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VOLUME 17

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NUMBER 96

Washington, Thursday, M ay 15, 1952

TITLE 16 COM M ERCIAL
PRACTICES
Chapter I Federal Trade Commission Docket 5923

P art 3 D igest of C ease O rders
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COVIDEO, INC. ET At.

SubpartAdvertising falsely or mis leadingly: 3.15 Business status, advan tages, or connectionsHistory: Person nel or staff: Plant and equipment:
Producer status of dealerManufac turer: 3.90 History of product or offer;
3.130 Manufacture or preparation. In connection with the offer for sale, sale or distribution of coin-operated televi sion sets or any other similar electronic product or any component part thereof in commerce, and on the part of respond ent corporation, and the two individual respondents, individually and as officers thereof, and on the part of respondents agents, etc., representing, directly or by implication, 1 that they manufacture coin-operated radios or coin-operated television sets or any component parts of either; 2 that respondent Covideo, Inc., is not a new company, or that it has been in business for any greater period of time than is actually the fact; 3 that they maintain a staff of competent engineers and technicians, or adequate facilities for research and experimentation either in the field of television or in connection with the development and manufacture of coin-operated television sets; or, 4
that the coin-operated television sets they sell embody the results of research and experimentation by their own staff of engineers or technicians; prohibited.
Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 722; 15 U. S. C. 46. Interpret or apply sec. 5, 38 Stat. 719, as amended;
15 U. S. C. 45
Cease and desist order, Covideo, Inc., et al., Docket 5923, Feb. 29, 1952

In the Matter of Covideo, Inc., a Cor poration, and Sidney I. Horwitt, Indi vidually and as an Officer of Said Corporation, and Louis Brown, Indi vidually and as an Officer of Said Corporation This proceeding was heard by J. Earl Cox, hearing examiner, theretofore duly designated by the Commission, upon the Commissions complaint, the answer of the corporate respondent, and a hearing at which the two individual respondents
appeared and testified, and at which testimony and other evidence in support of and in opposition to the allegations of the complaint were introduced before said examiner and were duly recorded and filed in the office of the Commission.
Thereafter the proceeding regularly came on for final consideration by said examiner on the complaint, the answer thereto, testimony and other evidence and proposed findings as to the facts and conclusions presented by counsel, oral argument not having been requested, and said examiner, having duly considered the record in the matter, and having found that the proceeding was in the interest o f the public, made his initial decision comprising certain findings as to the facts,1 conclusion drawn there from 1 and order to cease and desist.
No appeal having been filed from said initial decision o f said trial examiner as provided for in Rule X X II, nor any other action taken as thereby provided to pre vent said initial decision becoming the decision of the Commission thirty days from service thereof upon the parties, said initial decision, including said order to cease and desist, accordingly, under the provisions of said Rule X X II became the decision of the Commission on Feb ruary 29, 1952.
The said order to cease and desist is as follows:
I t is ordered, That the respondents, Covideo, Inc., a corporation and Sidney I. Horwitt and Louis Brown, individually and as officers of said corporation, and respondents agents, representatives and employees, directly or through any cor porate or other device, in connection with the offering for sale, sale or distribution of coin-operated television sets or any other similar electronic product or any component part thereof in commerce, as commerce is defined in the Federal Trade Commission Act, do forthwith cease and desist from representing, di rectly or by implication:
1 That they manufacture coin-oper ated radios or coin-operated television sets or any component parts of either;
2 That respondent Covideo, Inc., is not a new company, or that it has been in business for any greater period of time than is actually the fact;
3 That they maintain a staff of competent engineers and technicians, or 1 Filed as part oi the original document.
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CONTENTS
Agriculture Department
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See also Production and Market ing Administration.
Notices:
Sale of mineral interests; re vised area designation---------

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Air Force Department Alaska; withdrawing public lands for use of Department of the Air Force for military purposes see Land Management, Bureau of 2 documents.

Civil Aeronautics Board Notices :
Linee Aeree Italiane, S. P. A.;
hearing ____________________

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Commerce Department See Federal Maritime Board; Na tional Production Authority.

Defense Mobilization, Office of Notices:
Determination and certification of a critical defense housing area:
Bridgeport, Wash., area Lea County, N. Mex., area.
Wenatchee, Wash., area
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Economic Stabilization Agency See Price Stabilization, Office of;
Rent Stabilization, Office of .

Federal Communications Com mission Rules and regulations:
Stations on shipboard in the maritime services, miscellane ous amendments; correction-

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Federal Maritime Board . Notices:
Hamburg-Amerika Linie and Norddeutscher Lloyd; agreement filed for approval______

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Federal Power Commission Notices:
Hearings, etc.;
Aluminum Co. of America eta l_______________________ 4467
Kansas Gas and Electric Co__ .4467
Sylvania Corp. et al__________ 4467
Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. and Texas Gas Trans mission Corp------- ---------- 4467
Washington Water Power Co_ 4467
Young, Scott_________________ 4467

Federal Security Agency See Food and Drug Administra tion.
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