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INSIDE THE MARKET Bosfed Resians Market Puts on Drab STARDUST as President ShoW; Dow 30 Off 1.12 Has Armour Too Much from the two former officers and became chairman and chief executive officer on Jan. 13. William Scott, former partner in Arthur Andersen became president Fat for Sleek Greyhound? of TlmH Stiff Writ GETZE BY ERNEST A. SCHONBERGER, Times Staff Writer Bank Debits Continued from 9th Page Strip and has arranged to buy a sixth, the Landmark tower structure, which has not opened. Parvin-Dohrmann currently owns two hotel-casinos, the Fremont and the Aladdin.

The Stardust long ha3 been the biggest moneymaker on the Las Vegas Strip. Parvin-Dohrmann recently underwent a change in top management, with the sale of control by Albert Parvin, former president, and Harry A. Goldman, former chairman. Delbert W. Coleman, president of Seeburg bought 25 of Parvin -Dohrmann's stock TM Let Anelt Otartnthous Attn, rtportt Monday debits.

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91209 plans to reduce Its cs output for February, remained fractionally higher for a while but softened later and took a loss of at 78. Airlines were scrambled on news that President Nixon had rescinded President Johnson's decisions on the transpacific route awards. Continental Air. Lines, which was granted an international transpacific route for the. first time under the Johnson award, was apparently fearful of losing it.

Continental was the most active stock among the airlines, losing PAat 21.. Among other airlines, Eastern gained 13A, American lost Pan American gained Vx and United dropped Of 1,556 issues traded, 667, rose and 641 fell. New highs for 1968-69 totaled 30 and new lows 8. Pennzoil Drops Offer Pennzoil was the most active stock, off 3A at on 326,200 shares. Pennzoil was ordered in federal court to suspend its tender for American Smelting stock until the court could decide whether a merger of the companies would, violate the Clayton Act.

After the close, Pennzoil said that in view of the legal situation it would terminate the offer for Asarco. Asarco opened late on a block of 42,100 shares, down 10 at 87, but recovered partially to close at 90, off 7 points. Standard Poor's 500-stock index rose 0.02 to 120.40. The New York Stock Exchange index closed unchanged at $58.10. NEW YORK The stock market put on another drab Monday performance, closing mixed with softness in blue chips de-p sing industrial in-dexes.

Trading was moderate. Volume was 11.02 million shares, compared with 12.52 million Friday, The Dow Jones industrial average, which showed a slight gain at the start, ended with a loss of 1.12 at 937.47. Broader indexes did better, some showing plus signs. "Analysis saw the market as putting on a typical Monday performance when the major trend is down, even though it is interrupted occasionally by technical rallies. Some Wall Street obser-.

vers envisioned the market as making a desultory, drifting pattern for a couple of months, possibly until the effects of the government's anti-inflation drive become clearer. Some Hesitation The day's session was marked by some hesitation at about the time President Nixon's first news conference got under way, as the Street was not sure what to expect. Later, when the nature of his remarks become known, there was no apparent effect on stock prices. The decision of Chrysler to cut back auto production in was depressing, however, because Wall Street never likes to hear that kind of news from a major automaker. Chrysler was down VA at 5134.

General Motors, which said it had no present Reynolds is a weekly report called "Market Opinion" Temco-Vought started the ball rolling several years back by buying Wilson "one of the best major packers for profit consciousness," according to Miss Fisher. "Morrell was then acquired by AMK and various passes have been made at Swift including by Hunt Foods (the forerunner of Norton Simon "The whole industry has been sort of gobbled up," she phrased it without intending the pun. She notes American Mutual Fund, which Vickers Guide lists as holding 60,000 Armour shares, bought the bulk of its position in 1966. So did Investment Co. of America, a companion fund of American Mutual, with 120,000 shares at last report.

She says she had thought for several years that key fundamental changes were taking place at Armour "and the overall picture became obvious when it got rid of its fertilizer operation I don't think it ever made money." The fertilizer business was sold to U.S. Steel at the start of 1968. Armour Called 'Sleeping Giant' Thomas Williams, portfolio director of Chicago-based Technology Fund, says his company's position the biggest holding of any mutual fund at last report was taken in the wake of the Wilson and Morrell takeovers. He said he looked upon Armour as a sleeping giant, noting that Armour management was beginning to indicate it might "do something with the vast resources it had." This meant that even if no one tendered for Armour, there was the possibility of improvement from within. How about Swift "They're still asleep, as far as we're concerned," said Williams.

Would Greyhound fit well with Armour in the event a merger goes that way? Greyhound Becoming Conglomerate Replies Phillip Mullenbach, president of Growth Industry Shares Inc. of Chicago, one of the funds holding a block of Greyhound: "We don't know the motivation of Greyhound as to Armour. But the recent history of Greyhound indicates it's moving in new directions. Divisions other than bus operations have been growing nicely." He said Greyhound has been "progressively" becoming a conglomerate, diversifying into growth industries because its transportation growth is quite moderate, "more or less tied to the gross national product." But it won't earn the title of the swinging conglomerate of 1969, he declares. And now Armour Co.

seems to want to leave the driving to Greyhound. At any rate, the Chicago-based meat packer, the nation's second largest, has been fighting off General Host's bid for its stock and Monday indicated it is heading for Greyhound's protective cover. Greyhound has bid $65 a share for Armour. And the question is why does the bus company or any company want Armour in the first place? According to Wall Street sources, Armour has one of the worst profit margins in all industry. They claim that only its fellow packer, Swift has a poorer bottom line among major firms.

For example, in 1967, Armour netted only $22.2 million on sales of more than $2.1 billion a profit margin of about 1. In some years the margin has been considerably below 1. There are scores of companies with sales barely over $100 million that earn almost as much as the $13 to $15 million annual net Armour posted during many years in the 1960s. The answer in investing circles is, essentially, that Greyhound or someone will make some prime profits from that hefty flow of cash through the packer's till. Profits Coming Two Ways And they see this coming in two ways: a better profit on the meat operations, and a redeployment of some of Armour's resources into growth industries with better margins.

Armour has already made some moves to improve its earnings. It has diversified in consumer products, notably its Dial soap. And it acquired Baldwin, Lima, Hamilton a heavy equipment manufacturer noted for its locomotives way back but now a growing factor in water pollution controls. But, as analysts see it, the meat packer has plenty of room to diversify further. As to potential for improvement through internal development, Marjorie Fisher, a portfolio manager for American Mutual Fund and a longtime meat packer analyst, puts it this way: "If they raise the after-tax margin just to Vi, it's very attractive." That would add about $11 million yearly to profits or almost $2 a share.

The company's profits have ranged between $2.26 and $3.72 per share through the 1960s, with $2.67 in 1967, the last full year reported. Without trying to paint a picture for or against current purchase of Armour 6tock, now that it's trading close to the $65 Greyhound offer price, Miss Fisher says there's little doubt but that Armour will be taken over by someone. Acquisition of meat packers isn't a brand new idea. The aggressive Ling- Nelson P. Bosted, pres-.

ident of International Rectifier Los Angeles, said Monday he has resigned due to "irreconcilable differences concerning the future course of action in the pharmaceutical operations." He was named president last May. At the same time Inter-national Rectifier announced a drop in net income for the second fiscal quarter of 1968. This reflects the continuing problems in the firm's pharmaceutical group, said Eric Lidow, chairman of the board and chief executive officer. Lidow will assume the post of president, a position he held up until Bosted's appointment last year. Angus A.

Scott has been named executive vice president and will have responsibility for domestic pharma ceutical operations. Harry A. Cohen has been named vice president-finance and will continue' as treasurer. Net-Income Dips For the three months ended Dec. 29, 1968, IR reported net income of $52,050 or 2 cents a share on sales of $9,421,062.

This compares with a net of $61,651 or 2 cents a share on sales of $8,299,129 for the three months ended Dec. 31, 1967. Net income for the current quarter includes a special gain of $23,000. For the six month period ended Dec. 29, 1968, net income totaled $123,150 or 5 cents a share, compared with $436,814 or 16 cents a share in the year-ago period.

Sales were $17,909,325 as against $16,149,532 in the first half of fiscal 1967. Lidow stated that losses incurred by the firm's pharmaceutical group continued to subtract from profits. He added that intensive attention would be placed on drug operations during the second half of the current fiscal year. Results for the previous fiscal periods have been restated to reflect the acquisition of what is now the industrial measurements controls division on a pooling of interest basis. readable, penetrating and provocative-Pollack's own ideas, his own unique blend of technical and fundamental analysis on just what happened last week in the market-and just whattolookfornow.

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