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VOLUME 21

EGISTER
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NUMBER 61

Washington, Thursday, March 29, 1956

TITLE 16 COMMERCIAL
PRACTICES
Chapter I Federal Trade Commission Docket €416

P ari 13D igest of Cease O rders
and
D esist
INTERNATIONAL WEAVING INDU STRIES, IN C ., ET AL.

SubpartAdvertising falsely or mis leadingly: 13.15 Business status, advan tages, or connections: Location; serv ice; size and extent; 13.55 Demand, business, or other opportunities; 13.60
Earnings and profits; 13.125 Limited offers or supply; 13.205 Scientific or other relevant facts. SubpartMisrep resenting oneself and goodsBusiness status, advantages or c o n n e c t i o n s :
13.1475 Location; 13.1555 Size, extent or equipment; 13.1560 Stock, product or service; Misrepresenting oneself and poodsGoods: 13.1610 Demand for or business opportunities; 13.1615 Earn ings and profits; 1 13.1740 Scientific or other relevant facts. SubpartOffering unfair, improper and deceptive induce m ents to purchase or deal: 13.1935
Earnings and profits; 13.2015 Oppor tunities in product or service.
Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 721; 15 TJ. S. C. 46. Interpret or apply sec. 5, 38 Stat. 719, as amended;
15 U. S. C. 45 Cease and desist order, In ternational Weaving Industries, Incorpo rated, et al., Newark, N. J., Docket 6416, March 9, 1956

In the M atter of International Weaving Industries, Incorporated, a corpora tion, and Wallace K atz, Individually and as an Officer of Said Corporation This proceeding was heard by a hear ing examiner upon the complaint of the Commissioncharging a corporation and its president, engaged in Newark, New Jersey, in the sale and distribution of a reweaving kit designated as Speedweav ing together with a course of instruc tions designed to prepare students thereof for working at home as com mercial reweavers, with falsely repre senting through statements made by their salesmen and in sales literature furnished them that personal instruc tion and supervision would be given to Amended to read as set forth.

each purchaser in respondents method of reweaving damaged garments; that reweaving could be learned easily and quickly by anyone through use of re spondents reweaving kit and course of instructions; that there was a great de mand for reweaving work and the serv ices of Speedweavers; that upon completion of respondents course of in structions, earnings of $3 to $5 per hour, $30 per week, and $200 per month, spare time, could be expected; that Speedweav ing was a new method of doing invisible repairing; that respondents would ar range with dry cleaners, tailors, and others to supply all reweaving work they could handle to persons completing re spondents course; that only a limited number of reweaving kits and courses of instruction would be sold in each area;
and that they maintained offices in New York, Chicago, California, and New Orleansand an agreement between the parties providing for the entry of a con sent order.
Upon this basis, the hearing examiner made his initial decision and order to cease and desist, which, by the Commis sions order of March 9,1956, became the Decision of the Commission.
The order to cease and desist is as follows:
I t is ordered, That respondents, Inter national Weaving Industries, Incorpo rated, a corporation, and its officers, and Wallace Katz, individually and as an officer of said corporation, and respond ents representatives, agents and em ployees, directly or through any corpo rate or other device in connection with the offering for sale, sale or distribution in commerce, as commerce is defined in the Federal Trade Commission Act, of a reweaving kit together with a course of instructions, designated as Speed weaving, or by any other name or names, do forthwith cease and desist from representing, directly or by impli cation:
1. That personal instructions and supervision will be given to each pur chaser in respondents method of re weaving damaged garments, unless such is the case.
2. That persons can learn reweaving easily or quickly unless restricted to the patch or overlay method of reweaving and unless it is disclosed that this is pos Continued on next page
CONTENTS
Agriculture Department Notices:
Disaster assistance; delineation of areas:
Oregon__________________
W ashington_____________
Alien Property Office Notices:
Vesting orders:
Colombia Société FrancoRoumaine de Petrole_____
Santierele N a v a l e Galati S. A____________________
Army Department See also Engineers Corps.
Rules and regulations:
Contract surgeons and civilian veterinarians; medical and dental attendance; miscella neous amendments________
Civil Aeronautics Administra tion Rules and regulations:
Restricted areas; alteration_
Civil Aeronautics Board Notices:
Northwest Permanent Certifica tion; prehearing conferenceCoast Guard Rules and regulations:
Explosives or other dangerous articles or substances and combustible liquids on board vessels; handling heavy con tainers of military explosives equipped with pulling bar as semblies and skids-------------Commerce Department See also Civil Aeronautics Admin istration; Foreign Commerce Bureau.
Notices:
Stemmler-Imex, N. V., et al.;
Appeals Board decision___ _
Defense Department See Army Department; Engineers Corps.
Engineers Corps Rules and regulations:
Jim Woodruff Reservoir, Flor ida and Georgia; reconvey ance of land or interests acquired therein to former owners______ _______ ____
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