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VOLUME 22

NUMBER 56

Washington, Friday, March 22, 1957

TITLE 16 COMMERCIAL
PRACTICES
Chapter I Federal Trade Commission Subchapter A Procedures, Rules of Practice, and Orders
Docket 6563
P art
13 D i g e s t
o p C ea se O rders
and
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PARLIAMENT APPLIANCES, IN C ., ET AL.

SubpartAdvertising falsely or mis leadingly: 13.15 Business status, ad vantages, or connections: Nature, stock, product or service; 13.75 Free goods or services; 13.155 Prices; 13.205 Scien tific or other relevant facts. Subpart Offering unfair, improper and deceptive inducements to purchase or deal:
13.1955 Free goods; 13.2063 Scientific or other relevant facts.
Sec. 6, 38 Stat. 721; 15 U. S. C. 46. Interpret or apply sec. 5, 38 Stat. 719, as amended; 15
U S. C. 45 Cease and desist order, Par liament Apliances, Inc., et al., Chicago, 111., Docket 6563, Mar. 5, 1957

In the Matter of Parliament Appliances, Inc., a Corporation Trading as Par liament Food Plan, and O. G. Fishbain, M. S. Gottesman, and E. M. Levin, Individually and as Officers of Re spondent Corporation This proc.eeding was heard by a hear ing examiner on the complaint of the Commission charging a corporation en gaged in Chicago in the sale of electrical appliances with falsely advertising its home freezers and freezer food purchas ing plan in newspapers, by radio and television, and otherwise, by representing that sale of the freezers was incidental to its wholesale food business, th a t it bad a food plant, bought food by the carload for resale at wholesale prices to participants in the food purchase Plan who could thus effect large savings, and that the freezer was given free at the end of a two-year participation Period, among other things.
Following entry of an agreement con taining consent order, the hearing ex
aminer made his initial decision and order to cease and desist which became on March 5 the decision of the Commission.
The order to cease and desist is as follows :
It is ordered, T hat respondents, Parlia ment Appliances, Inc., a corporation, and its officers, and O. G. Fishbain, individ ually and as an officer of respondent corporation, and respondents represent atives, agents, and employees, directly or through any corporate or other device, in connection with the offering for sale, sale, or distribution of food freezers and in the solicitation of subscribers to their food purchase plan in commerce, as commerce is defined in the Federal Trade Commission Act, do forthwith cease and desist from ;
1. Representing directly or indirectly:
a That respondents buy food for resale to participants in their freezer food purchasing plan;
b That respondents buy food in car load quantities ;
c T hat respondents are wholesale food dealers ;
6 That respondents have a food plant ;
e That respondents will place a freezer in a participants home and supply the necessary food for such par ticipant for 24 months at a total cost to the participant of $12.46 per week or any other amount th at is not in accordance with the facts;
f That participation in respond ents freezer food purchasing plan ena bles a participant to eliminate the retail grocer and purchase food at wholesale prices ;
g T hat participation in their freezer food purchasing plan will enable a par ticipant to effect a net saving from 25
percent to 50 percent in their food cost or any saving or percentage saving th at is not in accordance with the facts;
h T hat the carrying charges on a participants deferred payments is 6 perContinued on next page
CONTENTS
Agricultural Marketing Service
Page
Proposed rule making:
Persian Tahitian Limes; U. S.
standards for grades___ ____ 1935
Rules and regulations:
Grain standards; official grain standards of U. S. for wheat ;
correction________________ _ 1926
Agriculture Department
See Agricultural Marketing Serv ice; Commodity Stabilization Service.
Army Department
Rules and regulations:
Claims against United States;
claims under Federal Tort Claims Act_______________

1933

Civil Aeronautics Board
Rules and regulations:
Airplane airworthiness; trans port categories ; emergency evacuation provisions; cor rection___________________

1931

Commerce Department
See Federal Maritime Board.
Commodity Stabilization Service
Notices:
Oregon; establishment of areas of venue for marketing quota review committees------ --------- 1937
Rules and regulations:
Wage rates; sugar beets:
California, Southwestern Ari zona, Southern Oregon and Western Nevada : 1957 crop- 1927
Regions other than Cali fornia, Southwestern Ari zona, Southern Oregon, and Western Nevada : 1957 crop. 1929
Defense Department
See Army Department.
Federal Maritime Board
Notices:
Seas Shipping Co. and MooreMcCormac Lines, Inc.; agree ments filed with Board for approval_________________ 1944
1921