.

THOMAS, MARION F.

Elected: December 19,

1952; Took Office: January 1, 1953; Term
1953.

W.

Bradford

C.

JACK

BASS.

Jack

NELSON, II, WILLIAM
Clark, Landstreet & Kirkpatrick,

Co.

M.

Bass

M.

BELL,

&

M.

&

NIELSEN,

Company

J.

Trask

Co.

Equitable

PILCHER,

C.

Bradford

&

HAROLD

Merrill

READ,

Kirkpatrick,

&

EVERETT

Inc.

C. EVAN
Securities Corporation

President:

Everett

Clayton,

Merrill

Corporation

Co.

Read

WILLIAMS,

Investment

L.

J.

LEE

J. C. Bradford & Co.

Co.

SHARP, ALFRED D.

WILSON, BUFORD

SIIILLINGLAW,

Inc.

G.

Jack M. Bass & Company

RICHARD

WORKE, Jr.,

ROBERT^,j/

Cumberland

Securities Co.

SMITH, H. LAIRD

Hermitage Securities Company,

Lynch,

Pierce,

Fenner

&

ZEITLER,

Equitable Securities Corporation

Securities

JOHN

National

Third

Corporation

R.
Bank

SELDING, EDWARD B.

DOUGLAS.

N. JAMES

ST.

LOUIS

MARKETS

EASTON, PORTER L.

Vice-President: M. F. McDaniel, Webster & Gibson.

•

Secretary & Treasurer: Ray G. Martin, Temple Securities Corpo¬

Mid-South

Securities

Our Trading: Department Is Active In All

Co.

ELKINS, O. C.
Mid-South

ration.

Securities

EVANS,

N.

Local Listed And Unlisted Securities

Co.

And Invites Your Inquiries

EVANS, JESSE H.
Cumberland Securities

Corporation

"If

PEYTON

Cumberland

Securities

Paul

is

We

offerings,

want

UNLISTED TRADING

New

300

HALE, Jr., R. WALTER

SPECIALISTS

J.

ALBERT

KEITH,

RETAIL OUTLETS

W.

Missouri

D.

O.

Municipals

JONES & CO.
1871

Stock

North

4th

St.
Bell

Direct
>

Saint Louis 2, Mo.

7600

y
Josephthal &

Private

Co., New

Wire

Connections

Teletype SL 593
with

York, and James E. Bennett & Co., Chicago

Co.

&

PORTER
Estes

N.

&

Company,

KEY, MARTIN B.
Spencer Trask &

Inc.

Co.

Bought

KINGINS, MERVYN J.
M.

Jack

Lots,

S.

Bradford

C.

York

Central

Bradford & Co.

HALLIBURTON, GUS G.
Equitable Securities Corporation
HILL,

it"

Exchange
Midwest Stock Exchange
Chicago Board of Trade
American Stock Exchange (Associate)

GREENWALT, BUFORD W.
Wiley Bros., Inc.

C.

find

can

MEMBERS

Gibson
*

J.

we

ESTABLISHED

GIBSON, Jr., JO
&

Odd

EDWARD D.

FARRAR, RUDOLPH S.
Temple Securities Corporation

Webster

Market

a

In Orders For Banks And Dealers

Co.

&

Eve

there

We Specialize

Corporation

PAUL F.

EVE,

ft "

Inc.
J.

J. C. Bradford & Co.

ROBERT R.

Clark, Landstreet & Kirkpatrick, Inc.

•N

Wiley Bros.,
WILKERSON,

B.

Spencer Trask & Co.

Beane.

WITH

Gibson

&

WILEY, DAVID W.

Securities

Mid-South

DERRYBERRY, LOUIS
DE

Webster

Corporation

Alfred D. Sharp & Company

M.

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

Equitable

Ray G. Martin

Bank

C.

Co.

DAVENPORT,

Clayton

National

ROBERT

W.

Landstreet

CLAYTON,

Securities

MATTHEW,

Robert R.

CLARK,
Clark,

WEBSTER,

Mid-South Securities

CARRICO, CHARLES B.

M. F. McDaniel

First American

Co.

Inc.

H. FRANK
Securities Corporation

Equitable

v yR

WARTERFIELD, CHARLES W.
&

PETTEY. HERBERT

BURKHOLDER,

J.

C.

JAMES

Third National Bank

EINER

Bradford

Cumberland

&

BERRY, WILLIAM I.
Clark, Landstreet & Kirkpatrick,

■

Inc.

W.

Inc.

PAYNE, CARE

BENEDICT, E. B.

Spencer

A

Company,

WALTER E.

Equitable Securities Corporation

m

C.

&

J. C. Bradford & Co.

WARD,
MELVILLE

Esteg

N.

TUCKER, JAMES

ROSTER OF MEMBERS
BARNES,
J.

Everett

Co.

patrick, Inc.

Company,

Nashville Security Traders Association

-

Corporation

Co.

TEMPLE, THOMAS H.
Temple Securities Corporation

Expires: December 31,

s|||P

&

National Committeemen: H. Frank

Mont-

Montgomery

\j-'

Securities

ROBERT

Spencer Trask &
&

gomery

WATKINS, Jr., MILES A.
Stubbs, Smith & Lombardo,
mingham

SMITH, MARION

&

Bass

—

Sold

—

Quoted

Company

KIRKPATRICK, Jr., EDWARD L.
rf

Clark,

**

Landstreet

Kirkpatrick,

&

KIRTLAND, FRED K.
Hermitage Securities

*2?

Company,

Inc.

Inc.

LANDSTREET, III, BEVERLY W.
Clark, Landstreet & Kirkpatrick,

LAUPER,

INC.

OLIN

INC.

INDUSTRIES,

Inc.

And Other St. Louis Securities

RUDOLPH

American

First

ANHEUSER BUSCH

National Bank

LEDYARD, QUITMAN R.
J.

Bradford

C.

LUSKY,
Merrill

IRA

&

Co.

Newhard, Cook & Co.

L.

Lynch,

Pierce,

Fenner

&

Beane

Members New York Stock Exchange

MADDEN, BERT F.

SCHERCI4, RICHTER COMPANY
Member

Midwest

Stock

Landreth
Bell

Teletype

SL 456

St. Louis




Mid-South

Co.

FOURTH
MARTIN, RAY G.
Temple Securities Corporation

Exchange

McDANIEL,

Building

M.

AND

OLIVE

CEntral 5585
ST.

F.

LOUIS

Webster & Gibson

Bell

Garfield

2, Mo.

Securities

MCLAUGHLIN,

0225

L. D. 123

THOS.
Wiley Bros., Inc.

MITCHELL,

T.

Cumberland

NELSON.
First

E.

First Natl. Bank

H.
Securities

Corporation

FINIS

American

Teletype SL 151 & SL 152 —L. D. St. Louis 340, 341 & 342

National

Bank

Alton, III.

Bldg.

61

Wall

St.

New York, N. Y.

Commercial Bldg.

Belleville, 111.

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THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

60

Thursday, October 8, 1953

,V5,
'MS

-■•■■■■

John

Latshaw,

Uhlmann

Latshaw,

&

Kansas

City,

William

Mo.

THOMAS S.
Maryland Trust Company

Security Traders Association

Stein

C.

JR.,

Stein

BRADLEY,
John

C.

BRADY,

Mead,

Miller

WATTS, Jr., SEWELL S.

Equitable

Trust

Stein

Co.

SUNDERLAND, EDWIN P.

A.

John

C.

Bros.

&

Boyce

WHITE, GEORGE M.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
WILBUR, LeROY A.

Legg & Company

Sjtein Bros. & Boyce
WILHELM, F. OSBORNE
C. T. Williams & Company,

BRUCK, H. MITCHELL
Baumgartner, Downing & Co.

WARREN, ROBERT A.
Baker, Watts & Co.

YEAGER, G. THOMAS
Baker. Watts & Co.

Inc.

WILMER

J.

Watts & Co.

CHAPIN,
Merrill

C. Herbert Sadtler

Baker, Watts & Co.

ALFRED

TAYLOR. PRESTON A.
Mead, Miller & Co.

Baker,

David H. Gilbert

C.

STROHMER, JOSEPH G.
John C. Legg 8s Company

CHAMBERS, ROBERT P.
John C. Legg & Company

H. L. Kellermann

WATERS, CLINTON C.
Kidder, Peabody 8s Co.

Co.

BROWN, J. DORSEY
J. Dorsey Brown & Co.

BUTLER,

Berry

&

City

York

New

WHITAKER, HAMILTON T.

Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

Allison M.

Gregory,

SOWERS. J. CLAIRE
Mead, Miller & Co.

R. EMMET
Legg 8i Company

JOHN

&

SPILKER,

A.

& Boycc

Bros.

Bonner

Boyce

&

Bros.

BOYCE,

III,

PREVOST

CHARLES

BODIE,
V? «•

Gregory,

SNYDER, JACK

BLOCHER,

Baltimore

H.

Florida

Security Dealers Association

BEDFORD
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

CHENOWETH, Jr., JOHN G.
Baker, Watts & Co.
WILLIAM F.

COLEMAN,

Harry M. Sheely & Co.
'

( RUNKLETON,

President: Allison M. Berry, Robert Garrett & Sons.

Mercantile

Vice-President: Howard L. Kellermann, Alex. Brown & Sons.

Secretary: David H. Gilbert, Harry M. Sheely & Co.

Alex.

Brown

ENSOR,

John

Co.

G.

&

FOUT, Jr., HENRY B.

John D. Howard & Co.

FRANK, J. CARL

Stein

Roberts, Jr., C. T. Williams

Company, Inc.

George

Legg

Took Office: December 4, 1952; Term
Expires: December 4, 1953.

ARMSTRONG,
Stein

Bros.

EDWARD J.
&

E.

BAMBERGER, E. CLINTON
Baumgartner, Downing & Co.

R.

Jones

BERRY,

Co.,

Inc.

DAVID

H.

Wm.

Harry M. Sheely & Co.

&

Trust

Co.

of

Baltimore

Garrett

&

Brooke &

IlERR,

George Carrison

William M. Courtney, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner
Beane, Jacksonville.

Vice-President:

Co.

Clinton

T.

McCreedy,

McCreedy

&

Company,

Inc., Miami.

WILLIAM J.

Alex.

Sons

H.

Clinton T. McCreedy

Courtney

President:
&

GUNDLACH, LOUIS P.

Co.

M.

GRAY, E. GUY

CHARLES
Harry M. Sheely & Co.

ALLISON M.

Robert

&

Company

GROSS.

BANEY, ARTHUR L.

Bdyce

&

FREEMAN, EDWARD B.
Lockwood, Peck & Co.

Mercantile

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

E.

Boyce

shriver

G.

C.

GILBERT,

Elected: December 4, 1952;

&

Bros.

John

&

Baltimore

R.

Sons

LAWRENCE

Jr.,

Chenoweth, Baker, Watts & Co.; William
Herr, Alex. Brown & Sons; J. Carl Frank, John C. Legg &
Company; Jack Snyder, Mead, Miller & Co.; Harry R. Piet, Jr.,

National Committeeman: William C.

of

EBERWEIN, BERNARD E.

Treasurer: C. Herbert Sadtler, Baker, Watts & Co.
Governors:

JOHN R.

Trust

CRUNKLETON, Jr., JOHN
Kidder, Peabody & Co.

&

Brown

Sons

HOFFMAN, JOHN M.
John M. Hoffman, Company

7ISISI3I3MSI3M3I3ISISJ3ISMSI3ISMSJ3ISM3J0S3M3IS

JENNINGS, ARTHUR C.
Stein

&

Bros.

Boyce

KEAGLE,

O. JOSEPH
Phil.-Balt. Stock Exchange

c/o

Kalman & Company, Inc.
MEMBERS

MIDWEST

STOCK

Alex.

&

Brown

KIDD,

EXCHANGE

Sons

C. NEWTON

Stein

Bros.

&

Boyce

KLEIN, GUSTAV
Mead, Miller &
H.

MUNICIPAL SECURITIES

Davies

Landon

KERMIT SORUM

ROBERT

LIST,

&

TWIN CITY STOCKS

Co.

KRIEGEL, LEO

UNDERWRITERS & DISTRIBUTORS
CORPORATE

STATE AND MUNICIPAL BONDS

KELLERMANN, HOWARD L.

Stein

Bros.

&

MARTIN, CHESTER
Kidder, Peabody & Co.
McCLURE, E.
Mcknight

Stein

building

MINNEAPOLIS

ENDICOTT

1, MINN.

ST.

teletype—
a

ST

P

PAUL

ST P

93

1, MINN.

117

(Corporate

Dept.)

(Municipal Dept.)

AlLison -Williams

ELWOOD
Boyce

|

MORGAN, Jr., C. GERARD
John C. Legg & Company
Robert

Company

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA

MITCHELL, C. BENJAMIN
Mitchell Securities, Inc.

NIEMEYER,

OSCAR BERGMAN

&

BLDG.

TELETYPES—

mp 120

Bros.

—

Boyce

HARRY

Garrett

&

Phone: ATlantic 3475

TWX MP 163

J.
Sons

NILES, Jr., NORMAN E.
Philadelphia-Baltimore

Stock

Exchange

PIET,

Jr., HARRY R.
John D. Howard & Co.

Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood
ESTABLISHED

PINDELL, DAVID LEE
Lockwood, Peck 8s Co.
PINKERTON,

CHARLES

Corporate and Municipal
H.

Securities

Baker, Watts & Co.

1895

FOE.

PHILIP L
Philip Li Poe & Co.

UNDERWRITERS & DISTRIBUTORS

CORPORATE & MUNICIPAL SECURITIES

RIEPE,
Alex.

NEW

AMERICAN

YORK

STOCK

EXCHANGE

STOCK EXCHANGE

MIDWEST

STOCK

MINNEAPOLIS

J.

(ASSOCIATE)

EXCHANGE

ST. PAUL

C.

T.

ROCK,

8s Sons

INCORPORATED

Jr..

WILLIAM

Williams

8s

CHARLES

Bankers

Trust

C.

Company,




BILLINGS

Members
FIRST

Company, N. Y. City

SADTLER, C. HERBERT
Baker, Watts &' Co.

John C. Legg

Inc.

H.

SENER, JOSEPH W.
GREAT FALLS

Distribution

IRVING J. RICE & COMPANY

CREIGHTON

Brown

ROBERTS,

MEMBERS

Active Retail

REIN, HOWARD E.
Equitable Trust Co.

Midwest

NATIONAL

Stocky Exchange
BANK

BUILDING

ST. PAUL X, MINN.
Teletype ST P 30

Telephone Garfield .3329
Private

BONNER & GREGORY

Wire System

—

DEMPSEY-TEGELER & CO.

& Company

Open End Telephone to Minneapolis—Midway 6262
SHEELY, HARRY M.
Harry M. Sheely 8s Co.

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'•

(

Mr.

&

Mrs.

H. Sheldon

Secretary-Treasurer: H. George
poration, Jacksonville.

Parker, Kay, Richards & Co., Pittsburgh

Carrison, Pierce-Carrison Cor¬

The officers and J. Herbert Evans, Beil & Hough,
Petersburg; D. Kirk Gunby, Gunby and Company, DeLand;
Miller, B. J. Van Ingen & Co., Inc., Miami; Howard
S. Wheeler, Leedy, Wheeler & Alleman, Inc., OrlandoJ
St.

Boice

National

Committeemen:

H.

George

Carrison, Pierce-Carrison
Corporation, Jacksonville; George M. McCleary,
Florida
Securities Company, St. Petersburg; F. Boice Miller, B. J. Van
Ingen & Co., Miami.

Took Office: October,

1952; Term Expires; November 7, 1953.

T.

WELLES

Nelson O'Rourke,

&

ALLEMAN,

Leedy,

F.

Jr., FREDERIC C.
Beil & Hough, St. Petersburg

Inc., Daytona Beach

Co.,

Palm

BENNETT, W. K.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

Beach

Ft.

ALEXANDER. ROBERT U.
Oscar E. Dooly & Co., Miami

A.

Alleman,

&

Inc.,

Or¬

A.

&

Company,

ANDERSON,
Shaver

Palm

Cook

Inc.,

Company,

Beach1

Cook

Company,

Inc.

Palm

Ranson-Davidson Co.,

Inc., Coral Gables

BARE,, TRACY B.
Nelson

O'Rourke,

Securities

Van

W.

M.

Kidder

Co.,

St. Petersburg

Fenner

&

&

Leedy,

Beane,

Company,

National

DAVIS, DeWITT
Welsh, Davis &

Miami

DAVIS,
Fenner

Bank

&

LEWIS, NATHANIEL L.
Thomson & McKinnon,

Miami

Co.,

Davis

&

Trust Company

&

Beane,

Beane

&

of

Jackson¬

A.

Securities

Florida

St.

Petersburg

Company,

Petersburg
C.

McClure

C.

&

Co.,

Tampa

Miami

McCreedy & Company, Inc., Miami

M.

McNICHOL, HERBERT T.
A. M. Kidder & Co., Miami Beach

&

MILLER, F. BOICE
B. J. Van Ingen & Co.,

Company

Beach

MOHR,

Jr.,

McKinnon, Tampa

MOORE,

111.
JOHN

Clement

Co., Miami

A.

Paul

R.
Evans

&

Company,

SIDNEY

Inc.,

Miami

J.

Thornton, Mohr and Farish,
Montgomery, Ala.

JESTER, DeWITT T.
Thomson &

Chicago,

Cook

W.

Equitable Securities Corporation, Atlanta

JACKSON, EDGAR W.
Palm

PAUL

McGAUGHY,

HUKLE, JOSEPH F.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane,

W.

PAUL

Paul

of Georgia, Atlanta

McCLEARY, GEORGE M.

HUGHES, THOMAS
Thomson & McKinnon, Tampa

KABLE,

A.
Davis &

Inc.,

C.

MATHEWS, Jr., R.

Louis

Co.,

Orlando

LOMBAKDO, JOSEPH P.
Stubbs, Smith & Lombardo,
Birmingham

GRANT S.
A.

Thomas

Co.,

Jr., LOOMIS C.
Wneeler & Alleman, Inc.,

McCREEDY, CLINTON T.

Palm Beach

Atlantic

Kidder & Co., Tampa

McCLURE, LOUIS

HUEY,

Beane,

Orlando, Fla.

HOPPER, HARRISON
Goodbody & Co., Clearwater

Paul

CROUCH, LEO P.
Thomson & McKinnon, Jacksonville

BUDD

A.

G.

Davis

&

Co.,

Miami

Inc.,

(Continued

Atlanta

on

page

62)

DeLANO, OSCAR L.

Goodbody
Fenner

&

Beane,

De

LOCA,

Merrill

H.

Ft.

GEORGE

Jacksonville

CATES, W. H.
&

Miami

Inc.,

COURTNEY, WILLIAM M.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner

Sarasota

Co.,

CHARLES

Lynch,

H.

Pierce,

Fenner

&

Beane,

DICKSON, WILLIAM R.
Kidder

M.

&

Clearwater

Co.,

DOOLY, OSCAR E.

DUELL,

Tallahasee

&

Lauderdale

Oscar E.

A.

Pierce,

HOUGH, WILLIAM R.
Beil & Hough, St. Petersburg

ville, Jacksonville

CARSON, Jr., ROBERT B.
Thomson & McKinnon, West Palm Beach

BEATON, R. A.

Co.,

&

Cook

M.

Kidder

M.

LEEDY,

HOWARD, WILLIAM R.
Thomson & McKinnon, St.

Ingen

A.

Ingen & Co. Inc.. Miami

HOLT, WILSON C.
Goodbody & Co., Tampa

Miami

&

OLIVER W.

KUHN,

Petersburg
M.

Fenner

Pensacola

HOLDER, O. J.
Merrill Lynch,

A.

Beach

J.

B.

Company,

Petersburg

Miami

Co.,

COGGIN, ROBERT W.
Thomson & McKinnon,

A.

Company,

&

Jacksonville

Co.,

Merrill

HOLLOWELL, RALPH D.

HAGOOD

Kindred

&

Jr., PORTER
Lynch, Pierce,

KING,

HODGE, EDWARD C.

St.

Cleveland

Parsons,

Grimm

Miami

H.

Miami Beach

Co., Sarasota

Company,

Pierce-Carrison Corporation,

Petersburg

Gables

Myrt

KEEFE, KENNETH M.

Securities

B. J. Van

Coral

Thomson & McKinnon, Jacksonville

The

Beach

CARRISON,

St.

Daytona Beach

Mrs.

A.

Van Ingen & Co., Inc.,

Florida

CHURCHILL, WALTER R.
JR.,

Philadelphia;

CRANFORD, JAMES A.

Jacksonville

BARRETT, JOSEPH R.
St.

&

CARRERE, HENRY M.
Merrill Lynch. Pierce,

Inc.,

Daytona Beach

Florida

&

McKinnon, Orlando

CHRYST, RICHARD S.
Thomson & McKinnon,

Barcus,

GEORGE

B. J.

JOHN M.

CLARKE,

Hudson,

HEAGERTY, WILLIAM

Jacksonville

CARDEGNA, JOHN
Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

BARNES, DAVID

T.

Kidder

M.

Oakes

Beach

Palm

St. Petersburg

CAMPBELL, JR., ALEX

AYERS. IRA C.
Anderson

St. Petersburg

Kidder & Co.,

BRUNDAGE, CHARLES F.
A.

&

Mary

HASZ,
Jacksonville

Thomson & McKinnon,

Thomas

Kidder & Co.,

M.

CHRYST,

B.

J.

COOK, THOMAS M.

BRAYSHAW, DONALD B.
Lord, Abbett & Co., Atlanta, Ga.

Co.,

ANDERSON, WALTER T.
Anderson

Beane,

Thomson & McKinnon, Miami

Lakeland

PAUL G.
St. Petersburg

&

&

BRADY, EUGENE P.

ALLEN, J. EVERETT
Allen

Fenner

Lauderdale

M.

Thomson

Palm

BOWER, C. H.

lando

FRANCIS

and Company,

CLAYTON

COOK, ROBERT H.

BIEDER, G. L.

MONROE

Wheeler

Childress

COOK, KENNETH
Anderson Cook Company, Inc.,

BEIL,

AHBE, JOHN L.
Harris, Upham

CHILDRESS,

COLEY, MARION H.
T. Nelson O'Rourke, Inc., Daytona Beach

ROSTER OF MEMBERS
ADAMS,

Mrs.

CHRYST,

Governors:

F.

61

ROBERT L.

Dooly & Co., Miami

CLAUDE

Thomson

&

McKinnon, St, Petersburg

DUSKIN, JOSEPH
Thomson

&

MITTON, INVESTMENTS

J.

If.

McKinnon,

Palm

Municipal—SECURITIES—Corporate

Beach

EDWARDS, W. RAY
A twill

Oakes

&

ELLIOTT,

Municipal Bonds, Railroad, Public Utility

Lynch,

Pierce,

Fenner

&

Beane,

Fenner

&

Beane,

Beach

St.

Petersburg

ENGLISH.

and

Insurance

Stocks.

Key West

EMERSON, W. A.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

Palm

Mutual Fund Shares and Bank

Specializing in Western Stocks

M.

Company,

RAYMOND J.

Merrill

Industrial Securities

Co., Miami Beach

JACOB

ELIAS,

Dealers in

and

&

338 U. S. National Bank

EDWARD

Building

L.

Gordon Graves & Co.,

Miami

DENVER 2, COLORADO

ERICKSEN, ARTHUR C.
T. Nelson O'Rourke, Inc., Daytona Beach

ERICKSEN,
T. Nelson

A. P. KIBBE & CO.
42

W. BROADWAY

ALLEN

EWING,
Allen

SALT LAKE CITY
Bell

1, UTAH

C.

A.

C.

Ewing

Kidder

M.

Atwill

buying

or

Bay Petroleum
Big Horn Powder River

selling the securities of:

Cheyenne Oil Ventures

Equity Oil Co.
Frontier Refining Co.
Golden Cycle Corp.
Ideal Cemept Company
Kinney Coastal Oil Co.

Colorado Central Power Co.

Kutz Canon

Black

Hills

Power

&

Light

Central Bank & Trust Co.

Colorado Interstate Gas

Mountain Fuel

Colorado Milling & Elevator Co.
Cresson Consolidated Gold

Mountain States Tel. &

Daniels

&

Fisher Stores Co.

Denver-Chicago Trucking
Bank

Denver

National

Denver

Tramway Corporation

Empire

State

Petroleum

Company,

&

of

Miami

Pierce,

Miami
Fenner

&

Beane.

INVESTMENTS

W.

H.

Freeman

& Co.,

Ft. Meyers

FREEMAN, ROBERT T.
A.

Kidder & Co.,

M.

Sarasota

FREDERIC R.
Securities Corp., Tarry town, N.

Local

GAISER,
Axe

Tel.

Co.

Company of America

Sioux Oil Co.

National Bank

United States

Potash

Company

&'

DAVID
Lynch,

GERLI,

Merrill
Palm

a

Specialty

Co., Lakeland

Pierce,

Fenner

&

Beane,

JOSEPH J.
Lynch, Pierce,

Fenner

&

Beane

Beach

GIVENS,

Inc.

Municipal & Corporation

Securities

GARNER, J. FRANKLIN

Welsh, Davis

United States

Y.

GAITHER, T. RAY
Goodbody & Co., St. Petersburg

Supply Co.

Woodward Oil,

Underwriters &. Distributors

FREEMAN. HOWARD W.

Oklahoma Oil Co., Inc.
Potash

Jacksonville

Ft. Lauderdale

EMERY
E. Dooly & Co.,

FOISY, M. L.
Merrill Lynch,
St. Petersburg

interested in

Co.,

Co.,

HENRY M.

Oscar

are

&

&

FISHMAN,

FLINN,

We

O.

EWING, CLAUDE M.

Phone 4-0501

System Teletype SU 560

CARLTON

O'Rourke, Inc., Daytona Beach

EVANS, J. HERBERT
Beil & Hough, St. Petersburg

Merrill

Phone MA. 6281

Miami

GRADY,

Amos C. Sudler & Co.
First National Bank Bldg., Denver
Private

Wire

Troster,

Singer

&

DN 490
Co.,

New

KEYstone 0101
York

City

The

HENRY W.

Robinson-Humphrey Company,

Atlanta

GRIGSBY.
John

WILLIAM

Nuveen

A.

&^Co., Chicago

GUNBY, D. KIRK

Specialists Rocky Mountain Region Securities




A.

M.

Kidder & Co.,

DeLand

Inc.,

VdmWritwtrClirisknsmjM
INVESTMENT

BANKERS

SEVENTEENTH STREET

DENVER (2) COLO.

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Mrs. Margaret Arnold,

HAROLD
Lynch, Pierce,

SCIIULER,

Security'Dealers Association

Merrill

M.

PIERCE,

SHARP, NATHAN

-

Inc., Miami

Merritt & Co.,

KNEALE
Pierce,

MORGAN,
Merrill

Lynch,

Fenner

&

Beane,

Miami

A.

Kidder &

M.

T. Nelson

A.

Frank

Newman

&

ROBERT

E.

NOEL,
The

A.

Miami

Ft.

Kidder

Williams

&

JAMES

Inc., Orlando

T. Nelson

&

R.

Co., St. Petersburg

Fenner

&

Beane,

Lauderdale

Gordon

Orlando

H.

Investment

Graves

ROBINSON,
Company,

Grimm

&

Miami

SULLIVAN.
W.

&

Beane,

Lynch,

Fenner

&

Beane,

Thomson

&

McKinnon,

PETERS, JOHN N.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

Atwlll

Miami

Lynch,

Pierce,

.tenner

& Beane,

&

FREDERICK

Williams

Inc.,

Investment

Co.,

WINTERS,

Company,

Tallahassee

Gordon

H.

WEYMAN, GEORGE F.
R..S. Dickson & Co., Inc.,

JONATHAN
Graves

WRIGHT

Jacksonville

A.

M. Kidder

WULBERN,
R. S.

Atlanta

&

P.

& Co.,

E.

H.

Co., Miami

GARLAND

Ft. Lauderdale

B.

Dickson & Co., Inc., Charlotte, N. C.

Inc.

Fenner

&

Seattle

Beane,

Security Traders Association

M.

Miami

Co.,

Jacksonville

Co.,

GEORGE H.
&

Lombardo,

Inc.,

Ala.

JAMES

Nelson

B.

& Goss,

Inc.,

Palm Beach

SYMONS, GEORGE K.
Florida Securities Company,
St.
Petersburg
A.

McKinnon.

Miami

&

Company,

&

Miami

Co.,

Beach

TRIPP
New

SALKAY, ZOLTAN
Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

PHELPS, ORIN M.

Petersburg

&

Oakes

Fenner

&

Beane,

&

Co., Lakeland

HAROLD
&

J.

McKinnon,

Miami Beach

CO.

York

TUFFLI,

Jacksonville

Miami

Kidder

Thomson

CLIFFORD U.
Ranson-Davidson Co., St.

Beane,

M'.

THROM,

SADLER,

Fenner

Miami Beach

Gordon Graves &

&

ROGERS, ROBERT C.

CECIL B.

Thomson

Merrill

WILLIAMS,

TERRY, LINTON H.

Pierce,

ROGERO, A. C.

Palm Beach

PEPPER,

Beane,

Orlando

PEARSON, JAMES
Merrill

&

&

Smith

Sullivan,

Fenner

&

NORMAN E.

JR..

Stubbs,

Orlando

ROBINSON. HUGH B.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

T. NELSON
O'Rourke, Inc., Daytona Beach

Lombardo,

Pierce,

Graves

Kidder

M.

Birmingham,

Co.,

York

N.

Petersburg

St.

L.

Lynch,

STUBBS,

ALEX

Co.,

R.

STERLING,
A.

&

New

JOSEPH

Co.,

Jacksonville

Lauderdale

Gordon

Pierce,

Kidder

M.

JR.,

&

Miami

C.
Pierce-Carrison Corporation,

Company,

SOBODA, Jr.. EDWARD

E.

Lynch,

A.

WELLBORN,

M.

&

Fenner

JR., MILES A.
Smith & Lombardo,

WATSON, RAYMOND E.

I.
&

Shaver

Birmingham, Ala.

Petersburg

St.

Sanders

Merrill

ROBERTSON, LEWIS B.

Co.,

Co.,

HERBERT

SMITH,

Tampa

Co.,

Ft.

Kidder

Jacksonville

O'ROURKE,

&

Goodbody & Co., St. Petersburg

E.

&

S.

WHITEHEAD, CLINTON S.

Pierce.

Lynch,

HOWARD

Wheeler A: Alleman, Inc., Orlando

WHEELER,

JOHN

Beach

Palm

Stubbs,

C.

STANLEY

SR.,

Shaver

V.
Chicago

Co.,

Leedy,

Birmingham

ROBERTS, Jr., ALBERT

ROBERT

&

HENRY
Stubbs, Smith

I).

REMILLARD,

W. J.

M.

M.

Shaver

&

UHEELEll.

Boston

WATKINS,

STANLEY C.
Co., St. Petersburg

SMITH,

Co., St. Petersburg

Kidder

E.

Beach

JR.,

Vance,

MORGAN

W.
&

Merrill

Crummer Onmoany,

O'REILLY,
•

Co.,

Coral Gables

Kidder & Co.,

NOWELL,

M.

A.

FRANK D.

M.

SHAW,

S.

Petersburg

READ,

NEWMAN,

A.

PIERCE,

PRESCOTT, BARNARD

W. Palm Beach

NEWMAN,

SHAVER,

Shaver

Sullivan, Nelson & Goss, Inc.

D.

Jacksonville

PIERCE, ROBERT J.
Pierce-Carrison Corporation, Jacksonville
THOMAS

Delray

Co.,

&

FLOYD N.
\
Shaver & Co., St. Petersburg

SHAVER,

POWELL,

R.

O'Rourke, Inc., Daytona Beach

CARL L.

NELSON,

Corporation,

EDWARD

Nuveen

RYN,

Merrill

S.

Upham

SHAVER,

PIERCE, PAUL L.
Leedy, Wheeler & Alleman, Inc., Orlando

St.

Jacksonville

Co.,

ARCHIBALD

MORRISON,

C.

Florida Securities Company,

JOHN J.

MORLEY,

CLYDE

Pierce-Carrison

Inc., Miami

MOORE, VICTOR

John
VAN

1953

Convony^Ctadnjwti; EaH ^Hagensieker, Reinholdt £ Gardner,

VALENTINE, KIMBALL
Vance, Sanders & Company,
VALLELY,

Miami

&■ Co.,

Kidder

Harris,
MOORE, PEGGY
King Merritt & Co.,

Beane,

&

SEABER, ALFRED M.
A.

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

Fenner

Lauderdale

Ft.

(Continued from page 01)

King

J- Hudepohl, West/teW and

New York City; John F. McLaughlin, McLaughlin, Rcuss & Co., New York City

Florida

Thursday, October 8,

City

Jr.,
&

GILBERT

Company,

F.

H.

Miami

Clyde Berryman

William H. Oper

Richard Langton

Sidney J. Sanders

UFFORD, HENRY M.
Calvin

Bullock,

Ponte

Vedra

Beach

President: H. Clyde

Berryman, Merrill Lynch, pierce, Fenner &

Beane.

Vice-President: William H. Oper, Walston & Co.

Secretary: Richard Langton, J. R. Williston, Bruce & Co.
Treasurer: Sidney J. Sanders, Foster & Marshall.
National Committeeman: William T.

Growing

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

With The Intermountain West
'

'

,j

:

ATKINSON, Jr., REILLY
H.

Mountain
its scope

Fuel

Supply Company is steadily increasing

of operation in the intermountain

MACLEOD, EDGAR B.

Pratt & Co.

P.

BAIR.D,
J. R.

.

•

WILLIAM

MacLeod

D.

MacRAE,

Williston, Bruce & Co.

BARNET,
Foster

Foster

&

Marshall

occurring all along the line—in explora¬

in number of wells drilled,

number of

in

new

construction,

in

employes, taxes paid, etc.

Securities

The

Pacific

Company
K.

&

M.

Marshall
ERWIN

ROBERT

Bank

of

Seattle

A.

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

OPER, WILLIAM H.
&

Co.

DAVID

Merrill

EDWARD

Witter

Dean

Merrill

PADEN,

.

Northwest

•

Pacific National

Walston

Exchange, Inc.

ROBERT E.

EASTER,

&

NATHANE,

BISSELL. M. LAWRENCE

DANIEL,

Co.

MOREHEAD.

BATEMAN, HOMER J.
Pacific Northwest Company

west.

&

ROBERT

MEYER, DONALD A.

GEORGE

BERRYMAN, H. CLYDE
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

Acceleration is

tion,

Patten, Jr., Blyth & Co., Inc.

Alternate: John I. Rohde, John R. Lewis, Inc.

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

PATTEN, Jr., WILLIAM T.
Blyth & Co., Inc.

Co.

PERRY, LEONARD
EASTER, F.

Ours is
to

meet

a

the

long-range

program,

the objective of which is

ever-increasing needs of the communities

Dean

KENNETH

Witter

&

Grande

Foster

&

Pacific

-

RAFF,
Wm.

P.

Northwest

ROHDE,

VICTOR
Hemmen

S.

Investment

the
gas
we

is

significant to note that during the last ten

population in this

area

increased 36%; the amount of

supplied increased 100%—and the number of
served increased

years

customers

HEMPHILL, WALDO
Waldo Hemphill &

John

JOHN
R.

Blyth & Co.,

FUEL

Dean

SUPPLY

COMPANY

LANGTON,
J.

Exploration, Production and Pipe Line Offices,




Rock

Springs,

Wyo.

Bramhall

Co.

Witter

LEE,

R.

J.

Bank

STEIN. WALDEMAR L.

&

Co.

&

Co.

RICHARD

Williston, Bruce & Co.

BARNEY'

Hughbanks Incorporated

LEWIS, JOHN ft.
John R. Lewis, Inc.

Ss

SWANTNER,

ANDREW A.

Witter

J.

Marshall

SOHA, Jr., ANDREW
Seattle Trust and Savings

Corp.

KEEN, BRUCE
Dean

Principal offices — Salt Lake City, Utah

&

&

SCHLICTING, HUGH R.
Wm. P. Harper & Son & Co.

HOWARD W.

Walston

SIDNEY

Inc.

National Securities

JORDAN,

MOUNTAIN

Foster

JONES, JACK E.

200%.

I.

Lewis, Inc.

Co.

JOHNSON, PAUL G.

JONES,

Company

Co.

SANDERS,

It

Company

ROBERT

Pacific

v

Harper & Son & Co.

HEMMEN,
George

Northwest

Marshall

HARTLEY, TALBOT

Si

Co., Inc.

PHILLIPS, JOSEF C.

"

FOULDS, CLINTON

we

serve.

&

Co.

...

•

Dean

Stein

OSCAR

Witter

&

Co.

TAYLOR. C. ARNOLD
Wm. P. Harper <fe Son
TOWNSEND.
Bank

of

California,

WATERMAN,
Earl

F.

CHARLES

JOSLYN

Waterman

&

&

Co.

R.

N.

A.

H.
Co.
^

YEADON,

Bai\k

GORDON

of California

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*

Star

C. Koerner, F. S. Moseley & Co., Chicago; Martin J.
Long, The First Cleveland Corporation,
Cleveland; Felix E. Maguire, Stroud & Company, Incorporated, Philadelphia; John S. Weller, Wagenseller & Durst, Inc., Los Angeles; Donald E. Summerell,
Wagenseller & Durst, Inc., Los Angeles

Twin

City Security Traders Association, Inc.

GOODMAN.
Francis

GOTH,

B.
Van
Arsdale, Blyth & Co., Inc., Los Angeles; Robert W. Pitt, Blyth & Co., Inc.»
Portland, Oregon; William T. Patten, Jr., Blyth & Co., Inc., Seattle; Harry L. Nelson,
Blyth & Co., Inc., Chicago; Charles B. Harkins, Blyth & Co., Inc., San Francisco

DONALD

I.

du

FRED

Irving J.
St.

Nieland

Pont

F.

MASEK,

&

Co.

M.

S.

JOSEPH

H.

Bishop

MATSCHE,

Rice

&

Company,

Inc.

Paine,

Paul

SHUTE,

E.

Jackson

Kalman

Curtis

&

St. Paul

ALPHONSE

First

National

HENNINGS,

J.

HENRY

Northwestern

McKENDRICK,

Bank

of

Minneapolis

B.

&

Co..

Inc.

of

Bank

Minne¬

Williams-McNaghten

SPACE,

apolis

MILLER,

HUNT, JOHN

W.

&

Merrill

JOAS.

GEORGE

KENNETH

Company,

Inc.

Beane

Mannhelmer-Egan,

First National Bank of Minneapolis.
Irving J. Rice & Company, Incor¬

Vice-President: Fred S. Goth,

porated,

S^. Paul.

John

Secretary: Joseph C. Mahoney, C. D. Mahoney & Co.,

Minneapolis

National Bank, Minne¬

GUYBERT

PLUMLEY,
&

Co..

Harris,

Inc.

KOOP,

Lynch,

Fenner

&

Beane

Minneapolis; Henry B. Hennings, Northwestern National Bank of Minneapolis.

.

First

GEORGE

National

Minneapolis.

MAHONEY,

Fred

Alternates:

J^mes E.

Rice & Company, Incorpo¬

Goth, Irving J.

S.

rated, St. Paul; Cornelius D. Mahoney, C. D.
Minneapolis.

Mahoney & Co.,

C.

D.

D.

H.

E.

St.

Minneapolis

A

Paine,

Co.

Co.

CORNELIUS

RUDD,

D.

Piper,

Mahoney & Co.

J.

it

Co.

First

Curtis

M.

Byllesby

and

Company,

Incor¬

M.

PAUL A.

Dain

&

Company

National

Bank

of

Minne¬

apolis
TARRAS, ARTHUR C.
A.

J.

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

Tarras &

Co., Winona

WITTENBERG, WILBER W.

Jackson

&

Curtis

Blyth & Co., Inc.
WIKMAN, DALE R.

COLDEVIN C.

Jaffray &

C.

(Associate)

CHESTER M.

National

&

Stelchen & Co., Inc.

Northwestern

Merrill

Hopwood

Lynch,

WIKMAN,

SEMPF, WALTER J.

Mahoney & Co.

Jackson

TALBOT, O. JACK

CHARLES

Webber,

J.

STONER,

W.

Irving J. Rice & Company, Inc., St. Paul

ROWND,

&

Webber,

porated

Paul

IRVING J.

Merrill

MAHONEY, JOSEPH C.
C.

Moody,

Prescott

J.

RIEGER,

A.
of

Bank

Bennett

&

Woodard-Elwood

MACH, ROBERT F.

Smith, Barney & Co.,

National Committeeman: Kenneth C. Joas,

E.

RICE,

WARDWELL

Officers and George A. MacDonald,

First National Bank of

W«

Company, Inc.

STILLMAN, GEORGE H.

RAND, ARTHUR H.

Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood

MacDONALD,

&

N.

ALFRED

PRESCOTT,

Pierce,

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

Committee: The

Executive

Company

STEICHEN, ROMAN J.

Upham & Co.

Juran

Company

WILLIAM W.

W.

Minneapolis;

M.

PREESHL, F. WARREN

G.

KLEMOND, EMIL J.,

LEWIS,

apolis.

JOHN

of

B.

STEELE, JOHN F.

Paul

Inc., St.

Caldwell, Phillips Co., St. Paul

EMIL

Kinnard &

G.

Merrill

-

Treasurer: Ernest R. Gearino, Marquette

KINNARD.

HARRY

Paine,
PHILLIPS,

C.

Johnson-McKendrlck

President: Alphonse J. Grun,

Bank

of

St.

M. H.

Paul

E.

Pierce,

Fenner

&

Beane

W.

Bishop & Co.

ROSTER OF MEMBERS
located

(Members

Minneapolis

In

unless

otherwise Indicated)

COLLINS, HOMER
Homer Collins &

Co., Duluth

(Associate)

MALCOM M.
Republic Company

ALDRTCH.
Central

DAYTON, LEONARD V.
Smith, Barney & Co.

ANDERSON, DONALD N.
First National Bank oi St. Paul. St. Paul
ARMS.
J.

JAMES

P.

Arms,

P.

Dain

M.

Smith,

CARROLL n.

& Hopwood

Piper, Jaffray
J.

DEVINE, OWEN C.

Incorporated

BABCOCK, Jr.,

BAMBENEK,

J.

RIES

&

FERGUSON,

&

FISK. WALLACE K.
John Nuveen & Co.,

Curtis

FLODIN.

CLAREY,
Keenan

COHEN,
J.

M.

JOHN M.
& Clarey,

&

Research

M.

Corp.

&

H.

EMIL
Bishop

GEARINO.

E.

&

St.

of the Snake River Valley

Oregon

eastern

a

—

—

an area

firm foundation for continued growth: These

tremendous

portion

resources

productivity of irrigated land

adaptability of soil and climate to diverse

SSSSS

of

ideal

$1.00 Each.

—

sunshine,

Issue—Prints May Be

recreational

This Includes Postage

the

—

and

absence

of

a

processing and construction industries

scenic

resources

"one-crop"

economy

LEE

plus

an

abundance of Low

hydroelectric

power

c/o CAMERA SHOP
SUN VALLEY,




sources

for livestock raising

conditions

substantial extractive,

—

BOB

crops

of water from controlled

plenty

minerals and forests

For Pictures in Convention

WRITE

a

unique combination

are:

abundance of natural

an

Co.

R.

GIESEK, WILLIAM H.
M. H. Bishop & Co.

Company

at

a

Paul

lots

Had

comprising southern Idaho and

is distinguished by several advantages which form

Marquette National Bank

Inc.

MERRILL M.
Dain

of

of assets,

Jackson

Securities

The economy
^

FIELD, HAROLD L.
Jamieson & Co.

BORIN, LEIGHTON
National

HUGH

Blyth & Co., Inc.

HOWARD

Webber.

In The Territory Served By Idaho Power Company

Company

BISHOP, MORLAN H.
M. H. Bishop <Se Co.

Paine,

& Co.

Barney.

GRANT A.
Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood

FELDMAN,

BERGMAN, OSCAR M.
Allison-Williams Company

BOOTH.

Recipe For Continued Growth

f

IDAHO

.

WALTER P.

Kalman

Barney & Co.

JOHNSON.

KERMIT

STARN,

R.

Ernest R. Gearino

Joseph C. Mahoney

Goth

Fred S.

Alphonse J. Grun

'

'

.

MYERS, THEODORE A.

V.

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner &

Smith,

St. Paul

•

Woodard-Elwood & Co.

JOSEPH R.

Kalman

Midland National Bank

JACKISH,

'

Allison-Williams

Co.

Inc.,

Company,

JACK P.

SORUM.

McNAGHTEN, ROBT. S.

National

&

First National Bank

EDWARD

Johnson-McKendrick

LLOYD

H.

.,*'•*

SMITH,

GRUN,

Co.

&

SIVERSON,

PAUL E.

Webber,

PRESTON B.

Jamieson

& Co.

IDAHO
•-

A

CITIZEN

V POWER

WHEREVER

IT

SERVES

-

Cost

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

(standing)
Bernard

Duke

F.

Carl

Marks

Angeles;

A.

Co.,

Hunter

Robert

Co., Inc., New
Shane
New

W.

York

McOmber,

York

(seated)

City;

Miller

John

Robert

N.

&

W.

Co.,

Trevor

Currie,

Wilbur

Krisam,

Baird

Nieland

&

Co.,

Milwaukee;

Van Arsdale,

B.

Angeles;

Los

Fuerbacher,

York;

Denver;

New

Inc.,

Company,

&

Haack,

Revel

City;

Corporation,

Securities

Sullivan

Bosworth,

York;

New

&

Reuss

&

Hunter,

Kennedy,

Incorporated,

Walter,

George

Woody

&

Blyth
V.

Denver,
Geyer

Barney
&

Co.,

Hunt,

Thursday, October 8, 1953

Colo.;
&

Co.

Nieman,

Inc.,

Los

McLaughlin,

Heimerdinger,

Cincinnati
James

E.

Jones,

Courts

&

Co.,

Atlanta;

David

F.

Cerf,

Ludman

AMERICAN

C.

N.

N.

Wilson,

N.

DEALERS

OSCAR

DISTRIBUTORS

N.

BURNETT

Greensboro,
CALHOUN

CO.

SONS

&

Winston-Salem,

UNDERWRITERS

TRUST

&

C.

BROWN

ALEX

C.

BANKING

BRANCH

Pacific Northwest

C.

BEMAN

E.

Laurinburg,

of

Fla.

COMPANY

TRUST

Charlotte,

Specialists in Securities

Miami,

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

Securities Dealers of the Carolinas
r

North

Corporation,

N.

&

C.
CO.

C.

CO.

&

Spartanburg, S. C.

JUNE S. JONES & CO.

CANADY

(LLOYD

Raleigh,

INVESTMENT

TRUSTS

SECURITIES

CORPORATE

•

MUNICIPAL

Securities

SINCE

U.

S.

BANK

BUILDING
AT.

Raleigh,

STOCKS

&

BONDS

&

CO.

Corporation

N. C.
SECURITIES

CAROLINA

CORPORATION

Raleigh, N. C.

BONDS

CITIZENS
1927

TRUST

Greenwood,

PORTLAND

M.)

N. C.

Carolina

INVESTMENT

4,

S.

CO.

C.

OREGON

Charles R. Vance

Ernest H. Pringle

1318

R. S.

Abernethy

JAMES

CONNER

Charleston,
COURTS

G.

R.

S.

CRAWFORD

DARGAN

Greensboro, N. C.
Secretary:

H.

S.

&

Interstate

Securities

Corporation,

R.

S.

CO.,

INC.

CO.

DICKSON

Charlotte,

RETAILING & TRADING

&

C.

Spartanburg, S.

Abernethy,

INC.

N. C.

Columbia,

Vice-President: Charles R. Vance, Vance Securities Coproration,

CO.,

C.

CO.

&

Durham,

President: Ernest H. Pringle, E. H. Pringle & Co., Charleston, S. C.

&

S.

N.

C.

&

CO.

C.

Charlotte, N. C.
EQUITABLE
Greensboro,

PACIFIC NORTHWEST ISSUES

Treasurer: Henry J. Blackford, Jr., A. M. Law & Company, Spar¬

FIRST

tanburg, S. C.

SECURITIES
N.

Durham,

CORP.

C.

SECURITIES

CORP.

N. C.

George Patten Investment Co.
SECURITIES
AMERICAN BANK BUILDING

PORTLAND 5, OREGON

Puget Sound Pulp & Timber Co.
TELEPHONE AT WATER 4389

AT

& T TELETYPE PD

?29

Bellingham, Washington

Specializing in

Welcomes Members of the

PACIFIC NORTHWEST

National Security Traders Association

MUNICIPAL, CORPORATION BONDS

to

and INVESTMENT STOCKS

our

Great Pacific Northwest

GRANDE
INCOftP

Hoge Building

SEATTLE 4

Telephone MAin 6830




OP.ATED

CO.

MANUFACTURERS OF HIGH GRADE BLEACHED

Washington

SULPHITE PULP-PAPERBOARD-INDUSTRIAL ALCOHOL

Teletype—SE 362

Convention

Mr.

Mrs.

&

Irwin

McDANIEL

Charleston, S. C.

S.

LEWIS

&

REYNOLDS

CO.

Greensboro, N. C.
VIVIAN

FURMAN CO.

Greenville,

Joseph D. Krasowich, Bonner & Gregory, New York City; Lester J. Thorsen, Glore, Forgan <6 Co.,
Chicago; Robert D. Diehl, Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis, Los Angeles; John M. Hudson, Thayer,
Baker
&
Co., Philadelphia; Cy Murphy, John C. Legg & Company, New York City
-

Schloss, Goldman, Sachs & Co., New York City; Mr. & Mrs. Samuel
Sachnoff, The First National Bank of Chicago

FROST, READ & SIMONS, INC.

ALESTER G.

65

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Number

C.

CO.

&

Winston-Salem, N. C.

We continue

MANNING

M.

SELECTED

Greenville, S. C.

INVESTMENTS

interest in

our

,

Wilmington, N. C.
E.

L.

HARDIN

Salisbury,
R.

S.

&

N.

CO.,

INC.

JOE McALISTER CO.

C.

Greenville, S. C.

FRANK

S.

SMITH

Columbia,

HAYS

&

CO.,

McCARLEY

INC.

Durham, N. C.
BARNWELL

Charleston, S.

JACKSON

Gastonia,

&

Charlotte,

HENRY T. MILLS

CO.

C.

Greenville,

SECURITIES

N.

&

CO.,

INC.

THE UNITED STATES FINISHING COMPANY

S.

INVESTMENT

CO.

Information available

C.

N.

request

on

C.

TOWNSEND, WESTON & CO.

INTERSTATE

Charlotte,

&

C.

Asheville, N. C.
SOUTHERN

HUGER,

S.

CO.

&

CORP.

.•

EDGAR M. NORRIS

C.

Greenville, S.

Charleston,

C.

J.

N. C.

LEE

PEELER

Durham,

N.

&

S.

C.

JOHN
VANCE

SMITH

SECURITIES

Greensboro,

C.

N.

R.

INC.

LEWIS,

CORP.

CO.

INVESTMENT SECURITIES

C.

SUITE 710-12-14 INSURANCE BUILDING

A.

M.

LAW

&

CO.

E.

Spartanburg, S. C.

H.

PRINGLE

Charleston,

/

S.

&

WARD

CO.

COVINGTON

&

Spartanburg,

C.

S.

SEATTLE 4

C.
TWX

State and Municipal

SE

ELIOT 3040

Years

61

Bonds

PHONE

105

CONTINUOUS SERVICE
THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST

IN

U. S. Government

"«

'

i

•

★
BOND DEPARTMENT

Binds

Seattle 4, Washington
Teletype SE 489

Telephone Main 3131

PRIVATE WIRE

WITH

TO DEMPSEY-TEGELER

TO PRINCIPAL

CONNECTIONS

Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

&

Co., LOS ANGELES

TRADING

CENTERS

★

founded 1892

OMR Harper

Son & Co.

Investment Securities

1504 Third Ave*

WASHINGTON and OREGON

Seattle 1 Wash,
Yakima

Wenatchee

Tacoma

SECURITIES
California
Harbor

Oregon Power Co

PRIMARY MARKETS IN

Plywood Corporation

Pacific Power &

Light

PACIFIC NORTHWEST SECURITIES

Portland Gas & Coke
General America

Corporation

Growing with the Pacific Northwest since 1913,

Puget Sound Power & Light

the

entire

region

through offices

in

we

serve

ten

principal cities of Oregon and Washington.

Weyerhaeuser Timber Co

UNDERWRITERS

•

DISTRIBUTORS

•

DEALERS

FOSTER & MARSHALL
eAtiitUCi/wU CUtd
NEW

t/Kemiete

SBoUtfo
YORK

STOCK

AMERICAN

STOCK

CHICAGO

BOARD

Jacific Northwest

EXCHANGE
OF

(Associate)

yeeu/utM

TRADE

SEATTLE

Teletype SE. 482483




820

SECOND

Portland

•

AVEUNE

Spokane

SEATTLE

•

Company

EXCHANGE

4

Eugene

Telephone MU. 1900

PORTLAND

EUGENE

•

•

-

SPOKANE

YAKIMA

•

14, WASHINGTON
•

ABERDEEN

TACOMA
•

•

WENATCHEE

BELUNGHAM
•

MEDFORD

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

66

Fischer, Jr., Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner

Treasurer: John J.

Cincinnati Stock and Bond Club

Thursday, October 8, 1953

&

Beane.

Harry J. Hudepohl, Westheimer and Com¬
Arch F. Montague, W. E. Hutton & Co.; Harold Roberts,
E. Joseph & Co.; Richard Thayer, Thayer, Woodward &
Cohle & Co.;

pany;
John

W.

E.

CAMPBELL

Hutton

Co.

John

E.

Joseph & Co.,

ARTHUR

KATZ,

Cincinnati

Committeemen: Lee R.

Staib, Geo. Eustis & Co.; Arch

Westheimer

Woody

Company; John C. Heimerdinger,
Heimerdinger; Harry J. Hudepohl,. West¬

&

C.

and

Company

FRED
and

Company

Reiter & Co.

H.

KREIMER,
H.

heimer and Company.

HERBERT F.

Kreimer

F.

&

KUEMMERLING,

Alternates:

Fuerbacher,

John

Robert W. Reis,

& Heimerdinger;

Woody

Walter,

Seasongood & Mayer.

W.

Took Office: January 1, 1953; Term Ex¬

W.

ROSTER OF MEMBERS
located

unless

Cincinnati

in

&

Company,

A.

Inc.

E.

W.

Hutton

Walter,

Co.

&

J.

HINSCH,

BECKER,
Field,

E.

Jr.,

Bennett

BENNETT,
J.

E.

Jr.,

J.

Fischer, Jr.

W.

A.

i.

L.

Co., Inc.

W.

W.

C.

W.

C.

The

Mayer

Inc.

Columbus

Corp..

E.

Pierce,

Fenner

&

Beane

T.

Browning &
CHARLES
McCune

McKIE,

E.

Cleveland

Lynch,

Nelson,

Company

& Co.,

HOYT B.

First

McCUNE,

Company

&

STANLEY

Co.

C.

Company,

Dayton,

G.

Weil, Roth & Irving Co.

MEINERS,

RICHARD

Nelson,

Thornburgh Co.

Jr.,

McCOY.

Hoefinghoff & Co., Inc.

HOWES,

and

JAMES

Madigan

Merrill

G.

and

HOOD, PAUL
Seasongood &

T.

Company

E.

MATRE, EDWARD

OSCAR

JOHN

ALFRED

Co., Inc.

&

JEANE
&

M.

J.

Municipal Bond Corporation

MAHON.

HOEFINGHOFF. LEE W.

Westheimer

Company

Westheimer

The

Hinsch

Co,

Heimerdinger

HITZLER,

and

C.

CHAS.

A.

&

MADIGAN,

Stranahan, Harris & Company

BRINK, ROBERT
The

&

HIRSCHFELD,
Co.

WILLIAM

Westheimer

John

Wellinghoff

MACK,

JEAN E.
<Sc Co., Inc.

Bennett

BERLAGE,

R. F.

Chas.

Co.

FRED II.
Richards &

BENNETT,
J.

Bartli

L.

Woody

&

FRANCIS

Cincinnati

Heimerdinger

&

Hutton

Harrison

HEIMERDINGER, JOHN M.

BARTH, JOHN L.
The

Woody

Walter,

E.

LYNCH,

HEIMERDINGER, JOHN G.

Co.

REGINALD

BARNARD,

MAURICE

MATTHEW

LOVELAND, FRANKLIN O.

Company

HEAD, Jr., HUGH
Harrison & Company

EDGAR

E. Aub &

WEBSTER

E.

HARTMAN, W. STEWART
Nelson, Browning & Co.

ARNOLD, HENRY J.
H. B. Cohle & Co.

AUB, A.

HARRISON,

Harrison, &

indicated)

ARMBRUST, JOHN J.
Pohl

F.

LEPPER, MILTON
A.
Lepper & Co.

George Eustis
otherwise

Co.

Co.

Greene & Ladd, Dayton

LENHOFF,

(Members

&

LAUFERSWEILER,

pires: December 31, 1953.

Jack L. Reiter

&

FREDERIC

Eustis

Geo.

Company

DON JU.

Gradison

D.

I.ATSCHA,
•

Elected: December, 1952;

Corporation

KORTE, ARTHUR W.

F. Montague, W. E. Hutton &

Walter,

Eond

IRWIN B.

KLEIN,

IiORROS,

Naiional

Inc.

V.

Municipal

Westheimer

George F, Oswald

S.

Co.

&

JOSEPH, JOHN E.

Richards & Co.; Herman B. Cohle,

Trustees: Fred H. Becker, Field,
H. B.

JOHNSTON,

Braun,

EDMUND B.

Bosworth

& Co..

Incorporated

Browning & Co.
MEYER.

BROWN,

President: George F.

Oswald, Smart, Clowes & Oswald, Inc.

ROBERT

Greene

&

First Vice-President: Jack L. Reiter, C. H. Reiter & Co.
Second Vice-President:

CARTWRIGHT,

George Eustis, Geo. Eustis & Co.

CHARLES

Harrison

BenJ.

Secretary: Richard F. Wellinghoff, C. J. Devine & Co.

&

HUDEPOHL, HARRY J.

J.

Ladd,

BUTZ,

Middletown,

Westheimer

O.

HUGHES,

A.

WILLIAM

CHAMBERS, JAMES
Field, Richards &

HUTTON,

A.

W.

D.
Co.

CLANCEY, W. POWER
W.

P.

Clancey & Co.

E.

H. B. Cohle

A.

Co.

Company, Inc.

&

JOHNSON,
Breed

&

Harrison,
Jr.,

T.

E.

Geo.

W.

B.

ARCH

Hutton

E.

&

F.

Co.

GEORGE

Eustis

MORIARTY,
Inc.

Co.

Lepper & Co.

MORGAN,

&

W.

&

LLOYD

JAMESON, ROBERT A.

Breed

Field, Richards & Co.

OVER THE COUNTER

MILLER,

JOHNSON, MARK T.

L.

CONNERS, CHARLES F.
Pohl & Co., Inc.

DEALERS IN

&

Middendorf

Inc.

M.

MONTAGUE,

Pohl

& Co.

R.

Hutton

Inc.

MIDDENDORF, WM. B.

J.

JAMES

Jr.,

Co.

Company

ISPHORDING, ROBERT B.
Doll & Isphordlng, Inc.

COHLE, HERMAN B.
COMPTON,

and

THOMAS

Edward Brockhaus & Co.,

Company

Bartlett & Co.

D.

ROBERT R.
Charles A. Hinsch &

C.

V.

& Co.

JAMES

Hutton

&

F.

Co.

MUEHLENKAMP, JOHN C.
Doll & Isphordlng, Inc.

Harrison, Inc.

COOPER, STANLEY
Stanley Cooper Co., Inc.

COULSON, CHARLES G.
L. W. Hoefinghoff & Co., Inc.

SECURITIES

CRUM, JAMES F.
The Samuel

UNDERWRITERS and DISTRIBUTORS

&

Engler Company

Columbus

blLBERT

DAVIS,

A.
Harrison & Company

DAVIS,
Geo.

STANLEY O.
Eustis

&

Co.

DEHNER, WALTER
Merrill

J. S. Strauss & Co.
155

MONTGOMERY

STREET

Fox,

HERBERT

Reusch

(4)

Ellis

Telephone

—

EXbrook 2-8515
—

SF 61 & SF 62

&

Beane

WILLIAM

Einhorn

ELLIS,

Bell Teletypes

Fenner

R.

Co.

&

DOHRMANN, WILLIAM F.
Harrison & Company
EINHORN,

SAN FRANCISCO

J.

Pierce,

Lynch,

DITTUS,

&

Co.

DAVID

Jr.,
&

W.

Co.

ENGLER, HERMAN J.
The

Samuel

lumbus,

&

Engler

Company,

Co¬

O.

EUSTIS, GEORGE
Geo.

Eustis

&

Co.

FILDER, Jr., HARRY A.
Ellis

&

Co.

FISCHER,
Merrill

JR.,

JOHN

Lynch,

J.

Pierce,

Fenner

&

Beane

FITZGERALD, LAWRENCE S.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner

&

Beane

FOGEL, ROBERT
Chas. A.

Hinsch &

Co., Inc.

FOSTER, BYRON
Westheimer & Company
FRIEDLANDER, ALFRED
BenJ, D. Bartlett & Co.

trading markets

FUERBACHER, JOHN
Walter, Woody & Heimerdinger
GERDING, EDW. H.
Edward Brockhaus
GFRTZMAN.

SAM

Westheimer

and

&

Co.,

underwriters

Inc.

H.

Company

GESSING, LAWRENCE
A. Lepper & Co.

distributors

G.

GLENN, PAUL W.
Edward

Brockhaus

GRADISON,
W.

&

Co.,

brokers

Inc.

WILLIS D.

Gradison

D.

&

Co.
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(

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GRADY, GEORGE T.
Cincinnati

GRAHAM,

Municipal

Corporation

GORDON M.

Middendorf

GRAY,

Bond

&

Co.

WALTER

Standard

&

BRUSH, SLOCUMB & CO. INC.

U.

Poor's

Corp.,

Cleveland

GREENE, HARRY T.
Greene

First California Company

&

GREENE.
Greene

Ladd,

JOHN
&

MEMBER

Ladd,

Dayton

'

San Francisco

Members

San Francisco Stock Exchange
Midwest Stock

300

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i

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GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO.

Los Angeles Stock Exchange

Montgomery Street

MONTGOMERY STREET

member

GRISCHY, CLIFFORD H.
Field, Richards & Co.

Incorporated

1

Dayton

B.

GUCKENBERGER. EDGAR F.

HALL,

Jr.,

Clair S.

HAPPLEY,

CLAIR
Hall

&

SAM rSANCISCO
STOCK EXCHANGE

Stock

S.

Company

GEORGE
C. H. Reiter & Co.

R.

HARRISON, HI, CHARLES L.
Harrison & Company

Exchange

DEMPSEY-TEGELER & CO.

O.

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Number

67

•H

Walter C.

MUETHING, CARL A.
Walter, Woody & Heimcrdinger
NEUMARK, J. H.
Middendorf

D.

E.

Madigan

O'BRIEN,
W.

LEO

E.

D.

M.

Bache

&

Hill

REIS,

&

Co.,

Inc.

D.

C.

&

&

&

H.

Harry L; Dillin, LinReld College, McMinneville, Ore.

Jimmy

A.

Co.

Co.

GEORGE

C.

Brockhaus

&

Co.,

E.

Joseph & Co.,

i8]8

Inc.

SUTRO o CO.

Inc

L.

ROSSBACH, KURT
J.

GORDON

Mayer

&

White

A.

Greene

Investment Dealers and Brokers

Company

Distributors

&

Ladd,

of Primary and Secondary Offerings

Dayton

Underwriters

Mayer

SCHIRMER,

Mayer

&

SCHWARTZ,
W.

JACK

D.

DANIEL

Gradison

&

D.
MEMBERS

Co.

»

SCHWINDT, PETER
Seasongood

SHAFFER,
Charles

Co.

&

EARL

Stock

Lynch,

SIEGMAN,

&

Co.,

Inc.

SAN

W.

407

Pierce,

JACK

Westheimer

Los Angeles

(Associate)

Fenner &

FRANCISCO

C.

and

VAN

YORK

SMALLEY, ROBERT
Merrill

Bache

McAndrew & Co.
UNDERWRITERS

6c

Geo.

13

STREET

HILLS

CANON

DRIVE

Direct Private Wires

& Co.

STAIR, LEE

Incorporated

NORTH

275

KENNETH

OFFICES

CORRESPONDENT

Bennett

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JOSE

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Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane
C.

HONOLULU, T. H.

SNYDER, CHAS. H.
J.

NORTH

55

14

BUILDING

Company
BEVERLY

SMITH,

NUYS

SAN

5

WALL STREET

40

ANGELES

LOS

4

MONTGOMERY STREET

Beane
NEW

Richards & Co.

Stock Exchange
Stock Exchange

San Francisco

Exchange
Exchange

R.

Hinsch

A.

York Stock

American

Mayer

SHEPLER, LLOYD
Merrill

Industrial Brokers

Co.

New

Co.

—

CARL

Eustls

Geo.

&

&

RUTLEDGE, JOHN M.

W.

&

Relter

Field,

Boston, with Norman &

ROBERTS, HAROLD

Co.

RICHARDS, ARTHUR H.

Co.

&

Curtis,

Sinet
RILEY,

Co.

REYNOLDS, JOS. B.
BenJ. D. Bartlett &

Co.

PHILLIPS, HOWARD E.
Bache

Bache

Inc.

REUSCH, CARL H.
Fox, Reusch <fc Co.

Company

Gradison

&

ROBERT

REITER,

PHILLIPS, GEORGE
W.

Co.,

CHARLES

Field, Richards

&

DONALD

REIS, THOMAS
Seasongood &

R. CORWIN

Harrison &

Webber, Jackson

Paine,

Edward

J.

Seasongood

H.

Edward Brockhaus

&

GEORGE

Co.

Seasongood

OSWALD, GEORGE
Smart, Clowes & Oswald, Inc.
PAULY, Jr.,

Hinsch

ROBERT
&

REIS, Jr.

Co.

JOHN J.

CLETUS

Duffy,

John

REED,

Co.

Seasongood & Mayer
OLLIER,

&

Bache

Inc.

C.

HERBERT

Gradison

O'HARA,

Co.

Co.,

R.

RIFE, ROY E.

A.

RAYMOND,

&

&

James

RANSICK, NEIL
RATTERMAN,

J.

HARRY

Hutton

OETTINGER,
W.

&

Mrs.

RICHARDS,

Chas.

LOTII

Gradison

NUSSLOCH,
J.

M.

&

POOR, HENRY E.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fer.ner & Eeane

Co.

&

NEWBURGII,
W.

Mr.

Gorey, Walter C. Gorey Co., San Francisco

&

MANILA,

:

P. I.

Co., Inc.

R.

Eustls

Co.

&

STEFFENS, Jr., CHAS. II.

DISTRIBUTORS

The

Cincinnati

Stock

Exchange

STENGER, ALBERT J.

1900 RUSS

Nelson, .Browning

SAN FRANCISCO 4, CAL.

BUILDING^

Telephone EXbrook 2-7900

Bell

STEVENSON,

Teletype SF 370

W.

E.

JR.,

& Co.
JUSTIN

Hutton- &

TERRELL,

3 1

J.

Co.

CHESTER

T.

Bache & Co.

THAYER,

AFFILIATES

RICHARD

TRADING MARKETS

Thayer, Woodward & Co.

in

THORNBURGH, ROBERT W.
The W. C. Thornburgh Co.

OVER-THE-COUNTER

THORNBURGH,
The

SECURITIES

W.

C.

WESLEY

Thornburgh

MEMBERS

TOBIAS, CHARLES H.
Westheimer

and

100

4

C.

Co.

Company

TRITTON, THOMAS

Direct Private

G.

A. Saxton

&

Harrison

Wires

&

Company

to

VASEY, JOSEPH H.

Co., Inc., New York-

Geo.

Akin-Lambert & Co., Inc., Los Angeles

Eustls

&

Co.

VONDERHAAR,
Westheimer

HARRY

and

C.

Company

WAGNER, ROBERT L.
The

W.

C.

Thornburgh Co.

Can you use our

WANNER,

LOUIS C.
Seasongood & Mayer

WEIL, JOSEPH B.
Westheimer

for

WEISS,

Communication

and

Geo.

Eustis

&

/
Co.

WELLLNGIIOFF,

BELL SYSTEM

CALIFORNIA RETAIL FACILITIES

Company

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F.

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LA

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Ellis

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New

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&

Trading Markets in

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Bache & Co.

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&

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San

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San

Exchange

Company

WOODWARD, WARREN
Thayer, Woodward & Co.

other

Francisco

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leading Exchanges
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blocks

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68

Mr.

&

Mrs.

Continued

Mr.

Jolley and Malinda, The Robinson-Humphrey
Company, Inc., Atlanta

Lex

from

&

Mrs.

permit

them

lease

public

Prior

to

efforts

to

for

districts

school

projects

are

which

the

being constructed.

Financing
cedures

became

School Building Authorities

In the

lished

same

the

year

State

that it estab¬

Public

School

Building Authority, the Pennsyl¬

whereby

obtain

through the

of local municipal

use

This

authorities.

amending the

was

done

by

under which

act6

authorities

such

districts
facilities

school

required

functioned

to

MARKETS

or

systems

on

tneir

&

Mr.

Elmer W.

include

to

autnorities

sucn

extremely popular as the
through
wnich
school

medium
districts

could

obtain

the

oi

use

sells

authority

the

bonds

by

either

its

of

the

construction

trict

and

long-term

firm
the

dis¬

authority enter a
lease for the project

provides

maintenance

ment of annual rentals to the au¬

that

of the Pennsylvania

State Public

School Building Au¬

and

for

the

COLLINS MACRAE, V.-P.

w.

E.

HUTTON

&

With

CO.,

use

of

to other

N.

Y.

their

C„
wire

Members

N.

Y.

S.

ity financing the sole source of
authority's revenue is the

the

average

ability

facilities

denture which is entered into by

revenue

the

rity behind the
the
authority.

projects costing in

excess

company,

such

considered

million

the

and

that

the

of

as

of $108.5

school

dis¬

Commonwealth had

the school districts' point

the

were

local

several

authority and a bank or trust
as trustee. The lease is
assigned under the indenture by
the authority to the trustee and

than

their

than

trustee

then

applies

investments when it is an admit¬
ted fact

those

available

through
also

was

authority
thority projects
bulk

Tore

such

ranged.

than

for

to

wait

an

work

could

times
funds

the

local

capacity

which

annual

swer

they
to

of
are

this

the

districts

leased?

The

the

Investment Securities

a

be-

be

ar-

Trader

demands

far
with

school

650 S.

ex¬

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ST., LOS ANGELES 14

the
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districts

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authorities rather

indeterminate

(Mac)

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SANTA

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time

their

projects. Lastly, local
pride and control came into play
with
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the

school

natural

districts

local

agencies

facilities
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of

result

that

preferred
rather

the

State

to

thah

the
use

the

organiza¬

tion.

When

school

a

Commonwealth

district

of

undertakes

the
an

TRADING MARKETS

authority

project it first obtains
the approval of such project from
the State Department of Public
Instruction.

Serving Southern California since 1927

based

the

upon

Such
approval
is
the projects' meeting

established

standards

of

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district

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authority (which

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authority

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the

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district

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of

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of

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more

necessitated

Authority

available
that

turned

Investment Securities

other

State

ceeded
result

loans

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the

on

EXCHANGE

ing

financed by

detail

more

most

Members Los Angeles Stock Exchange

the State Au-

were

which

great deal
i

MEMBERS
SAN FRANCISCO STOCK

loans

as

of

cost

REVEL MILLER & CO

"Jt expeditious to finance through the
local

the

that

the projects exceeds the borrow¬

State

authority could
cheaper interest rates

State Authority. It
State

then, can
strong

How,

proved

the

local

at

the

be

bonds

secu¬

bonds of

reasons

authority

attractive

finance

Stone & Youngberg

its

meet

Sept. 1, 1953, local authorities in
Pennsylvania had financed school

that

j»]

district.

district's
lease obliga¬

tions which determines the

that,

credit districts in the State found

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to

school

school

under the usual form of trust in¬

reveal

Public School Building Authority.
At the outset many of the better

trading centers

is

of

Instruction

why

E.

Pennsylvania school author¬

lic

the

proper

Bonds
In

the

of

on

Security Behind "Authority"

the

120%

the

construction of the

as

it

From

to

indenture

with

more

Wire

the

Thus,

than

of

proceeds

thority.
The
records
of
the annual debt service payable on
Pennsylvania Department of Pub¬ the bonds. The bonds are issued

of view there

COOKE FAULKNER

Private

The
are

pay¬

thority by the school district of
an amount generally equal to not
less

reserves

prior redemption of

project progresses.

applications for approval of the school district pays the annual
other projects which it is esti¬
rental directly to the trustee pur¬
mated will cost another $164 mil¬
suant
to
such
assignment. The
lion to construct.

BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO

bonds.

requisition

filed

RUSS

the

lease

tricts

WULFF, HANSEN & CO.

the

operation,
control by the

nancing
taken

for

for

and

district

and

der

au¬

school

for the estab¬

coverage

likewise deposited
with the trustee and paid out un¬

thority's revenue bond issue. This
lease

20%

bond issue

the

identical in life to that of the

guest

lishment of debt service

contracts

school

required facilities. In fact tne fi¬
which has been under¬
by such authorities now

the

or

public sale. Simultaneously with
the delivery of the bonds and the
execution

Meyer,

rental to the payment of principal
and interest on the bonds and uses

revenue

negotiation

Hammell, Taylor & Co., Chicago;

Dana

received. In financing the project

strictly for

a

Upon the broaden¬
powers

projects

exceeds

PACIFIC COAST

autnori-

sucu

devoted

financing of con¬
acquisition of water

tneir

scnooi

could
Local

of

ing

tune

basis.

revenue

buildings.

the

sewer

vania Legislature also set up pro¬

and

construct

generally

struction
and

to

school

tnat

had

ties

Current Trends in

School

Mrs.

Jr., Parsons & Co., Inc., Cleveland

Miss

6

page

Edward E. Parsons,

Thursday, October 8, 1958

Convention Number

Don

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Charles

Sloan, Donald C. Sloan & Co., Portland, Ore.;
Strader, Strader, Taylor & Co., Inc.,
Lynchburg, Va.

M.

Zingraf, Laurence M. Marks & Co., New York City; Miss Dana Meyer,
Joseph P. Minetree, Steiner, Rouse & Co., New Orleans;
James G.
Fraser, Stern, Frank, Meyer & Fox, Los Angeles

Lud

fact that the school tax
the laws

laws and

In

controlling annual State

addition
real

tax

tricts

appropriations to the school dis¬
tricts
have
been
sufficiently
broadened to produce ample rev¬

stated

to

estate,

tion

the

able and is computed

powers to
school dis¬
both of the

carry

all school dis¬
tricts with the exception of Phil¬
adelphia
and
Pittsburgh)
may

gations.

now

school

the

for

enues

districts

to

their authority lease obli¬
On the other hand, the
school districts debt limits, being
constitutional in
been increased
a

constitutional

do

so.

reference

In

tion

it would require
amendment
the

to

powers

school

districts,

it

to

increased

should

been

is

are

that

found

required to

School

have

be

able

real

of paying

of

less

this

billion

tremendous

usual

types of

struction

also

dollars

to

will

sum

be

aid, for in¬
transportation

state

costs,

costs, school nursing services, etc.
Another
part of these budgeted
will be

funds

funds

districts

5,000 and 500,000 per¬
given unlimited
taxation against tax¬

that

tricts

have

either

the

Authority

meeting

5,000 population,
taxing powers for all
other than teachers' sal¬

such

dis¬
with

Building

their

districts

school

additional annual

an

assist

to

rental

7 The Act of June
as

school
leases

School

under such lease. The

aries.

which

with local municipal

or

appropriation

than

where

entered

authorities

authority lease rentals.

legislation

State

shall receive

purposes

paid out to school

under

provides

have limited
purposes,

Vz

over

paid out to school districts for the

Such districts, as is true of those
with

1947" 7

of

educational purposes. A great part

such rentals.
populations

the

Law

them

in

obligations
appropria-

25, 1947 P. L. 1145,

amended.

based

&

ESTABLISHED

Co.

Los

York

Stock

Exchange

San

Francisco Stock Exchange

(Associate)

pay¬

statu¬

a

the generally accepted concept of

State

the term. There is

to

question

no

as

project

weakest school

districts. In many

revenues

instances,

appropriations

debt. The lease ob¬
ligation is fixed at the time of the
sale of the bonds. Such obligation

the

so

received exceed 50% of the rental

obligation of the school district.
In
the
stronger school district
such aid, of course, does not reach
such

proportions.

A

whether

peculiar quirk of the Penn¬

the

not

or

sufficient

to

power

Bonds

that

as

Authority

School

Investment

-

After this glowing

to

the

tribute to the
Pennsylvania
school

of

merits

authority
agree
as

of the school district
upon

appropriations

its

tive

indirectly

its

district.

school

earn

retire

thereafter rests directly upon

taxing

through

the

Pennsylvania

ultimately

would

Goshia, Precision Tool & Die Co.,
Bronson, Mich.

financed

outstanding

and

bonds you are certain
that they appear attrac¬

investments. But, you

Continued

of the

on

will

page

70

sylvania law arises from the fact
such

no

provided

their

nances

of school

to

sort

fi¬
projects

the sale of their
obligation
bonds.

This fact has caused
number

is

which

school

from
general

directly
own

assistance

state

districts

for

additional

an

MARKETS MAINTAINED

districts to re¬

authority financing

even

IN

though their fiscal condition was
such that they could have readily
financed their

have

tion,

MORE THAN 300

projects with their

bonds. The districts in ques¬

own

the

that

found

ACTIVELY TRADED SECURITIES

lease

aid received from the State

more

than offset any saving which they

might

realize

where

their

manded

a

in

cost

interest
bonds

own

com¬

attractive

more

rate

than those of their local authority.

The
has

lengths

such

to

Morgan

Legislature

Pennsylvania

gone

Members Los Angeles

to

its
school
authority
that it might be said that
a school authority bond of a par¬
ticular community is more to be
desired than a general obligation
strenghen

634

S. SPRING ST.

8 Go.

Stock Exchange

LOS ANGELES

•

14

•

Ml

6421

program

bond

munity. In

a

could

be

well

the

of

same

•

SANTA MARIA

-

LONG BEACH

•

CORONA DEL MAR

com¬

a

school

serviced

within

general

taxing

district

must

limits

of

powers

of such school district. On
a school district

the

Teletype LA 146
BEVERLY HILLS

given situation this
true. The general

obligation bonded debt of

1883

American Stock Exchange

Angeles Stock Exchange

by

give the greatest assistance to the

Members
New

rental

tory formula which is designed to

school

J. ItAimi

the

on

Mr. & Mrs. Oliver

guest;

to

that

cates

with

estate for

Tax

the

Pennsylvania state budget for the
current biennium (1953-55) allo¬

been

of

powers

additional
pay

districts

of between
sons

have

Rule

of

It should also be noted that the

given
an
emergency
tax
of 5 additional mills where

power

it

districts

Such

application

State.

pointed out that all those with
populations of less than 5,000 per¬
sons
have
been
empowered to
levy taxes, over and above the
regular tax power, of 10 addi¬
tional mills against taxable real
estate
to
pay
school authority
rentals.

of taxa¬

sources

which, with certain listed excep¬
tions, permits the school districts
to tax anything not taxed by the

Pennsylvania

of

taxing

through

"Home

nature, have not

as

encompass

reach other

is

their

falling within
population categories

(which

69

be

the

other hand,

under
an
authority
service the same, not
only from its general limited tax¬
operating

Underwriters, Distributors and Dealers in Corporate, Municipal and
Unlisted Securities

FRANCISCO:

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power, but from
the addi¬
tional taxing powers granted the

ANGELES:

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PRIVATE WIRE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN ALL OFFICES
Direct

•

Scherck, Richter Co., St. Louis

the

for

purpose

of

sup¬

have been prominently

identified with the financing of

the following

western corporations

porting such leases. Furthermore,
the

State

additional

renders

aid

to the districts which have leased

whereas

projects,

authority

no

Hoffman Radio Corp.

The Stuart Company

Norris-Thermador Corp.

Brunswig Drug Company

The Fluor Corp., Ltd.

Solar Aircraft Company

such aid is granted to school dis¬

in support of their general

tricts

To:

Leased Wires

Shearson, Hammill & Co., New York

We

may

ing

•

SAN

lease

obligation securities. And. as has
been pointed out, authority leases
usually call for an annual rental

payment of not less than 120% of
the average annual debt service

Northrop Aircraft, Inc.

Van Camp Sea Food Co., Inc.

Valley National Bank

of

Phoenix

the

authority's bonds.
The
surplus rental is used first to es¬
on

tablish

\

Croweff.Weecfon

& Co.

DISTRIBUTORS

UNDERWRITERS
PRIVATE

features

serve

school

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would

•

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•

ESTABLISHED

district

run

into

should

a

financial*

LOS

a

ANGELES

640 So.

•

Laguna Beach

case

with

general obligaFinally, p school

bond

authority
the

bond,

interest

tributable

its

to

certainly not

while carrying
generally at¬

rates

revenue

a

revenue

bonds,

is

bond in

14

Spring St.

TRinity 4211

authority
bond
better position to

its
in

be

Thus,

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Members

weather the storm than would be

38

San Diego

outstanding general

debt.

difficulty,

the

Pasadena

their

R. Staats & Co.

William

financing,
for the school districts only budg¬
et the exact amount required to
obligation

650 S. SPRING ST. • LOS ANGELES 14. • TRinity 0281

not to be found

are

obligation

general

service
PLACEMENTS

bonds

redemption

prior to fixed maturity. Such re¬
in

Members Los Angeles Stock Exchange

their

for

the

for

reserve

a

then

and

Pasadena

Beverly Hills

Santa Ana

San Jose

Van Nuys

New York Stock

Exchange

American Stock Exchange (Assoc.)
Los

Angeles Stock Exchange
San Francisco Stock Exchange

Mr.

FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

THE COMMERCIAL and

70

&

Mrs.

Continued

Peter

Morgan,

J.

Pfeter

from

page

Morgan

Mr. & Mrs. Samuel E. Magid, Hill, Thompson

& Co., New York City

has

69

also

School Financing
X, Section 1 of the State Constitu¬

viding

for

annual

priations* binding
sessions

the

of

rental

appro¬

all

future

on

Pennsylvania

To

must

that it is not. Article

requires

that

shall

maintenance

this question we

Legislature?
answer

tion

Assembly

the

provide

and

General
for

support

of

efficient public school system,
the

the
an

and

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

rental

positive

no

condition

the^ JCourt has

such

session

drawn.

the

of

the

ing

school

public

system.^

Thus,

FEWEL
Member Los

S.

the

in

relies

program

State

Trading Dept.

is but

aid

tricts.

George H. Earnest
®

that

seen

so

rental

The

port.

Angeles 13, Calif.

any

heavily

upon

its

sup¬

is

It

tricts

small part of the

a

in

school

to

merely
to

the

facilities, and

the

dis¬

to

dis¬

tricts

in

tion

costs,

the

PUBLIC UTILITIES

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Russ

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Van Nuys Building, Los Angeles 14

constitutional subter¬

limits.

While

soundly

this

may

conceived

rendering

service

to

the

and

much

a

people of

Pennsyl¬

stitutional

attack,

and

Authority

System

by

successful

are

other states are reported
going ahead with plans for

be

local

supported in part by the State
Hayden,
(1938).

329

PA.

these

needs.

vide

the

facilities.

When

prelim¬

of

school

the

systems.

set-up

The

Georgia Authority

is

213;
9 Ga.

Laws

1951,

pp.

plans

have

been

specifications

and

completed,

tween the

Authority and the local

Board, and the State Board of Ed¬
ucation

is

made

party

a

We

hope

you

enjoyed

your

We invite you to take a look at the

■

by acknowledging the same
and agreeing to pay the rentals
called for therein. Upon comple¬
tion of these steps by the respec¬
tive Boards, bonds are then issued

241-261.

project. As opposed
Pennsylvania State School

the

very

has

Authority, it is to be
Georgia Authority

that the

successfully
marketed
building rev¬
of a total aggregate

now

two issues of school

bonds

enue

principal amount of $95,397,000.
It is contemplated that such fi¬

nancing will provide funds for the
construction of facilities in 103 of

the

State's

tems.

school

visit to the

Inactive Pacific Coast Securities

UTE ROYALTY CORP.

we

it

will

finance

additional

projects which will raise its total

borrowing to between 125 million
dollars
The

and

150

Georgia

million

bonds

are

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following Intermountain oil speculations

make

primary markets:

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We also solicit your orders on the Salt

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TRinity 3771
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sys¬

completing its pro¬
Authority anticipates

the

gram,

that

local

202

Before

■

in which

such

to

lease

SECURITY TRADERS:

Specialists in

lease

a

agreement is executed by and be¬

noted

While
to

v.

furnish

Building

Adopted

Georgia

regard, we should not
financing
school
projects
by
lose sight
of the fact that the
means of state school authorities,
combined financing by the State
Georgia has developed its
School Building Authority and by only
program to a point which war¬
local municipal authorities
now
rants
comment
at
the
present
approximate $200 million dollars
time. The State School Building
and there is every indication that
in the near future such financing Authority of Georgia was created
in 1951 9 for the purpose of con¬
will greatly
exceed this figure.
Inasmuch as all such financing is structing needed school facilities
and the leasing of the
same to
supported by leases which in turn

197A, 334

Over-the-Counter

by

to

inary

to

this

8 Malone

i

er.tire

its

has been approved
the Georgia Supreme Court.
program

to finance the

Commonwealth.

the

costs

is

that

needed

operation of the public schools.
In

YUkon 6-2332

the

to

pointed

program can be

debt

one

payment of instruc¬

imoerative

^school

be true it is proving itself to be a

nursing service, all of which
along with
adequate
facilities,

are

Pennsylvania

mere

a

program

aiding school dis¬

transportation

as

trict

adopted by the

once

entire

fuge to circumvent the school dis¬

necessary

and

INSURANCE STOCKS • BANK STOCKS

the

of

School

Building Au¬
thority.
Like
its
Pennsylvania
counterpart, the Georgia Author¬
ity has withstood the test of con¬

units

authority

means

school

assist

providing

lished policy of

Retail Distributor

to

thority method of financing, does
not strike me as hastily conceived
nor subject to change. To be sure,

appronriation

granted

established

for

Commonwealth, is no more likely
to change
than the long estab¬

1

pressed

that

to

State

of the school districts un¬
When such needs have been de¬
dertaking the projects with au¬
termined
and
approved by the
thorities.
The
policy which re¬
State Board, the local unit makes
sulted in the dual action of setting
application to the Georgia Au¬
up the rental appropriation pro¬
thority for funds to provide the
gram and of changing the struc¬
required facilities. When the ap¬
ture
of
taxing powers
of the
school districts, with full realiza¬ plication has been approved by
tion that the districts would take the Authority, a commitment is
widespread advantage of the au¬ given to the local Board to pro¬

Commonwealth.

be

can

Commonwealth

the

Spring St.

TRinity 4191

Teletype LA 456

it

currently

CO.

school

power

policy by subse¬
quent sessions of the Legislature
would
completely
disrupt
the
public educational system of the
Commonwealth, as such system

Angeles Stock Exchange

453

Los

&

with¬
dis¬

were

vania

The
public
school
system
of
contrary true, subse¬ weaker districts whose financial
sessions
of
Legislature solvency depends very largely on Georgia is administered through
and
city
independent
might find it impossible to make state appropriations might even county,
systems which are gov¬
such changes in the law as might default. The overall effect would school
be necessary to keep the public be so damaging that the financial erned by local Boards of Educa¬
tion. The administration of State
mu¬
schools abreast of educational ad¬ reputation of Pennsylvania
nicipalities and the State Govern¬ funds for school purposes is under
vances. This is a legal answer to
ment
would
be
damaged beyond the State Board of Education.
the above question, but I feel that
The State Board of Education,
repair.
it is hardly a practical one.
together with the local Boards of
been pointed out, the
As has
Remember
also
that
concur¬
State budget of the current bien- rently with setting up the rental Education, is charged under law
with making a survey of physical
nium allocates over $V2 billion to appropriation progress the Legis¬
needs and the ability of the local
the
support
of public
schools. lature saw fit to broaden the tax

radical change of

ISSUES

if

similar

quent

education

CALIFORNIA

can

chaotic
result

hard

be

we

Co., Denver

the

Were

in

SOUTHERN

would

Amos C. Sudler &

Phillip J. Clark,

continue their rental payments on
their
leases
and
some
of
the

This, I am advised, is approxi¬
mately 40% of the cost of public

Trading Markets

Mr.

would

that

appropriations
Many of the

tricts

Legislature can bind a subsequent
session to a fixed policy concern¬

&

appropriations,
appreciate
the

readily

Legislature to
sy^te|m\of public

that

held

Mrs.

& Co., Inc. New York

the

upon

provide such a
schools. However,

Current Trends in
ask; is the current legislation pro¬

is A

this

that

held

mandate

Thursday, October 8, 1953

Salt

Lake

City

10,

Bldg.
Utah

dollars.

issued

Convention

Mr. &

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Number

Mrs. John

M.

Hudson, Thayer, Baker & Co.
Philadelphia

under the usual form of trust

in¬

dentures

entered into by and be¬
tween the Authority and banks or

insure

to

reserves

the

of

success

the

Authority's
financing
pro¬
gram. While the procedures fol¬
lowed by the Georgia Authority
the

and

School

Pennsylvania

Building

the

basically
several
their

these

same,

important

made

that

least, such programs could be
by changes in State
policy.

district

rental

payments

vania

State

local

makes

authority.

municipal
of

Board

to

or

Georgia such is not the
State

lease

all

Authority

In
The

case.

Education

a

pays

the rentals, on behalf of the local

unit, directly to the Authority an¬
nually in advance out of funds
due the local

unit from State ap-

*

propriations made pursuant to the
Constitution and laws of the State
of

Georgia for capital outlay, or,

should
be

the

capital

funds

outlay

funds

other
the local unit by the

insufficient,
due

from

any

State for educational purposes. In

established

and

public

of

in

In

Legislature
which

financing

be

to

seems

Indiana.

1933

enacted

authorized

Indiana

which

were

to

be

enable the

to

poration

liquidate

to

lessor

within

of

State

this

Beane

PATTEN,
George

PHIPPS,
E.

M.

Donald

C.

C.

Sloan

Co.

&

SOMERS, HOWARD
Camp & Company

Jr., GEORGE F.
Patten Investment

SWAILS,

Co.

J.

R.

DERELE

Williston,

Bruce

& Co.

PRESTON
Adams

&

,TRIPP, Jr., CHAS. N.

Co.

Chas.

ROBERT
Blyth & Co., Inc.

PITT.

N.

Tripp & Company

VAN BOSKIRK, DON R.
Atkinson

ZORA,

&

Co.

RAY

First National Bank of Portland

pay

aside

created

to

on
a

limit,

and
have
the
the
ground

school

district

of its constitutional

excess

Indiana court
approach to
school
facilities

by

approved
thus

Securities

the

this

financing

Municipal Bonds and Corporate

novel

of

Local Industrial &

might well become even another
ingenious scheme with which the
investment
banking
fraternity

Utility Stocks

Trading Markets

must become familiar.

Retail Distribution

10 Ind.

Laws, 1933, c. 162, sec. 1, et
as amended.
Protsman v. Jefferson-Craig Consol.

seq..

is

11

School

Corp.,

109

N. E. 2d

889

(1953).

STRADER, TAYLOR & CO., INC.
Security Traders Association of Portland, Ore.

L0 39 TWX LY 77

LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA

School

Georgia

Bond more attractive,
than the bond pf

Authority
in

&

LUNDBORG, HUGO
Handel, Lundborg & Co.

limits

the

prescribed by the laws of the
State. This would seem to make
the

it

debt

sought

set

it

and

cor¬

authorized, has only recently been

which

to

limit. The plan and the lease were

and

under

constitutional

lease

plan, and the constitutionality of
statute

was

as

deficiency from ad valorum taxes
levied by it as authorized by the

Fenner

Bank of Chicago

finance the project.

district

debt in

retire any of its

the

school

that

to redeem
stock at par
plus accumulated dividends. This

interest,

annual

to

all indebtedness with accrued and

unpaid

stated

at

Pierce,

a

taxpayers

paying

by

for

its

shall be specified in the lease and
to
pay
thqrefor / a
sufficient
amount

district

Lynch,

DONALD

SLOAN.

LUDLAM, PAUL A.
Merrill

Strong, First National

corporation an annual rental
of $16,000. At the time the school
district was only $36,000 short of

of acquir¬
ing
land
and
erecting
school
buildings thereon for the use of
the leasing school districts. Under
this plan the school districts have
right to acquire the title
the
building at such times

school
rentals

H.

the

formed for the purpose

the

building corporation was
to acquire land, to erect
thereon and to
the
building to an Indiana

The

to enter into leases with building

corporations

in

resulted

case

arrangement whereunder

an

gage bonds to

districts

school

The

OrvIIle

Meyer,

bonds and $80,000 of second mort¬

statute10

a

subject of litigation

P.

period of 30 years,
ROBBINS, J. GILBERT
with the right in the school dis¬
Campbell & Robbins. Incorporated
trict to purchase the building on
RUCKDESCHEL, RICHARD
Pacific Northwest Company
any
rental payment date.
The
building corporation proposed to
issue $200,000 of first mortgage

developing
the

the

school building

let

permanent

and

Constitution

a

facilities thus appears to be a well
medium

of Chicago; Frank
Corporation, Detroit

formed

school

needed

deficiency
in the payment of rentals on the
part of the State Board, the local
unit is o b 1 i g a t e d to pay such

the event there is any

!

much

districts

the Pennsyl¬

to

nishing

a

of fur¬

means

a

Bank

Michigan

state.11

from

authority and its

as

constitutional debt limits of school

explained, the local

school

of the

use

in

distinctions

financing programs.

As has been

The

related leases

National

of

weakened

are

are

First

First

in
the States of Georgia and Penn¬
sylvania. A new application of the
lease concept for circumventing

State

Authority

Sachnoff,

at

trust

companies and seem to be
adequately secured with proper

Samuel

71

regard

Authority,

the

Pennsylvania

the

direct payments by

agency

to

for
the State

gives

Authority

the

greater assurance that the rental

obligations will be made. On the
hand, under the Pennsyl¬
system of paying the State

other

vania

appropriations first to the school
district, it is possible that the
funds so paid could be used by
districts

the

other

for

C<Ul

current

needs in times of financial stress,

leaving them short of funds when
authority lease rentals are

their

due and payable.
is

to

noted

be

Legislature

has

the

Georgia

attempted

Constitution
General

raETWE*

nature

will

as

the

State

permit.

Appropriations

The

Act

of

Vice-President: Paul

Secretary-Treasurer: Neil D'Amico, Dean Witter & Co.
National Committeeman: Preston

L. Phipps, E. M. Adams & Co.

Elected: December 18,

While this is not bind¬

future sessions of the
Legislature it is exoressive of an
adopted policy for the betterment
on

school

Thus,

facilities

in

the

in this regard, the

State.

Georgia

School Authoritv Bonds and those

Authorities are
for, while both
the Legislatures of the States have
done all possible to establish a
nermanent program for revenue
financing of school buildings, it
must be admitted that, in theory
of

Pennsylvania

basically

on

a par.




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RICHMOND, VA.

1953
and ending June 30. 1954, and to
continue each fiscal year there¬
after until the Act is repealed or

fiscal year beginning July 1,

Pierce, Fenner

& Beane.

Alternate: Dan V. Bailey, Foster &

of

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A. Ludlam, Merrill Lynch,

provides for various appro¬
priations to be allocated for the

ing

Co.

President: Preston L. Phipps, E. M. Adams &

1953

modified.

D'Amico

to

appropriations to school
districts for capital outlay as per¬
in

Neil

Paul A. Ludlam

Phipps

Furthermore, it

that

make the

manent

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LESLIE

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Co.

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JOHN

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Si

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U. S. National Bank of

First

Dean

Balfour

BLAKELY, WILLIS H.

Gould

J.

Collins

J.

Canadian

D'AMICO,

DAVID A.
Stewart

Hoppe,

Blankenship,

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COLTON, E. L.

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Foster & Marshall

ROANOKE, VA.'
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70

Mr.

&

Mrs.

Peter

Continued

J.

Morgan, Peter Morgan

from

&

Co., New

York

mandate

provide
schools.

Current Trends in

upon

Legislature

X, Section 1 of the State Constitu¬

ask; is the current legislation pro¬

viding

annual

for

priations

binding

sessions

of

the

Legislature?
must

To

rental

appro¬

all

future

on

tion

Pennsylvania

this question

that

shall

maintenance

we

the

provide

and

the

General
for

support

efficient public school

that it is not. Article

answer

requires

Assembly

of

the
an

system, and

Pennsylvania Supreme Court

is

rental

positive

a

the Legislature to

session to

session

no

bind

can

condition

tricts

subsequent

a

Mr.

would

that

would

we

J. Clark, Amos C. Sudler & Co., Denver

can

chaotic
if

result

were

hard

be

Phillip

with¬
school dis¬

appropriations
drawn. Many of the

the

of

&

such

pressed

to

continue their rental payments on

fixed policy concern¬

a

Mrs.

appropriations,
appreciate
the

readily

such a system of public
However, the Court has

held' that

also

School Financing

this

that

held

has

69

page

Thursday, October 8, 1953

Hill, Thompson & Co., Inc. New York

Mr. & Mrs. Samuel E. Magid,

City

CHRONICLE

some
of
the
system.*5 their leases and
true, subse¬ weaker districts whose financial
quent
sessions
of
Legislature solvency depends very largely on
might find it impossible to make state appropriations might even
such changes in the law as might default. The overall effect would
be necessary to keep the public be so damaging that the financial

ing

the

public

the

Were

school

contrary

reputation of Pennsylvania mu¬
nicipalities and the State Govern¬
would be damaged beyond
repair.

schools abreast of educational ad¬

This is

vances.

a

legal

to

answer

the above question, but I feel
is hardly a practical one.

ment

that

it

has

As

been

Remember
the
also
that
concur¬
State budget of the current bien- rently with setting up the rental
nium allocates over $%. billion to appropriation progress the Legis¬
the
support
of
public
schools. lature saw fit to broaden the tax

Trading Markets
m

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CALIFORNIA

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&

CO.

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453

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S.

ISSUES

Exchange

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Angeles 13, Calif.

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Trading Dept.

pointed

out,

This, I am advised, is approxi¬
mately 40% of the cost of public

power

education in

thorities.

the

Commonwealth.

established

to

assist

to

dis¬

school

the payment

costs,

program

needed

of instruc¬

transportation

are

imperative

Building, San Francisco

4

While
to

Teletype LA 1086

Adopted

other states

fact

the

that

financing by the State

are

reported

be

will

near

as

this

exceed

figure.

all such financing is

supported by leases which in turn
are supported in part by the State
8 Malone

Hayden,
197A, 334 (1938). "
v.

329

PA.

a

point

The

which
the

at

School

State

Authority of Georgia

future such financing

greatly

Inasmuch

indication that

time.

to

comment

rants

war¬

present

Building

created
in 1951 9 for the purpose, of con¬
structing needed school facilities
and the leasing of the same to
local school systems. The set-up
of the Georgia Authority is very
was

213;
9 Ga.

Laws

1951,

pp.

Like

stitutional
program

its

the Pennsyl¬
Building Au¬
Pennsylvania

attack, and its ertire
has been approved by

the Georgia Supreme Court.
The
public
school
system

Georgia
county,

is

administered

city
and
independent
systems which are gov¬
erned by local Boards of Educa¬
tion.

The

administration

of

We

hope

We invite you to

Over-the-Counter

enjoyed

you

take

a

your

The

State

Board

of

Education,

together with the local Boards of

Education,

is charged

under law

with making a survey of physical
needs and the ability of the local
units
to
furnish
these
needs.
such

termined

needs

have

been

in which

UTE ROYALTY CORP.

we

241-261.

visit to the

make

approved by the
State Board, the local unit makes

application

to the Georgia Au¬
thority for funds to provide the
required, facilities. When the ap¬
plication has been approved by
the

Authority, a commitment is
given to the local Board to pro¬
vide

the

inary

facilities.

plans

have

When

been

completed,
a
lease
agreement is executed by and be¬
tween the

Authority and the local
Board, and the State Board of Ed¬
ucation

is made a party to such
by acknowledging the same
and; agreeing to pay the rentals
lease

called

for

therein.

Upon

FRANCISCO
California St.

project. As opposed
Pennsylvania State School

the

has

Authority,

it is to be
Georgia Authority

that the

successfully

now

marketed

two issues of school building rev¬
enue
bonds of a total aggregate

principal
It

amount of $95,397,000.
contemplated that such fi¬

is

nancing will provide funds for the
construction of facilities in 103 of
the

State's

tems.

i

school

it

will

finance

additional

projects which will raise its total
borrowing to between 125 million
dollars
The

and

150

Georgia

million

bonds

are

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local

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State

funds for school purposes is under
the State Board of Education.

SECURITY TRADERS;

Specialists in

of

through

school

Building

program

the

not

of

School

counterpart, the Georgia Author¬
ity has withstood the test of con¬

noted

Georgia

local

of

should

we

Building Authority and by
municipal authorities now
approximate $200 million dollars

Van Nuys Building, Los Angeles 14

System

by

School

regard,

sight

combined

in the

Russ

Authority

that

to finance the

going ahead with plans for
financing
school
projects
by
means of state school authorities,
only Georgia has developed its

this

thority.

to

operation of the public schools.

and there is every

Michigan 2837

conceived and
rendering a much
service to the people of
is

successful

the

to

may

Commonwealth.

the

costs

this

soundly

that

one

While

to

State

When

constitutional subter¬

limits.

vania

au¬

policy

be true it is proving itself to be a

lose

Teletype SF 573

un¬

Commonwealth, is no more likely
to change than
the long estab¬
lished policy of aiding school dis¬

In

YUkon 6-2332

mere

as a

trict debt

nursing service, all of which
along
with
adequate
facilities,

WALTER C. GOREY CO.

The

with

fuge to circumvent the school dis¬

and

PUBLIC UTILITIES

projects

tricts
in
providing
necessary
facilities, and once adopted by the

tion

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the

which re¬
Thus, it cari be seen that any sulted in the dual action of setting
radical change of policy by subse¬ up the rental appropriation pro¬
quent sessions of the Legislature gram and of changing the struc¬
would
taxing
powers
of
the
completely
disrupt
the ture of
public educational system of the school districts, with full realiza¬
Commonwealth, as such system tion that the districts would take
currently relies so heavily upon widespread advantage of the au¬
the Commonwealth
for its sup¬ thority method of financing, does
port.
The
rental
appropriation not strike me as hastily conceived
program is but a small part of the nor subject to change. To be sure,
entire
State aid granted to school dis¬ the
Pennsylvania
school
tricts.
It
is merely
the means authority program Can be pointed

tricts in

Retail Distributor

of the school districts

dertaking

similar

309

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Pac.

Nat.

Lake

Life

City

10,

Bldg.
Utah

dollars.

issued

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Convention Number

Mr.

&

Mrs. John M.

Hudson, Thayer, Baker & Co.,
Philadelphia

under the usual form of trust in¬
dentures entered into

by and be¬
tween the Authority and banks or
trust companies and seem to be
I

adequately secured with proper
reserves to insure the success of
the
Authority's
financing pro¬
gram. While the procedures fol¬
lowed by the Georgia Authority
the

and

Pennsylvania
State
Building
Authority are

School

basically
several

their

the

these

same,

important

are

distinctions

in

financing programs.

As has been

school

district

makes

payments

vania

State

all

the

to

lease

Pennsyl¬

Sachnoff,

made
that

state.11

from

an

least, such programs could be
by changes in State
policy.
The

of the

use

related leases

nishing

authority and its

as

much

established

and

public

the

of

States

of

sylvania. A
lease

permanent

financing

Georgia

in

and Penn¬

application of the
for circumventing

In

Legislature
which

be

to

seems

Indiana.

enacted

authorized

formed for the purpose of acquir¬

State

Board

Education

of

pays

the rentals, on behalf of the local

unit, directly to the Authority an¬
nually in advance out of funds
the local unit from State ap¬

due

propriations made pursuant to the
Constitution and laws of the State
of

Georgia for capital outlay, or,
should the capital outlay funds
be

insufficient,

funds

due

the

from
local

other
unit by the
any

State for educational purposes. In

the event there is any deficiency
the

in

payment of rentals on the

corporations

which

to

were

land

the

right in the school dis¬

$200,000

first

of

Pierce,

enable the

to

liquidate

to

lessor

by

school

district

constitutional

to

was

lease

aside

set

that

it

debt

sought

taxpayers

cor¬

to

PATTEN,
George

PHIPPS,
E.

M.

a

the

ground
district,

facilities

school

of

ingenious scheme with which the
investment
banking
fraternity
must become familiar.

interest, and to redeem
any of its stock at par
plus accumulated dividends. This
which

it

Jr., GEORGE F.
Patten Investment

the

would

of

State

laws

of
to

seem

the

make

Co.

DERELE
Williston, Bruce

SWAILS,

Co.

J.

R.

& Co.

PRESTON
Adams

&

,TRIPP, Jr., CHAS. N.

Co.

Chas.

ROBERT
Blyth. & Co., Inc.

PITT,

N.

Tripp & Company

VAN BOSKIRK, DON R.

ROBBINS, J. GILBERT
Campbell & Robbins, Incorporated

Atkinson

ZORA,

RUCKDESCHEL, RICHARD
Pacific Northwest Company

&

Co.

RAY

First National Bank of Portland

Municipal Bonds and Corporate
Securities
Local Industrial &

Utility Stocks

10 Ind.
seq..

is

as

Laws, 1933,
amended.

11 Protsman

School

Corp.,

Retail Distribution

162,

c.

sec.

Jefferson-Craig

v.

109

N.

E. 2d

Trading Markets

889

1,

et

Consol.

(19S3).

STRADER, TAYLOR & CO., INC.

within

by

&

HOWARD
Camp & Company

SOMERS,

might well become even another

unpaid

under

C.

Sloan

limit, and
have
the

and retire

statute

C.

pay

school

on

created

financing

paying

all indebtedness with accrued and

the

Donald

Beane

mortgage

right to acquire the title to debt in excess of its constitutional
building at such times as limit. The plan and the lease were
shall be specified in the lease and
approved by the Indiana court
to
pay
therefor
a
sufficient and thus this novel approach to
poration

&

Handel, Lundborg & Co.

the

amount

Penner

LUNDBORG, HUGO

authorized by the
the
limits

as

Constitution

This

years,

the

authorized, has only recently been

prescribed

its

buildings

deficiency from ad valorum taxes

State.

annual

Lynch,

DONALD

SLOAN,

LUDLAM. PAUL A.
Merrill

First National Bank of Chicago

Strong,

corporation an annual rental
of $16,000. At the time the school
district was only $36,000 short of

the leasing

plan, and the constitutionality of

it

stated

at

period of 30

a

H.

the

be

part of the State Board, the local
unit is oblig ated to pay such
levied by

the

The

and
erecting
school
thereon for the use of
school districts. Under
this plan the school districts have

ing

for

Orvllle

Meyer,

of second mort¬
gage bonds to finance the project.

districts

municipal
authority.
In
Georgia such is not the case. The

district

P.

bonds and $80,000

statute10

a

school
rentals

issue

Indiana

school

arrangement whereunder

purchase the building on
any
rental payment date.
The
building corporation proposed to

developing
the

1933

resulted

case

trict to

constitutional debt limits of school

in

The

school

with

new

concept

subject of litigation in

building corporation was
to acquire land, to erect
building thereon and to
let
the
building to an Indiana

a

facilities thus appears to be a well
medium

the

formed

school

needed

of Chicago; Frank
Corporation, Detroit

a

of fur¬

means

a

Bank

Michigan

weakened

to enter into leases with building

to

or

National

of

at

a

Authority

local

First

First

districts

explained, the local

rental

Samuel

71

Security Traders Association of Portland, Ore.

LD 39 TWX LY 77

LYNCHBURG, VIRGINIA

School
Authority Bond more attractive
in this regard than the bond of
Tie
Pennsylvania Authority, for
the direct payments by the State
agency
to the Authority gives
greater assurance that the rental
obligations will be made. On the
other hand, un#er the Pennsyl¬
vania system of paying the State
appropriations first to the school
district, it is possible that the
funds so paid could be used by
Georgia

I

districts

the

other

for

current

needs in times of financial stress,

TELEPHONE I-2SH

leaving them short of funds when
authority lease rentals are

Preston L,

their

due and payable.
is

to

be

noted

the

Georgia

attempted

make the appropriations to

General
1953

permit.

will

Appropriations

provides for various

priations

to

be

allocated

The

Act

of

appro¬

for

CORPORATE Vim

Vice-President: Paul A. Ludlam,

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner

& Beane.

ending June 30. 1954, and to
each fiscal year there¬

LTNCH8UR0, VA
RICHMOND, VA.

Secretary-Treasurer: Neil D'Amico, Dean Witter & Co.
National Committeeman: Preston L. Phipps, E. M.
Alternate: Dan V. Bailey, Foster &

Adams & Co.

Elected:
,

December 18, 1952; Took Office: January 1,

1953; Term

Expires: January 1, 1954.

continue

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CORPORATE STOCKS & BONDS

NORFOLK, VA
MUNICIPAL BONDS
DANVILLE, VA

Marshall.

the

fiscal year beginning July 1, 1953
and

mETTPES

President: Preston L. Phipps, E. M. Adams & Co.

to

school

districts for capital outlay as per¬
manent
in
nature
as
the State

Constitution

D'Amico

Furthermore, it

that

has

Legislature

Neil

Paul A. Ludlam

Phipps

ROANOKE, VA:

\

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RLVEFIELO, W. VA
^wj;w,y,

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after until the Act is repealed or
modified.

While

this

is

not bind¬

future session^ of the
Legislature it is expressive of an
adopted policy for the betterment
ing

of

on

school

facilities

in

the

Thus, in this regard, the

State.

Georgia

School Authority Bonds and those

Authorities are
for, while both
the Legislatures of the States have
done all possible to establish a
nermanent program for revenue
financing of school buildings, it
must be admitted that, in theory
of

Pennsylvania

basically

on a

par.




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&

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Donald C. Sloan & Co.

COLLINS,

BAILEY, DAN V.
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BALFOUR, DAVID A.
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BOHRER,
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CAMPBELL, RICHARD M.
First National Bank of Portland

Daugherty,

Si

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of Commerce

NEIL

JOHN

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HILL,

J.

Co.

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U. S. National Bank

Bank

Witter

Dean

HESS,

BLAKELY, WILLIS H.

Blankenship, Gould

J.

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GIGER,

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ri

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STUEBE, EDWARD
Newhard, Cook & Co.
SUECK, ROBERT J.
The
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National

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Jones

IRVIN

Mills & Company

Scherck, Richter Company

and Company

D.

G.

STEIN, ELLIOT H.

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& Co.

E.

Walker & Co.

REIS, GEORGE J.

Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.
1IAEUSSLER,

Ernest D. Wilier

Walter A. Beckers

William J. Blake

Co.

Edwards & Sons

REIMER,

Newhard, Cook & Co.
GUMMERSBACH, ALBERT

Theis

Albert

REIMAN, W»I. L.
Edward

Brown

SLAYTON,

REDMAN, W. G.

GREEN, JR., ARTHUR W.
Boatmen's National Bank of St. Louis

Jones

D.

SHUEY, LEE G.

M.

I. M. Simon & Co.

REDDEN,

RUDOLPH

G. H.

Paul

ROY

POPPER,

MICHAEL

SHAPIRO, SUMNER

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PETERSEN, JOSEPH G.
Eckhardt-Petersen & Co.,

Jr., JOSEPH
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0.

CHARLES

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GODBOLD, EARL
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PELTASON, PAUL E.

EDWIN
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Glaser,

& Co.,

Peltason, Tenenbaum

L.

EDWARD
Cook & Co.

Newhard,
SESTRIC.

ROBERT A.
Richter Company

PELTASON,

B.

SCHMELZLE, ALBERT M.
Fusz-Schmelzle & Co.

SENTURIA,

Scherck,

GERSTUNG, WILLIAM B.
A.
G.
Edwards & Sons

Ralph M. Moberly

Haworth F. Hoch

Richard H. Walsh

GREGORY J.

Edward

O'NEILL, THOMAS
Eckhardt Petersen

GARDNER, FRED W.
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Co.

Newhard, Cook & Co.

WILLIAM T.
Donnerberg & Co., Inc.

Olson,

&

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OLDENDORPH, EDWARD
Smith, Moore & Co.
OLSON,

If.

Sanders

SCHLUETER

IRVING R.

OIILSEN,

FRANK
Cook &

Newhard.

DONALD

C.

SCHIRP,

JAMES

Mercantile Trust Company

FRIEDMAN, WM. STIX
Friedman, Brokaw & Co.

SPENCER H.

Brothers

SCHERCK, GORDON
Scherck. Richter Company

<fc Co.

Nordman

O'BRIEN,

Co.

Edwin

Stliel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporateu

Franc & Co.

FUSZ, Jr..

Hill

NOR.DMAN, JOHN

FELSTEIN, SAM

M.

Wibbing &

SANDERS.

NIEMOELLER, JOHN J.

FRED F.
Albert Theis & Sons, Inc.

FARROW,

H.

J.
Company

HERBERT

ROBINSON,
S.

Newhard, Cook & Co.

Midwest Stock Exchange

FRANEY,

O.

Edwards & Sons

NEWHARD, C1IAPIN

ESSERT, EARL

Henry,

G.

LOWELL

JAMES E.

NEWELL,

GEORGE H.

Brothers

ROACH,

Union Trust Co.

Louis

HENRY
Richter

RICHTER,
Scherck,

Company

Sc

White

4

Calvin Bullock

Hill

NEUWOEHNER, HIRAM

WM. F.
Dowdall & Co.

DRUMMOND, KENNETH
ERKER.

Thursday* October 8, 1953

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TAUSSIG, WILLIAM H.
Merrill Lynch, Pierce,

Fenner

TAYLOR, MEL M.
Semple, Jacobs & Co.,

Inc.

&

Beane

WALTER C.
& Co.

HAGENSIEKER, EARL
Reinholdt & Gardner

Newhard, Cook & Co.

President: Richard H. Walsh,

First Vice-President: Haworth F.

,

Hoch, McCourtney-Breckenridge

HARTNETT, WM. H.

UNDERWRITERS

DISTRIBUTORS

•

DEALERS

•

Morfeld, Moss & Hartnett

Co.

&

IRWIN R.
Scherck, Richter Company

HARRIS.

Second Vice-President:

Ralph M. Moberly, 1. M. Simon & Co.

Blake, A. G. Edwards & Sons.

Third Vice-President: William J.

Wilier, The

D.

Ernest

Boatmen's National Bank of

St. Louis.

Bunn, Stifel, Nicolaus & Com¬

National Committeemen: John W.

Incorporated; Earl Hagensieker, Reinholdt & Gardner;
H. Morfeld, Morfeld, Moss & Hartnett; Richard H.

pany,

NORMAN E.

HEITNER,

Blewer, Heitner Sc Glynn
HELLER, IRVIN A.
Newhard, Cook &

Secretary: Walter A. Beckers, Paul Brown & Co.
Treasurer:

HARVEY, JOSHUA A.
A. G. Edwards & Sons

Edward

TEXAS

Co.

HENRY, OLIVER B.
Henry, Franc & Co.

•

Municipal Bonds

•

Corporate Securities

WILLIAM M.
Metropolitan St. Louis Co.

HILLEY,

HAWORTH F.
McCourtney-Breckenridge

HOCII,

&

Co.

THEODORE C.
Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.

Walsh, Newhard, Cook & Co.

IIONIG,

JOHN K.
Taussig, Day & Co.,

IIOPP,

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

-

Inc.

Members Midwest Stock

Exchange

HORNING, BERT
Stix & Co.

A.

Edwards

G.

&

BAKEWF.LL,
&

H.

Pierce,

Fenner

&

JOSEPH

BARKAU, ELMER
Taussig, Day & Co., Inc.

BURNS,

BARKLAGE,

BURTCH, B. W.

I.

North

BYRNE,

Securities

&

Co.

Moss &

BITTING,

CARLTON,

BLAKE, WILLIAM J.

CARPENTER, JR., GEORGE R.

KENNETH H.
\
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

A.

Edwards

G.

&

Sons

CLOONEY.

BOND.

Devine

Bond

COOK,

BANK BUILDING

2, TEXAS

EDWARD D.
D. Jones & Co.

JORDAN, ROY W.
G. H. Walker & Co.

KAUFFMANN, JOHN R.

FRANK X.

KEANEY,

Stifel. Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated

KELLY, FRED S.
Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated

KENNETH

KERR,
A.

Edwards & Sons

G.

KLEIN, ELMER B.

Gardner

D.

HENRY M.

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

SHAPLEIGH
Theis & Sons, Inc.

CUMMINGS, JOHN P.
Newhard, Cook & Co.

BRAMMAN, EDWARD O.

Bramman-Schmldt-Busch,

R.

CREELY, WALTER J.

Jr., A.

Albert

&

Services, Inc.

Newhard, Cook & Co.

Co.

BOSCHERT, DANIEL C.
Morfeld, Moss & Hartnett
BOYD,

LEO

Bank

HOUSTON

Harvey, Klein & Co., Inc.

C.

& Securities

Savings

CONDIE, Jr., HERBERT
Newhard, Cook & Co.

& Co.

RAYMOND

Bankers

&

J.

Diversified

Reinholdt

BOHAN, WILLIAM
J.

Trust

Investors

BLEWER, CLARENCE F.
Blewer, Heitner & Glynn
C.

Harris

JAMES

CITY NATIONAL

JARRETT, ELMER
Newhard, Cook & Co.

Edward

CADLE, CHESTER J.
Central Republic Company

Co.

Edward D. Jones & Co.

JONES,

EMMET
Hartnett

R.

Morfeld,

Co.

WALTER A.

Brown

&

Henry, Franc & Co.

& Co.

CHARLES

American

BECKERS,
Paul

LOUIS

Simon

M.

BAUCOM,

EUGENE T.

Fusz-Schmelzle

tovitfs

KENNETH J.

JANSEN,

WINSTON

NORMAN D.

HUMPHRIES,

Keystone Custodian Funds

BUNN, JOHN W.
Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated

Co.

TELETYPE HO-395

Midwest Stock Exchange

Scherck, Richter Company

Beane

EDWARD

TELEPHONE CA-9944

HUEBNER,CHARLES

L.

Scherck, Ricnter Company

Sons

BRONEMEIER,

AYERS, C. T.
Merrill Lynch,
Stix

BROCKSMITH

SIDNEY I.

ASHER,

Incorporated

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company,

BROCKMEYER, E. H.
Goldman, Sachs & Co.

ARNSTEIN, Jr., FREDERIC A.

DARMSTATTER, E. W.
|
Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated

Inc.

BRECKENRIDGE, HUNTER
McCourtney-Breckenridge & Co.

DEMPSEY

BRENNAN, EMMET J.

DEPPE, RALPH

DUMONT

G.

Newhard, Cook & Co.

Brennan & Company

LAMSON, GUY
Albert

Theis

&

Sons,

Inc.

William C.

Jackson, Jr.

LAYT#N,

VINCENT
Newhard, Cook & Co.

LEVIS, EDWIN

Thomas

Newhard, Cook & Co.

Beckett, Jr.

LEWIS, HUGH W.
The

Boatmen's

National

Bank

of St.

Jackson

Winton A.

Louis

LOTTMAN, CnAS. S.

Kerwin, Fotheringham & Co., Inc.

James F.

DONALD

LUDWIG,

Richter

Scherck,

Jacques

Company

Edward D. Jones & Co.

McKEE, LOGAN
Barrett

Herrlck

&

Wm.

Co., Inc.

P.

Small wood

MAENDER, CLARENCE J.
G.

Walker &

H.

MALONE,
Paul

MUNICIPAL BONDS

Co.

VINCENT

D,

Brown & Co.

DAVID

MATTHEW,

S.

#

\

White & Company

MATYE,

JOHN

F.

Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.

CORPORATE

STOCKS

UNLISTED

LOCAL

&

&

BONDS

SECURITIES

MAYER, WALTER
Eckhardt, Petersen

& Co.,

Inc.

FIRST

MEYER, EUGENE J.

Municipal Bond Corp.
MILLS, ANDREW S.

INVESTMENT

Newhard, Cook & Co.

V

MILLS, R. G.
R.

I

Mercantile

Mills & Company

G.

MOBERLY, RALPH
1.

R. A. UNDERWOOD &
Mercantile

Bell

Bank

Teletype DL 492




CO., INC.

Bldg., Dallas 1, Texas
Riverside 9295

M.

A.

G.

Telephone
RAndolph 6461

Simon & Co.

MOREY,

Jr.,

RICHARD

Edwards &

MORFELD,

Sons

EDWARD

New

Morfeld, Moss <fe Hartnett
LESTER

Brokaw

Building

DALLAS
Wires

Teletype
DL 346
to

York, Los Angeles, Houston, Galveston, Beaumont,
Waco and San Antonio

MOSS. MORRIS

Friedman,

COMPANY

BANKERS

Bank

Direct Private

H.

Morfeld, Moss & Hartnett

MOUSCHER,

^Ollthwedt

&

Co.

fi

TEGELER, JEROME F.
Dempsey-Tegeler Sc Co.
TENENBAUM. HARRY
Peltason, Tenenbaum
III.

THELS,
Albert

Co.

&

'

LEONARD

RICHARD

sulphide, which is present in sour
gas, has in the past kept many
natural
gases
from the market,
and added greatly to expense of
such gases when marketed.
Sul¬

U.

Newhard, Cook & Co
WALSH, ROBERT A.
Dempsey-Tegeler Sc
WEBB.

FRANK

J.

C.

Si

&

'v/ ;

Jack L. Hudgins

President: Howard C. Ross,

Company

Jr.,

Si

contains

of

National

Bank

of

Saunders & Co., Inc.

Secretary: Robert M. Saunders, M. A.

St.

1953: Took

January,

Gardner

A.

9

ROSTER OF MEMBERS

Hill Brothers

Merrill

Inc.

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner Sc Beane

HERMAN J.
Dempsey-Tegeler & Co.

W.

billion

cubic feet,
in

the

and future

older

geologic section

are

reserve

part

of the country. In

area

expected
very

sub¬

four to five

above

the

in

drilled

surface

a

level.

sea

time,

present

a

well

Green

At

is

the

being

River Basin
of

elevation

10,070

feet, perhaps the highest drilling
well in the world today.

area

recovery of

feet to more than 10,-

3,000

feet

000

indicate

has

since

been
about

Oil

1867,

pro¬

in

the

and

yet

known

million long tons of sulphur. The

large

bulk

plored and deeper sediments be¬

of this lies

where

centages of

Bennett & Co.

E.

James

from

duction

Basin

GEORGE L.

square

stantially. Present reserves would
a

this brief paper,

talking about a sediment¬

are

of at

in

the

Big Horn

concentration

per¬

range

from

E. Richmond & Co.

BOYCE,

BANKSTON, Jr., W. L.
Carl M. Loeb. Rhoades Si Co.

ZINZER,

FRANK R.

BEENE,

ALLEN, HARRY

ZAEGEL, JOHN F.
Bramman-Schmldt-Busch.

largely

are

will probably exceed

to increase this

Office: January, 1953; Term Ex¬

January, 1954.

pires:

the

gas

sour

area

sedimentary

of

covering roughly 150,000
miles, with all sorts of
in the physiographic conditions ranging

presently

Wyoming. Commercial

gas reserves

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner

Securities Co.

Treasurer: Robert H. Jordan, Mid-South

S.

JAMES

largest

about one-fourth

for the production" of oil and
but that it? currently yields
than 6% of the oil 'and gas

sary

valu¬

a

in its en¬

United States neces¬

rocks of the

less

great

the

that
area,

volume

the

demand,

elevated sul¬

nuisance to

known reserves of

400

Elected:

Reinholdt

YATES,

The

asset.

discoveries

Louis

EUGENE

able

& Beane.

WILLER, ERNEST D.

YALEN,

a

confined to

Leftwich & Ross.

Vice-President: Jack L. Hudgins, Merrill

Stifel, Nicolaus & Company, Incorporated

Boatmen's

Robert M. Saunders

Robert H. Jordan

WICKMANN, W. JACK

The

phur from

Rocky Mountain

Jr.. JULIAN
Sc Company

White

tirety,

gas,

:

WHITE, JULIAN

WHITE,

and

Mountain

ary

A.

Company

Howard C. Ross

&

supply

Rocky

we

WHITE, F. HOWARD
Goldman, Sachs Si Co.

White

in

have in recent years
Co.

&

Conclusion
estimated

is

It

with

together

extraction,

changes

Co.

EDWARD

White

phur

VINCENT C.

Weber-Mitchell

WHITE,

Co.

X.

Devine

WEBER,

page

sulphur, which is obtained in the
sweetening of sour gas. Hydrogen

Glaser, Vogel & Co.
WALSH,

jrom

Rocky Mountain Area's Natural Gas Resources

Inc.

Sons,

rUOMA8, JOHN R.
Blair, Rollins & Co., Inc.
VOGEL,

Continued

Memphis Security Dealers Association

-

•

ALBERT

Theis

73

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

Number

Convention

8

to

50%

sour

gas

by volume.

areas

remain

still

unex¬

coming within reach of the drill¬
ing

bit

toward

are

forever

beckoning

unexplored horizons.

BROWN

BURCH.

Merrill

Pierce, Fenner Si

Lynch,

Beane

CROSSETT, E. GORDON
The First National Bank

CURD, H. PRICE
Federal

Securities

Inc.

Co.,

FOSTER. WALTER T.
Carl

FREDERIC, FRANK D.
Equitable Securities Corporation

When
V

*

Rhoades Si Co.'

Loeb,

M.

GRISSOM, WILLIAM

'

M.

RICHARD

Searching

Investment Bankers

S.

& Co.,

Saunders

A.

Bank

National

Planters

Union

HARRIS,

Inc.

HUDGINS, JACK L.
Merrill

Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane

JORDAN, ROBERT H.
Mid-South Securities

for

Co.

KITTLE, CHARLES M.

%

LANCASTER, JAMES C.
Nat'l Bank

Union Planters

JUSTIN

LEEKER,

and GAS

OIL
trading

underwriting

★

rfAi

m

J.

R

K

E

T

&

Co.

GROOM

WILLIAM

Leftwich Sc Ross

retail

*

Bradford

C.

LEFTWICH.

S

LIMERICK, AYLETT B.
Goodbody Sc Co.

The

*

DALLAS

TEXAS

EARLY F.

MITCHELL.
First

Bank

National

PERSON, HARRY O.
Goodbody & Co.

ICITHHE/TELN

SECURITIES

SAM

RISON,

Standard Securities Co.

MERCANTILE COMMERCE BLDG.
Riverside 5471

TELETYPE

DL-334

OAUAf, TfXAS

ROBERTS, JACK D.
Bullington-Schas & Co.
ROSS, HOWARD C.
Leftwich

Sc

Ross

SAUNDERS, M. A.
M. A. Saunders Sc Co.,

TEXAS SECURITIES
ACTIVE TRADING

Rauscher, Pierce

FRANCIS D.
Bullington-Schas Sc Co.

SCHAS,

WENDELL
W. Spragins Sc Company

SPRAGINS,

MARKETS

Inc.

SAUNDERS, ROBERT
M. A. Saunders Sc Co., Inc.

R.

&

Co,

R.

Underwriters and Distributors

STEWART, MEACHAM

Houston Natural Gas, Com. &
Houston

Kirby Lumber Corp.

Pfd.

Light. & Power Co. $4.00 Pfd.

San Antonio Transit Co.

Slick

Airways, Inc.

Johnston Testers, Inc.

Longhorn Portland Cement Co.

Johnston Oil & Gas Co.

Brewing Co.

Central Power & Light Co.,

Texas Industries, Inc.

4% Pfd.

E.

Bennett &

Co.

NICK'A.
Memphis Securities Company

Welex Jet Services, Inc.

Duncan Coffee Co. Class "A"

Garrett Oil Tools, Inc.

Lone Star

James

THOMAS,

Jr.,

J.

RAILROAD

THOMPSON, EDWARD F.
Union Planters Nat'l Bank

TREXLER,

R.

INDUSTRIAL

FRED

PUBLIC UTILITY

J. C. Bradford Sc Co.

BANK & INSURANCE

WARD, B. FRANK
J.

C.

Bradford

&

Co.

TEXAS

WHITMAN, A. L.

All

MUNICIPAL

Bullington-Schas Sc Co.

San Antonio and Houston Bank Stocks

SECURITIES

WOOTEN. ROGER
R. B. Wooten Sc Company

Quick Firm Bids On All

Texas

Active

NSTA Convention

Municipal Bonds

Trading Markets

Announced for
>

Russ

The
OFFICERS
C. L. WEST

W. G. HOBBS, Jr.
D. MUIR

E.

A.

Membert

Midwest

the

Alamo National Building

SAN ANTONIO 5

Fannin

SA

Direct and Connecting

National

Association

Stock Exchange

M. RUSS

Wires to:

23

4324

&

53

annual




York dk Los Angales

has

announced

convention

for

will be held at the Claridge
Atlantic City, N. J.,

that

Telephone:

1954

Riverside 9033

Hotel,

September 22

through 26, 1954.

at

Mackinac

dates

DALLAS 1,

Security Traders

The Convention in
Dallas, Houston, Calvetton, Now

Mercantile Bank Building

1954 and 1955

& Company

Island,

HOUSTON
WACO

TEXAS
Bell

SAN ANTONIO

Mich.,

to be announced

later.

be

exact

AUSTIN
LUBBOCK

HARLINGEN

Direct Wires to New York, St.

1955 will

Teletype:

DL 186 and DL 197

Louis and other

Principal Markets

THE COMMERCIAL and FINANCIAL CHRONICLE

74

Continued

Wichita Bond Traders Club

from

Thursday, October 8, 1953

8

page

pie, but

Why Sales Are Lest
aown

tney

are

selling.
if

salesman knows what he

tne

does

he

when

thinks,

he

what the other fellow
he

thinks.

The

knows

ctoes

when

salesman

must

tactfully present his case in such
way that the prospective pur¬

a

Warren Cortner

Alldritt

H.

Mason H. Feese

Don

H.

Alldritt, Mid-Continent Securities Company,

Cortner,

The

Ranson-Davidson

When

the

their part tne smoke stacks

ao

be

Secretary: D. K. dinger, Lathrop-Hawk-Herrick Company, Inc.

wheels

better

Mid-Continent

WAR

Brooks &

CLINGER,

Company,

Inc.

O.

D.

CORTNER,

K.

SMITH,
The

Inc.

WARREN

E.

Company,

SULIIVAN, WILLIAM
&

Co.

Sullivan

White

&

A.

Co.

WILLIAM

The

GLENN

A.

Inc.

Company,

P.

Inc.

says,

"It

that

I

The

Inc.

Ranson-Davidson

Company,

Inc.

YVILKINS, C. HOWARD
Harris, Upham & Co.

Inc.

Investment

Co.

Sills,

Pairman

Harold W. Clark

&

thus giving him
the

was

of

rest

over

20

that

90%

a

his

life,
ago

years

all

human

is made positively and
negatively and is in direct
conformity to nature's laws. When
that

learned

big

truh

it

thinking and

my

foundation

for

III

suc¬

"I's"

Three

fellow he

His

is.

very

prospect for

the first time he sizes you up and

that wireless of his will come

over

they

and

impressions

many

re¬

Incorporated

Kirkpatrick, Jr.
II

DISTRIBUTORS

—

—

DEALERS

fully used his
keep himself

wares

things

big

in
of

a

—

Industrials

When
of
we

must

on

three things

MARKETS

WITH, RETAIL OUTLETS

by

three

that

Let

than he leaves.

I maintain that
and

look

must

salesman

The salesman is

part.
the

he

house

act

There

prospect.

&

Kirkpatrick, Inc.

Members Midwest Stock

315 FOURTH AVE.

N., NASHVILLE 3, TENN.

TELETYPE—NV 353
wire

to

Exchange

4-3312

&

59

uses

a

If he
represents a high-grade organiza¬
tion then he must place himself
in the attitude of a high-grade
represents.

Third, when a salesman believes
his proposition and gets the
other fellow to believe in him,
then it is a comparatively easy
matter to get the prospect to see
what he sees.
In that way the
electrical circuit is completed and
in

thing

the

persuading. The
must

be

the

or

some¬

H

Distributors

Firm

1

Dealers

Offerings

with

and

In

the

States

Securities

•

General

Market

the

proportions

most

the

part

teristics

of

indicate

charac¬

individual.

middle

line

the

"goods,"

or

services.

Take the question of the voice.

high

rarely
The

pitched

over

the

sale

a

Sell Ourselves

first
sell

himself.

thing
is

Not

conviction.

low, vibrant voice is the

which is
Let

the

more

look to the speed of the

us

any faster than the mind tells me
to make it go. I cannot
wag my

tongue

any

faster than ideas

and talks rapidly under normal
conditions and I will show you a

quick thinker.

On the other hand,

show

man

me

the

Clinic

make

us

this

of

clinic.

Will each of you

set up

in

your

where you

sition

and

tions

sales

a

right now
mind some recent
had a good propo¬

Here
Can

a

have

as

there

as

yet
We

proposi¬

many

individuals

are

Let us lay them all out
the

on

table

and

discover why we

that sale.

I believe

if

see

we

did not make
I

answer

can

the question for you.
If it is

a

he

thinks

of

two

sale

his

that

any

man

proposition

to

only services but the

is

an

true, and it is, that the
effect which is caused

coming

harmonious
do

must
one

not

be

or

together

relationship,
make

the

something

more

of

the

in

then

foot

and

If he
ask

is

to

you

he did

wants to kick you out.
interested at all he will

not

repeat it

or

tell

get you.

So

then,

successful salesmen

we

with

wrong

few minutes let

to dove-tail
our
ideas into the
speed of the other fellow's mind.

When he talks

slowly, slow down.
quickly, speed up.

If he talks

Let us say that this "lost sale
about which you are thinking was
not due to the way you handled
your

prospect.

elsewhere.

Then

Now

services"

must look

we

let

or

us

the

consider

"presenta¬
The sub¬

things

Analysis and Construction. The
biggest word in the businessman's

dictionary I believe is "Analysis."

study
You cannot answer a letter any
these three items to see why we better than
you can analyze it. If
did not make that specific sale
you can analyze the letter you can
which you have in mind. Let us answer it for the answer
is in the
discuss this question of the cus¬
analysis every time. Likewise you
tomer. The subject that helps us cannot answer
any objection to
is
here
Human
Nature
Study, your proposition, or handle
a
a

us

sometimes called Character Anal¬

problem

ysis. I have

than

never

yet seen

a

good

salesman who did not pride him-

you can

in

business

any better
analyze it, for if
analyze it completely you

you

can

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TELETYPES ME-283
BANK

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•

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YORK

HOUSTON

HARTFORD

BIRMINGHAM

GREENSBORO

Securities

H. Frank
Herbert

'

UNION

PHILADELPHIA

JACKSON.

MISS.

Burkholder, Vice President and Manager Municipal Department

Pettey, Assistant Vice President and Manager Municipal Trading Department

STREET,

as

must learn

ATLANTA

ORLEANS

you

if ject that helps here is Commercial
in
its
two
branches
of

out of which the sale is made.

For

knock

words, he

to

there Logic

sale

three

a

to

ways
In other

it. Then too, .if you
talk quickly to a slow thinker he
gets nervous, has an itching of the
you

NEW

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come

to the tongue to be
wagged. Show
me
a
man
who moves quickly

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persuasive.

NASHVILLE

toT Mmm Uta
•

voice

nervous

carries

ever

that idea out.

Sales

Let

we

MEMPHIS

TELEPHONES 8-5193

The

'

The

Municipals

MEMPHIS

the

for

inherited

the

tion of the proposition."

NEW

OF

time

naturally I cannot go into the de¬
tails of this subject but let me
say that the color, the form and

Quotations

Government

with

limited

BONDS

United

coiur,

three

services

must

1

proportions.

do

to

form

by the salesman, the customer and

In general terms let us call

The

XMCMFHift

with

idea.

Bids

/

ARK

two

Human Nature. Two

have

them

"the

tionship.

■

lan¬

many

which they negotiate.
your case, it is stocks, bonds
and services. It may be simply an
over

the customer and the services
together in a harmonious rela¬

1

in

likewise there are jusi
elemental characters in the

seven

beats

top ^present.

The

man,

■

in

all

are

then

the customer's mind meet

Firm

we

class.

same

will

sale

a

illustrate it

us

In other words, the sale
is the result of bringing the sales¬

IN

mathematics

me

you

only

are

is made.

SPECIALIZING

therefore

and

let

point,

there

proposition (services) then

Underwriters

this

good prospect
did not make that sale.

When the salesman's mind and

Scherck, Richter Company, St. Louis, Mo.

all

guages,

voice. I cannot make my hand
go

gentleman;11

case

In

this

LONG DISTANCE

music, 2b letters in the
English language, 10 characters in

the

sample of

a

searchlight
individual sale

parallel lines.

who does the

of

the

an

bottom line is the customer

Clark, Landstreet

the

in

into just two things that are movable about
him,
Is this fellow here for such as voice, language, -poise,
the purpose of doing me good? gestures,
handshajke, walk, clothes,
Or is he here to do me good?
In etc., ail go to shotw not what the
other words, is he here to leave man
thinks, but how.
more than he takes away or is he
here trying to take away more
The Voice of the Customer

big

represents the salesman,

one

one

is

out of which

be made.

can

TRADING

surely

as

notes

questions.

true

&

that

see

do

The

true teaches

turn

we

analysis

success¬

to

way.

salesman

a

teacher and

a

Municipal Bonds

Just

seven

or

loss

at

themselves

solve

see the
hands of ail those here who have

and he should

inspired

a

these three "I's."

Public Utilities

are

is

who
speaks
slowly and acts deliberately under
salesman needs to
be equipped with three "I's" — never failed to make a sale when normal conditions and I will show
Information, Illustration and In¬ you had a good prospect and a you a slow thinker. This does not
mean that one will be more suc¬
spiration. He should keep himself proposition that the prospect
cessful than the other.
It simply
well informed not alone regarding should
have.
Hands
up!
Since
means that if you are
his proposition but the service it there is no
talking to a
showing of hands the
quick thinker and you talk slowly,
can render to the user; he should
proposition seems to be unani¬
be able to illustrate through pat mous. We have all fallen down every time you put up an idea

function

Insurance and Bank Stocks

he

and

of

teli great book of

his bearing, his attitude
approach, all have a lot to
properly starting - a sale.

Wnen you approacn a

tnere

scale

deuce of

a

presence,

At

Every good

William Nelson

UNDERWRITERS

Direct

laid

genuine

stories of those who have

,

revo¬

cess."
The

Harris,

Edward L.

B. W. Landstreet

ACTIVE

his

progress

the

YVOODBURY, T. BOWRING

Null

of

I

the sale is made.
Company,

HAROLD
Harold

2%

on

learned

lutionized

VINK, DIRK W.

L.

Small-Milburn

NULL,

Company,

THOMAS, ROBERT YV.
Thomas Investrrfent Co.

McKinney Ohmart Company,

The

Corp.

I
CLYDE

McKINNEY,

MILBURN,

A.

Ranson-Davidson

who has been

income

the service,
income for

Columbian' Securities

The

Inc.

retired

in

living

now

a man

multiplied by the
number of years he has been in

Company

MELVIN

con¬

not

Bennett

MARSHALL,

Wahler,

and

The way out is

fraternity,

annual

STAMPS, JAMES R.

Ranson-Davidson

ELLIOTT, PAUL V.
James

LAWRENCE W.

SMITH, KENNETH E.
Zahner

it cannot ail

course,

once.

Washington,

The Rittenoure Investment Co,

Company

Lathrop-Hawk-Herrick Company,

The

of

gradual development of

a

recently

Securities

prosperity and
industry will be

One of the top-most men in the

ROSTER OF MEMBERS
RITTENOURE,

coun¬

selling along positive,

sales

ALLDRITT, DON II.

the

of

structive lines.

Treasurer: Mason H. Feese, Small-Milburn Company.

BROOKS,

salesmen

belching

through
1

oi

try

be done at

Com¬

pany, Inc.

go

what

leiiuw

fine

a

in

humming. Of
Warren

otner

do

the

Inc.

Vice-President:

of

the hoarded

let

this

tfy

selling talk about nimseii to

a

tne

wealth and put it into circulation.

will

patron.

not mean that he should put up

the

will

President:

uo

on

chaser

Don

prospective

a

failed

why he

man

conclusions

real answer.

a

as

job and naturally policies of the house and the man¬
doing a poor job of agement of the concern.
becond, he must sell himself to

the

on

certain

he

why
for

ask that

you

reached

NASHVILLE 3, TENN.

TWO

WALL STREET,

NEW YORK 5, N. Y.

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Convention Number

answer

tion of the
a

It is

points, not words, that

suade.

time

The

of

the

per¬

veritable

living

in

of

When

the

with

We are
"know-why"
age.

a

is

customer

the

ties

presented

of

user

much

proposition

your

it

service

will

Enthusiasm

in

what

of

it

is,

profits

"He

best."

serves

but

—

the

thusiastic

more

of

Just

most

who

little

a

a

money

more

find

the

greater fire of

to build the

way

first

must

service.
much

Too

said

be

cannot

on

this

question of the proper ar¬
rangement of selling points. Many
salesmen get the cart before the
horse.
They rush in with some
big idea and explode in the pres¬
ence
of the customer and then
wonder

of

method

mind

getting

of

the

an

idea

into

other fellow.

I

companion talk to this one
on "How Sales Are Lost" which
I
call
"How
Sales Are Made."

have

is

will permit
that talk which
quite another story.
to

give you

There

are

four kinds of peoole

students, the adepts
ters.

people are indifferent. They
and do not seem to

the

We find

and the mas¬

that about 60% of

until he aroused himself from the

is,

sleep of indifference, climbed out
of the bed of "what's-the-use-it-

they are seek¬

tive-ness" and cancelled his mem¬

They are in a grow¬
ing attitude toward life. Someone
has said, "Don't be ashamed to be
green for when a thing is green
it is growing. It is only when it
becomes ripe that it begins to get
rotten."
Our job as salesmen is

bership in the "I don't care" col¬

do

not know

care.

27%

that

students,

are

their eyes are open,

ing to learn.

to

ourselves

keep

green

our

lose

about your proposition

Enthusiasm is con¬
tagious but, like every other qual¬
ity, it may be overdone to the
point of being classified as fanat¬

We

12%

adepts, that is, they are skill¬
at their work and it is cer¬

are

ful

on

into

up

studentship.

We

alike

are

in

time.

is given,

us

Every
on

a

moment

on

these

qualities of faith and courage.

said, "If you will tell me a

thing often enough I will believe
it whether it is true or not." We
have
been told
so
many
times
than conditions are

bad, that peo¬

ple haven't the money, that people
will not buy and a lot of similar
things.
some

truth

Well, the truth is that
people have money.
The
is
that
some
people are

The

sales

being made.

are

In

depression I had a

former

a

who

man

was

opposite of faith is doubt; the

automobile

salesman over in

a

and

fear

killed

have

successes

of

killed

The

men.

all

than

world

the

more

anyone

busi¬

the

of

have

ever

him

else

making

was

the street. I asked

on

day how he did

one

than

company

it.

abused

as

will.

we

It

in

on

do

fellows

the

All

secret.

little

a

of

rest

Continued

of the

not

on

seem

page

con¬

is

not

the lack of time but it is the lack
of

will-power

utilize

organize

to

time

our

that

makes

and

DEALERS

DISTRIBUTORS

UNDERWRITERS

the

delightful thing to see a difference between men. We are
who is really skillful. told that every man is as lazy as
leaves
only 1% who are he dare be. After over a quarter
a

salesman

This

masters.

The
much

room

there

are

this:

no

so

is

there

why

reason

at the top is because

Notice

few masters.

master

became

ever

master until he was first an

adept

no

until

he

student

so

became

ever
was
ever

first

a

an

adept;

adept

student;

became

a

a

no

student

of

a

of

men

century in studying all kinds
under all kinds of condi¬

tions it is my firm

take

salesmen

conviction that
chance

more

Johnson, Lane, Space and Co.
INCORPORATED

on

this question of laziness than any
other
breed
of animals
that
I
know

of

especially true
on

men

commission basis.

a

their

they

work

can

CORPORATE BONDS & STOCKS

their

is

time

Municipal Bonds

They kid

believing
that
own and that

into

themselves

Georgia and South Carolina

This is
who sell

about.

anything

or

not as they like.

& LOCAL SECURITIES

salesmen
require
too
supervision. You show me
salesman whose supervision line
Many

much
a

is

long and
value

whose

Likewise you

that

man

the sales¬
little or no

show

BELL

me

requires

AT

AUGUSTA

SAVANNAH

ATLANTA

I will show you one
line is very short.

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supervision and I will show vou
very valuable man.
The differ¬

a

in

ence

lies in the difference

men

thev

that

stuff

the

in

board the ballast of

We
I

them

powers,

us

into

supervision.
alike in what

"talents."

like to call

call

STOCKS—BONDS

all of

are

put

Throw over¬

their 1.440 minutes.

You may

qualities,

capacities,

MUTUAL FUNDS
A

•

OVER-THE-COUNTER DEALER

us

is

man

a

four sided being. Let

represent it on the blackboard

square.
One side we shall
"ability," that is of the head,
where we know things. Ability is

by

a

thinking, remember¬
ing and imagining.
Some sales¬

made up of

think

Georgia, South Carolina

Others

think.

men

and

think

they

others just think that

they think that they think. When
the salesman knows what he does
what the

when he thinks he knows

Tennessee, North Carolina,

We

can answer

that.

sales

there

that

are

lost

that customer many
because the sales¬

himself does not know

man

STATE AND MUNICIPAL BONDS

.

in South Carolina
our

Prosperity is

—

just

a

are

that

five definite judgments

might

be

passed

on

a

busy little town

few miles from

one

Throughout the Southeast,
salesmen and net-work of
towns

That

and small.

Retail distribution

our

means

means

when you

19 offices, 100

private wires cover big
retail

we're

distribution.

good folks to call

have large blocks of stock to sell

This coverage

also enables

markets in many

us to

or

are

this

bad.

Take

this

subject

of

Memory.
Established 1925

Upon leaving a prospect did you

"Gee, if I had only thought
of that one thing I believe I could
have landed him." You have only

ever say,

The

Robinson-Humphrey Company,Inc.

one

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or

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and Other National

Exchanges

presence

When
r-r

Investment Bankers

is in

of the prospect. All
the thinking you do afterwards
will not help that case.
It may
help the next one if you are wise
enough to use it. Memory plays a
tremendous part in persuasion.
the

RHODES

chance to think and that

you

are

most any other

selling services
tangible propo¬

buy.

maintain trading

southern and national issues.

proposition. There is only one
good judgment, the
other four

CORPORATE BONDS AND LOCAL STOCKS

of

S. C. offices.

other fellow does when he thinks.
In influencing

Alabama, Louisiana & Florida

\

Where is Prosperity?

call

ESTABLISHED 1894

'

•

what-not.
Ability

•

He

replied by saying, "I will let you

trouble

great

who

row

sales for the

more

that

is

also

truth

buying.

opposite of courage is fear. Doubt

ness

each of

dav

two

The

spend

us

armies

Importance of Time

or

about

that

find

also

moved

and

ony

Let

funny

the

Dooley,

know

You
man,

and signment, 1,440 minutes to be used

growing.

indifferent, the

in this world—the

why

we

icism.

a

Sometime maybe you
me

Henry J. Arnold, Geo. Eustis A Co., Cincinnati; Harry L. Arnold, Goldman, Sachs
A
Co.-—the oldest President present at the Convention presenting the retiring
President with a gift from the Past Officers Association

why they cannot make
tainly
There is an orderly proper

sales.

frozen

the

than you are.

fire

little heat and more fire
gives more heat; so a little service
gives little pay and more service
brings more pay. The man (or the
organization) who wishes to make
gives

is

salesman

out

thawing

yours

The Rotary Club

what it will do.
motto

is

the

to

Remember that prospect of
will not be any more en¬

the

so

proposition,

four-

this

can

like the torch which the plumber

to

Not

render.

of

properly call
"Reliability." Some of the quali¬
ties here are faith, courage, loyal¬
ty, honesty and enthusiasm.

pipe.
benefit

side

second

square-man we

uses

the

doubting and then we wonder
we
don't succeed. We doubt

Reliability
The

Service
about

keep on

and doubt and doubt and

and then we wonder why we

logical selling points, he then
what you see and

Talk

one

man

particularly in
that we doubt

us,

times like these, is

sales.

own

the

make the

which

ability.

will do his
thinking and pass his own
judgments; so the function of the
salesman today is to paint a logi¬
cal, clear, concise picture of his
proposition into the mind of the
prospective purchaser.
sees

men

of

all

with

doubt the man¬
agement, we doubt the customer's
of ability to buy. We doubt ourselves

differ in the degree
development of the quali¬

ability

talking machine in

imagina¬

constructive

in

Concerning this question of

tion.

salesmanship has passed.

Salesmen need to be

future use.

trained

verbal

cyclone and human windmill and
the

sell it to the imagina¬
prospect. It is sold for

sition you

is in the

analysis.

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from

page

the problem, to answer the objec¬
tion, to meet the situation without

75

telephoning
house.

Why Sales Are Lost
clear, open field and I
before and

making

am

sales than I have

more

made

ever

having the time of

am

life."

my

The

fellow

that

it

says

cannot

be done is usually interrupted by

somebody doing it. If
are

feeling of confidence so
know that

we

are

that

we

reliable and

we

thee

remembers."

us.

We

durance

to attain mastership we
must establish within ourselves a
men,

what
with

of
to

amount

Hercules

a

anything.

in

contact with

Let

have

to

hurry

us

a

similar

on

to the

We must be

sales

Endurance

do

to

with

do not keep

has

lost because

are

ourselves in the

digging

graves

our

lack

decide

to

of

and

decide
the

once

our

of action. That

our¬

You'show

the

and

act.

me

their

who

himself

for

information

is

at

hand

the

in

home

the

and

court

starts

between

the

wife

its work.

misunderstanding

There

have the wee, wee, man.
of the smallest man you

him

compare

possible and you will
the small man. if he

man

notice

the

with

that

is

the

soon

it.

I

like

the

land

ness

of

larger

One has

developed

little

ability.

reliability and the

other has

more

and

around the square.

so

on

We

hand

have
in

ence

of the

that

seen

stuff,

same

the

wish

and

that

it

breathing backwards
There are just
things to do to keep our-

pelvP-7 fit
we

are

hut the

question

is,

are

You

will

notice

on

have

we

now

built up three sides of the square
which are Ability, Reliability and
Endurance.

A-R-E

spells

Are.

That
am

of

doing them rightly?

is what you are and what I
but what we "are" does not

amount

to

much.

A

Quaker

in

you

a

the

man

man

who

who takes

has

a

lot

difficulty in getting the "name

that

time

ment.

talents.

Many salesmen lose out be¬

they lack initiative which
thing with¬
out being told.
It really is the
ability to find a way to answer
cause

is the power to do the

of

effectively.
Each

these

&

Underwriters

&

Distributors

Corporation
Securities

of

qualities or
only in the
development of

the

we move

asunder,

We marvel

be traced to

one

the

undeveloped

or

undernour¬

Lots

of mistakes

ished

qualities.

come

from

STOCK

BIRMINGHAM

nesses,

Teletype

BH

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Long

9983

the

So

sales

himself

man

it

we

go

is

dark

And hug

Till

them close

the

as

years

Richmond

us

transgression
And

thus

men

rise

and

fall and

Not Understood.

success

has

(EVery

its

deficient

eorresoonding

aualitv.

When

light,

disappears.

ness

his perfect-

fertilized,

Understood,
measure

harrow

The

LYONS, LAURENCE H.
Allen & Company, New York

giants by their
gauge,

MAGID, SAMUEL E*

poisoned shafts of falsehood

Are

oft impelled 'gainst those who
mold the age—
Not Understood.

Not

Hill, Thompson & Co., Inc.
New York

derision

and

Understod,

make

we

much

so

MAGUIRE, FELIX E.
Stroud & Company, Incorpo¬
rated, Philadephia

MAGUIRE, JAMES B*
J. B. Maguire & Co., Inc.
Boston

of trifles;

Hast

oft

years
on

or

the

MARKHAM, EDWIN J*

destroyed a
in making

our

Corpora¬

tion, Cleveland

Wertheim

there falls

souls

&

friendship

Co.,

New

York

MARTIN, JOHN L.
Pennsylvania Railroad

a

New York

chilling blight—
Not Understood.

'Denotes Mr.

and

Mrs.

efficient
dark¬

comes,

When the soil js

sterility

memory

LONG, MARTIN J.

souls with

poor

stunted vision

Oft

nualitv

disappears,

when health comes, sickness

when

LESTRANGE, GEORGE E*
Arthurs, Lestrange & Co.
Pittsburgh
The First Cleveland

Not

bright side to it. Man's
does not lie so much in And

his nerfection but in

LEE, GARNETT O., Jr.

Scott, Horner & Mason, Inc.

virtue oft seems to

fancied slight

a

Latshaw

&

City, Mo.

Sterne, Agee & Leach
Birmingham

by,

90

not

picture but

Kansas

impressions

The Bright Side
a

LATSHAW, JOHN

gather false

we

The thotless sentence

makes

Geyer & Co. Incorporated

Uhlmlann

is

lost

are

right.

ahilitv.

so

foes

there

comes

forgetfulnec^. nnd

BETTINGER CORPORATION

Understood,

improper

like.

Manv

the

there is
Distance

digestion,

and

sales.

EXCHANGE

Branch—Montgomery 2, Alabama

indecision,

poor

feeding

ALA.

lack
of
fear,
dis-

dullness of imagination, laziness,
tardiness, sickness, nhysical weak¬

This

3,

doubt,

17

LEE, ALONZO H.
Not

of

dishonesty,

page

New York

wonder

of

thinking

judgments,

because

MEMBER MIDWEST

illogical

imagination,

Jovalty,

more

forgetfulness. lack

observation,
unsound

or

from

KRASOWICH, JOSEPH D.
Bonner & Gregory, New York

and

live and die—
may

Continued

KRIS AM, WILBUR *

creep

years.

the lost sale

or

Not Understood.

Not Understood.

62

them.

with

STERNE, AGEE & LEACH

our

some

then to Thee—

NSTA Convention

Our paths grow wider as the

the

would draw a

nearer

another, they'd be nearer

one

In Attendance at

Not Understood,

differ

That almost sale

Municipal Bonds

has

us

capacities,
We

powers.

degree

So it is with

of

men

The nations

profit

of

Initiative is another big, impor¬
tant factor in will-power develop¬

see,

God, if

By Thomas Bracken

Alonn

less harshly when they

cannot

Not Understood

it is not lack of time but it

will-power to organize
our time.
Men differ
in the degree that they use their

To

Understood."

we

utilize

Oh

you

by an
understanding of this Poem, "Not

rnpn

is lack

and

the dotted line."

Or judge

little

in busi¬

show

Many

me

Oh God, if men could see, a
clearer

might be

man

could

pass

Not Understood.

salesman in

every

every

world

seasons

differ¬

by

noble spirits

many

away—

little

seven

it.

show

you

as

the

I hope

poem.

for thpt matter.

the

yes,

breaking,
How

between

house

and don't know it.

their stomachs and don't know

the

.

the

memorized

is normal, has every quality that
the big fellow possesses. The one
has a little ability and the other
a

-

Here

Ah!

How many hungry hearts are

divorce

As

comes

and

customer

greased.

of sympathy.

today

the

man

Understood, how many
are aching

breasts
For words

un¬

misuderstanding

as

nhysically is in the
Why Ufa is life, and then
a
long time to decide and act degree of'the development of their
to sleep—
physical
parts.
We
have
seen
when he has the facts and I will

on

Not

us.

soon

comes

who

men

larger.

we

largest

quick closer
other

are

"area"

others who build it small and

has

salesman

a

quickly

There

success.

know,

Here

punctuality.

due

to

customer looks for another house.

determine the degree of

man

Think

qualities—deci¬
dispatch, perse¬

and I will show you a
of business.
On the

Many are
their liver and standing

on

his

will-power. Many

initiative,

can

us

teeth and don't know it.

sitting

a

are

we

verance

prop¬

with

of

Something

because

As

our

As
soon
as
misunderstanding
Combining the four sides of the
comes between the employee and
man, using the initials of the four
the employer the employee is on
words, we have A-R-E-A-S. In
other words, the sides of the area the toboggan and the toboggan is

not

We have not trained

some

sion,

we

phvsical condition. Many of

are

are

physical "endurance."

Lots of sales

er,

selves

our square

lost

are

action.

The third side of

is

the

build

men

from the

comes

derstand

the

then

third side of the four-square-man.

failures are
understand
other fellow and get him to
Many

to

and

A-R-E-A-S

Action

get everyone that we come

feeling.

and

punctuality
let me just

enough

is needed.

more

1

must

it

So

have

might

of

despatch but
take
of your time to consider
this treat quality of
"persever¬
ance."
r' %

to

Ability of a Socrates, the Reliabil¬
ity of an Abe Lincoln and the En¬

sales¬

we, as

importance

his
son,
"Nathan, it is not what thee eats
that makes thee fat, it is what
thee digests.
It is not what thee
reads that makes thee wise, it is
said

Philadelphia

to know that there is any business
to be had so this is giving me a

to
the
We might also discuss the

writing

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went to the personnel
office, and looking for it in Washington, D. C.
he said, "will you
just listen to
Security in Death Only
something, and then we will go
In my way of
out. I want to see if
thinking, that is a
you observe
meant.

we

Chas. W. Scranton & Co.

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Thornburgh Co.

Co.,

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looking for it. gone beyond ourselves.

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something

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I

So I go
the fact

going to be secure.
around speaking about

are

Strength

have

1
of

have got to look some¬ mouth, by telephone, and why
besides
Washington can't you be that way otherwise?
I can see you good
for some of the security we want. (applause)
The next tmng that 1 should like Republican people are sitting back
smugly.
You
know honesty has
to call your attention to is the fact
come.
But I am going to deflate
that America, trying to give lead¬
ership to the rest of the world, you, because through history there
is no evidence that Republicans
must be strong politically, very
have
a
monopoly on decency,
that you

else

where

Because peace, like war,

strong.

It is possible for cor¬

(laughter)

political achievement in a
ruption to come again, unless you
sense.
Our pioneers had a feeling
are
alert to it constantly.
It is
that down inside of them they
not a matter confined to one party.
is

a

themselves.

could learn to govern
For too long a

has

from

gone

said, "No,
Our

it.

and we have
not capable of

us,

are

we

resources

so

that

fairs,
And

that

is

a

terrible thing

being

to confess,

centralize."

must

we

for

Democrat.

a

And I think

But I still believe it.

it is wrong.

have had another rev¬
olution recently in which the peo¬

ple of America rose to an occasion
said,

in

and

ment/'

Why

shouldn't

be

as

the

I

decency

just

years,

govern¬
gov¬

our

honorable as

with you people

and

anybody tell
never

next

The

I

have

me a

thought

never

for
had

lie, and I have

that

of

any

you

parties.

believe

the

in

great factors of production.
I don't think it is any disgrace to

four

capitalist. I am one. I only
have sixty-five cents, but I be¬
lieve in the great tenets of cap¬
be

a

labor

that

think

I

structure, of our eco¬
we must

ownership

system. I think
understand the idea of
nomic

It

lost

a

established

That is why we

labor.
our

division
dignity of all

the

and

labor

of

country.
seems

me

good bet.

a

done

to

you

people have

Maybe

you

have

it, and I don't know it, but

somebody ought to be getting out
a

it
might translate
their
fingers, to young people when I talk to
whether it be through a shovel or them at commencement because
they

minds

that

their

ideas

with

foursome. I like to give

a

to

publication
calling through

a scalpel or through a they have the impetuous urge to
to their re¬ drafting board. That is the* genius do things quickly. We adults are
like our adolescent youth. When
sponsibilities and their opportuni¬ of America.
We have another weakness that we can't do them, we get frus¬
ties instead of our thinking con¬
stantly of just our rights. It would we don't like to talk about. Today, trated and an apathy or indiffer¬
seem to me
that security dealers across America, you find the one ence develops or we go fishing,
might do that, and they might at thing that made other civilizations or we have a conference some¬
the
same
time render a
great fall, and you and I don't think where, or a convention to get
service to
America.
Because I much about it. In days of inflation away from it all. As I look back

like

would

America

to

in

everybody

see

own a

cheapest thing in America is
and break a home. For

the

share of something

make

to

these times, as I read history

over

and

I

as

to interpret it now

try

three marriages to¬ to you—and I say this rather
York Central or the New Haven day, spirtually or legally made, tritely—first, the mills of the gods
Railroad. We have a share in it there will be one legally dissolved. grind slowly and exceedingly fine.
deal They do grind slowly, and don't
but we are not conscious of it, As an educator who must
because we do not have a certifi¬ with young people, I must say that be discouraged and frustrated be¬
cate that says so.
four out of five problems I have cause you can't have peace to¬
it

had

Must Protect

Our

though

even

There is

like

America and its

time.

long

a

better recapture

We

I have stud¬

for

communism

ied

to

like

would

I

protect our liberties.

every

It takes time.
We may
arise from broken homes of our morrow.
But don't give
country. We established this coun¬ choose and use.
try for the dignity of the home. up, for then you lose, because you

Liberties

fourth point I would

a

make.

to

New nearly

be

to

politically and economi¬

be strong

abused.

have

it.

And the second

leadership must

the

whom

thought is that
would

gods

destroy,

should
they first make mad with power.
be eliminated from every place cally, as I indicated. Those are the And as you look back over many
of high responsibility in schools, "securities" with short maturity. of the leaders in the times in
and churches and government. But,
which you and I have lived, and
They are selling at a premium

to understand each
other. I think people have to un¬
derstand the capital structure, the
have

take

to

dared

have

I

minutes that
with you

conclude this 40

I

the attention of people

thing is to be strong
I

trying to devote myself to
field
of
training people's

that

Peace Takes Time

and see if I am not right.

over

am

might be distributed

that

Week"

America

economically.

security traders of America?

have dealt

22

and

honor

want

"We

dignity

ernment

"Preserve

capital

Decency

on

Now you

and

keep two strong

italism.

No Monopoly

why I hope we will

is

that

And

deteriorat¬

are

We have become so intricate
ramified in all of our af¬

ing.
and

me

time, our philosophy

dog

"preserve

Why don't we have a

indecent or dishonorable.
dealt vtfith you by word

were

I

week." We
have
"preserve
the children
week." Why don't we have a "Pre¬
serve America Week?" (applause)
have

Sources oi America's

We that

the Forest Week."

"Preserve

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Thursday, October 8, 1953

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78

publication. You know we have

I

in

fear of communism, I hope

our

of

none

communism

that

think

there

But

now.

two

are

others that have been discounted.

tions, prove people guilty because
of their associations.
In America They are of infinite value. They
a
man is
innocent until proven are the
long range things,
the
guilty. There are too many people
"growth securities," shall we say,
all over the country who believe
modern

times.

done

through

in the doctrine of

of

tion.

may

be

and

what

guilt by associa¬
Northwest country I
because I was called a

In my

know,

American

I

because

associ¬ through

was

within

through and through

to be riddled

have

talking about.

That is what I am

This is

in

world of compensations.

a

to

like

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