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FEDERAL

REGISTER
1934

VOLUME 22

N lT E O

NUMBER 198

Washington, Friday, October 11, 1957

TITLE 16-COM M ERCIAL
PRACTICES
Chapter I Federal Trade Commission Docket 6760
P art 13D igest of C ease and D esist O rders NEW HAVEN QUILT & PAD CO., INC., ET AL.

SubpartFurnishing false guaranties:
13.1053 Furnishing false guaranties:

Wool Products Labeling Act. Subpart Furnishing means and instrumentalities of misrepresentation or deception:
13.1056 Preticketing merchandise mis leadingly. SubpartMisbranding or mislabeling:
13.1190 Composition:
Wool Products Labeling Act; 13.1212
Formal regulatory and statutory require ments: Wool Products Labeling Act.
SubpartMisrepresenting oneself and goodsGoods; 13.1590 Composition:
Wool Products Labeling Act; 13.1680
Manufacture or preparation: Misrepre senting oneself and poodsPrices;
13.1811 Fictitious preticketing. Sub partNeglecting, unfairly or deceptively, to make material disclosure: 13.1852
Formal regulatory and statutory require ments: Wool Products Labeling Act.
Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 721; 15 U. S. C. 46. Interpret or apply sec. 5, 38 Stat. 719, as amended, secs.
2-5, 54 Stat. 1128-1130; 15 U. S. C. 45, 68-68ci Cease and desist order, New Haven Quilt &
Pad Co., Inc., 6t al., New Haven, Conn., Docket 6760, September 18, 1957

In the Matter of New Haven Quilt &
Pad Co., Inc., a Corporation, and David H. Levine, Paul B. Levine, and Edward I. Levine, Individually and as Officers of Said Corporation This proceeding was heard by a hearing examiner on the complaint of the Com mission charging a manufacturer in New Haven, Conn., with violating the Wool Products Labeling Act by labeling as All new material consisting of wool batting bed comforters which contained substantial amounts of fibers other than wool, by failing to label some of the com forters, and by furnishing false guaran ties that their wool products were not misbranded; and with representing falsely that some of the comforters were mothproofed for five years by Westinghouse Ultra-Violet process, contained all new wool and chlorophyll, and sold regularly at retail at the fictitious price
of $24.95, all on streamers enclosed in the individual containers, thereby placing in the hands of retailers a means for de ceiving the purchasing public.
Following approval of an agreement between the parties containing a consent order, the hearing examiner made his initial decision and order to cease and desist which became on September 18
the decision Of the Commission.
The order to cease and desist is as follows;
I t is ordered, That respondents, New Haven Quilt & Pad Co., Inc., a corpora tion, and its officers, and David H. Le vine, Paul B. Levine and Edward I. Le vine, individually and as officers of said corporation, and respondents repre sentatives, agents and employees, di rectly or through any corporate or other device, in connection with the in troduction or manufacture for introduc tion into commerce, or the offering for sale, sale, transportation or distribution, in commerce, as commerce is defined in the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Wool Products Labeling Act of 1939, of bed comforters or other wool products, as such products are defined in and subject to said Wool Products Labeling Act, which products contain, purport to contain, or in any way are represented as containing, wool, reprocesed wool or reused wool as those terms are defined in said Act, do forth with cease and desist from:
A. Misbranding such products by:
1. Falsely or deceptively stamping, tagging, labeling or otherwise identify ing such products as to the character or amount of the constituent fibers con tained therein;
2. Failing to securely affix to or place on each such product a stamp, tag, label, or other means of identification showing in a clear and conspicuous manner:
a The percentage of the total fiber weight of such wool product, exclusive of ornamentation not exceeding five per centum of Said total fiber weight, of 1
wool, 2 reprocessed wool, 3 reused wool, 4 each fiber other than wool where said percentage by weight of such fiber is five per centum or more, and 5
the aggregate of all other fibers;
b The maximum percentage of the total weight of such wool product, of any Continued on next page
CONTENTS
Agricultural Marketing Service Notices:
Central City Sales Co. et al.;
deposting of stockyards_____
Petitions for modification of rate orders by market agencies :
Kansas City Stock Yards___
Union Stock Yards_________
-Utah State Board of Agricul ture; proposed authorization to charge and collect fees for inspection of livestock______
Westra Sales Co.; proposed posting of stockyard_______
Agriculture Department See Agricultural Marketing Serv ice.
Army Department See Engineers Corps.
Atomic Energy Commission Notices:
Aerojet - General Nucleonics;
proposed issuance of amend ment to license for operation of utilization facility at New York, N. Y_________________
Civil Aeronautics Administra tion Rules and regulations :
Standard instrument approach procedures; alterations_____
Commerce Department See Civil Aeronautics Administra tion; Federal Maritime Board;
Foreign-Trade Zones Board.
Committee for Reciprocity In formation Notices:
Woolen f a b r i c s ; tariff-rate quota; public hearing____ _
Customs Bureau Rules and regulations:
Drawback; return of merchan dise to customs custody_____
Defense Department See also Engineers Corps.
Notices:
Removal of obstruction from State of Arkansas; implemen tation of Executive Order 10730_____________________
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