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VOLUME 21

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NUMBER 89

Washington, Tuesday, May 8, 1956

TITLE 16 COM MERCIAL
PRACTICES
Chapter I Federal Trade Commission Subchapter B Trade Practice Conference Rules F ile N o. 21-442
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PROMULGATION OF TRADE PRACTICE RULES

Due proceedings having been held un der the trade practice conference proce dure in pursuance of the act of Congress approved September 26,1914, as amend ed Federal Trade Commission A c t , and other provisions of law administered by the Commission:
It is now ordered, That the Group I
trade practice rules as hereinafter set forth, which have been approved by the Commission in this proceeding, be pro mulgated as of May 8, 1956.
Statement by the Commission. Trade practice rules, as hereinafter set forth, are promulgated by the Federal Trade Commission under its trade practice con ference procedure. Such rules have ap plication to persons, firms, corporations, and organizations engaged in the sale and installation of:
1 Mechanical refrigeration units or systems for commercial Or industrial use; or 2 Mechanical air-conditioning units or systems for commercial, industrial, or home use.
As above used, the word installation makes reference to services the perform ance of which requires engineering knowledge and skill. Thus, window airconditioning units and mechanical re frigeration units which are of such size und type as to require but a plug in to an established electric power system are not to be considered as products to which these rules have application. The words air-conditioning units or sys tems make reference to units or systems which are either capable of low ering, or of both lowering and raising, e temperature of the air within an en closure and simultaneously effecting a substantial degree of control of the huhdity and circulation of the air in such enclosure. Units or systems which are resigned to raises but not lower, the tem peratureof air within an enclosure are
not products to which these rules have CONTENTS
application. The above is to be con strued as dehnement of the nature of Agricultural Marketing Service PaS9
activities to which the rules have ap Proposed rule making :
plication and is not intended as defineMilk in Upstate Michigan mar ment of the kind of products which may keting area______ __________ _ 3064
be designated air-conditioners or re Agriculture Department frigeration units or systems.
Manufacturers, wholesalers, and others See Agricultural Marketing Serv ice.
1 engaged in the sale of air-conditioning or refrigeration equipment or systems Alien Property Office are not to be considered as members of Notices:
the industry except to the extent that Vesting orders:
they install as hereinbefore explained Casa Regala, Bucharest, R u -N
such équipment or systems.
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According to available information, Commissio Termenykivitelies the aggregate annual sale of industry E. S. Aruforgalmi K. F. T __ 3072
products is between four and five billion Civil Aeronautics Administra dollars.
tion Primary objectives of the rules are the maintenance of free and fair competition Rules and regulations:
Standard instrument approach and the elimination and prevention of procedures;, alterations______ 3049
unfair methods of competition, unfair acts or practices, and other trade abuses. Commerce Department They are to be applied to such end and See Civil Aeronautics Administra to the exclusion of any acts or practices tion; Federal Maritime Board.
which suppress competition or otherwise Defense Mobilization Office restrain trade.
Proceedings for the establishment of Notices:
Changes in appointees state rules were instituted pursuant to indus ments of business interests:
try application. A general industry con-, Blackman, Harold S________ 3071
ference was held in Chicago on May 20, Brownlee, James F __________ 3071
1955, at which proposals for rules were LeSauvage, George Ross_____ 3071
submitted for consideration of the Com Lutes, Le Roy________________ 3071
mission. Thereafter, a draft o f proposed Walsh, Maurice C.____ ______ 3071
rules was published by the Commission and made available to all industry mem Federal Communications Com bers and other interested or affected mission parties upon public notice whereby they Notices:
were afforded opportunity to present Hearings, etc.:
their views, including such pertinent in Albuquerque Broadcasting Co.
formation, suggestions, amendments, or KO B -------------------------- 3067
objections, as they desired to offer, and Lincoln County Broadcasting to be heard in the premises. Pursuant Co. W LON
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to such notice public hearings were held Mensel, Robert A., et al______ 3070
in Detroit, Michigan, on January 6,1956, Ohio V a l l e y Broadcasting and in Washington, D. C., on January 20, Corp. et al---------------------- 3068
1956, and all matters presented at said Polk Radio, Inc., and Duane meetings, or otherwise received in the F. McConnell-_________
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proceeding, were duly considered.
Schafitz, Sanford A __________
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Thereafter, and upon full considera W CHS-TV, Inc. 2 docu tion of the entire matter, final action was ments ______ _________ 3069, 3070
taken by the Commission whereby it ap Proposed rule making:
proved the Group I rules as hereinafter Experimental and auxiliary set forth.
broadcast services;
remote Such rules become operative thirty pickup broadcast stations____ 3065
30 days from the date of promulgation.
Rules and regulations:
The rules. These rules promulgated Experimental and auxiliary by the Commission are designed to foster broadcast services; frequency C o n tin u e d o n n ex t p a g e
assignment__________________ 3064
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