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i rwr mrM wvra" Sn PALO ALTO TIMES, PALO ALTO, CALIF, MONDAY, APRIL 21, 196911 Business News Allstate reports growth Plumber pay set at $9.76 Atlantic microfilm firm, Areata merge Shareholders must vote PHILADELPHIA (AP) The 2,000 union plumbers in Philadelphia have negotiated a new contract which raises wage rates $3.25 to a top of $9.76 in May, 1971 meaning an annual income of $19,520 for a 40-hour week, including fringes. The new agreement, reached over the weekend, provides for -an 85-cent-an-hour boost on May I another $1.15 in 1970 and $1.25 more in 1971. The present pay is $6 an hour in wages, plus 51 cents in fringes. The fringes include hospitalization, insurance and pensions. (Santa Clara County plumbers now get $7.27 an hour, but new contract is under negotiation.

The amount of the wage sought hasnt been announced. Earl G. DuBois, president of the Mechanical Contractors Association of Philadelphia, said understands that Plumbers ing of records and information for industrial commercial and medical users, Including 1,000 hospitals throughout the nation. Atlantic also sells and leases equipment of its own design for producing, duplicating and viewing microfilms. The company serves the field of computer micrographics by producing microfilm directly from computer data.

Major Atlantic operations are located in New York, Indiana, Ohio, North Carolina, Texas and California. Atlantic will continue to oper ARMIN MILLER WILLIAM STEVENS Wells Fargo posts Areata National Corp. of Menlo Park and Atlantic Microfilm Corp. of Spring Valley, N.Y., jointly announced today the execution of a definitive agreement by which Atlantic will be marged into Areata. Making the announcement were Robert O.

Dehlendorf II, president and chief executive officer of Areata, and Peter H. Covert, president and chief executive officer of Atlantic. Under terms of the agreement, each common share of Atlantic will be exchanged for four-tenths common shares of Areata National Approximately 230,000 Areata common shares will be issued. The merger has been approved by the boards of directors of both companies, and is now subject to the favorable vote of Atlantic shareholders. Principal services performed by Atlantic are the microflim- Wals Fargo Bank has named two Menlo Park men, Harold B.

Bray Jr, left, and Paul A. Renstrom as vice presidents in its national division at the San Francisco headquarters. Data Disc Inc. names Stevens new president Business Notebook ate under the existing management group as an autonomous, wholly owned subsidiary of Areata National. Atlantic Microfilms sales for the fiscal year ended March 31 1968, were $2,155,000.

Net income was $18,762, and earnings per share of common stock were Scents. Allstate Insurance Companies, which has regional and zone offices in Menlo Park, reported today substantial new growth in premium volume for 1968. Chairman Judson B. Branch said that volume for automobile, homeowners, and other property and liability lines increased to $1-2 billion, up more than 16 per cent from 1967. It was a gain 'of more than $178 million from the previous years volume of $1.0 billion, and the greatest amount of annual increase in the companies history, Branch said.

Underwriting Income from property and liability Insurance operations in 1968 was 2.2 per cent of earnings premiums, or million before federal income taxes, a decrease of $18 million from the 1967 underwriting of $43.4 million before taxes. While the rate of auto accidents generally increased modestly in 1968, the average cost of various classes of auto claims climbed substantially, Branch noted. In addition, there was an alarming increase in the number of auto theft claims, with an estimated 815,000 cars stolen in the U.S. in 1968, up from the previous year, he continued. The number of claims settled during the year grew to a record 3.7 million, up 13 per cent from the previous high of 33 million the year before.

Allstate expanded its drive-in claim service from 538 locations to 591 locations in 1968. Its claim staff was enlarged from .8,480 to 9,118 employes, which the company says is the largest full time salaried claim staff in the business. Assets of Allstate, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sears, Roebuck and increased to record $2.1 billion from $13 billion in 1967. ert Hecton as video products advertising and sales promotion supervisor. Hecton, of Sunnyvale, had been with Sylvania Electronic Systems in Ronald D.

Parker has been named director of advanced computing systems for Optimum Systems Incorporated of Palo Alto. He had been with International Business Machines Corp-i earlier. Menlo man named head of financial executives Data Technology, Palo Alto, has appointed Luigi A. Conlni as a group vice president and general manager of its plastics companies group. Record fiscal year salee and earnings and a change at the top management level were reported today by Data 'Disc Inc Palo Atto manufacturer of disc memory systems for digital and video applications.

Annin Miller, president and board chairman since the company was founded in February, 1962, has appointed William W. Stevens to servo as president. The board of directors gave approval for the Miller will continue to serve as chairman of the board. -Stevens has been with the company, since its founding and most recently has been idee president and general manager of the display division. Will B.

Rodemann, formerly marketing vice president and a director of Data Pathing Inc. of Sunnyvale, has been elected marketing vice president of the Standard Register Co. of Day-ton, Ohio. Data Disc, for the fiscal year ended Match 3, reported sales of $3 million, up from $1 million the previous year. Profits are expected to be more than $200,000 for the year, compared to a loss of $50,000 the year before.

Data Disc also appointed Donald J. Ruder as vice president and general manager of the computer products divisions. He was formerly director of product development for the display division. Richard W. Calfee was named general manager of the display division.

John Shortal, formerly with Litton Industries, was named manager of a newly formed, manufacturing division. Donald P. Merriam, Sunnyvale, has joined Newell Industries as senior applications engineer after working for Scientific Data Systems in sales. Local 690 intends to allocate part of the $125 hike to fringes. DuBois said San Francisco has negotiated even a higher pay for plumbers, noting pay and fringes there will go to 10.65 an hour by 1972.

He said the new contract was reached after a bitter discussion. DuBois said the average plumber in our field worked a minimum of 2,000 hours last year. Thus under the new rate of $9.76, plumbers will be paid over $19,000 in wages and fringe benefits in the third year of the contract. In. San Francisco the union plumber scale will go to $10.65 an hour in wages and benefits April 1, 1972, in the last year of a six-year contract.

The present San Francisco scale is $9.58 an hour, of which $2.28 goes for fringes. The employer association said plumbers worked an average of 45 weeks a year. The American Institutes for Research, Palo Alto center for study on applications of technology in education, has named John Shearer as director of administrative services. He replaces Harold E. Fleischer, who resigned.

W. Drew Leonard of 780 Wal lea Drive, Menlo Park, has been elected president of the San Francisco chapter of the Financial Executives Institute. Leonard, who had served as first vice president of the group, is vice president and controller of Utah Construction and Mining Co. He has held various financial and management posts with the Ronald L. Allhands has been appointed quality assurance manager at Peninsula Micro-wave Laboratories.

Ampex Corp- has named Rob- Don MacGregor, former assistant sales manager at Motors, Menlo Park, and Sunnyvale man western winner Varian starts production of Clinac 4 accelerators his wife, Betty, have joined Tahoe Paradise Inc, South Lake Tahoe, the real estate division of Whittington Oil Co. MacGregor is an investment consultant and his wife a sales ing radiation to healthy tissue, he said. Each Varian accelerator forms an Integral part of a hospitals tumor center, a special ized 'department which combines equipment, instruments and highly trained medical and tw-hniml 1 personnel The first Clinac 4 to be delivered went into service in 1968 at OCon Firm seeks Japanese workers W. DREW LEONARD AN INVESTMENT COURSE in FAA program Hilbum Lee Rodgers of 941 Tamarack Lane, Sunnyvale, was named western region winner in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) aviation mechanic safety award program. Rodgers is an aircraft components shop mechanic for United Air Lines at the Engineering and Maintenance Base at San Francisco International Air port.

He was chosen for the honor from among airline mechanics in nine states for a design improvement in an aircraft stabilizer system. He now is eligible in the FAAs nationwide award company since 1948. He is a native of Utah, and was graduated from Brigham Young University. He received his graduate degree in business administration from Stanford University. Vaughn A.

Pitzer, controller for the tube group of Varian Associates, was elected second vice president of the finance officers group. Liaison post Barnes Hind Pharmaceuticals has named Lawrence J. Goldman as manager of scientific relations. Goldman was administrator for the Syntex Laboratories Inc. pharmaceutical research and development department before joining Barnes-Hind.

He also was responsible for liaison between the Syntex medical department and the Food and Drug Administration. At Barnes-Hind he will be in charge of governmental regulatory activities and clinical liaison with the medical profession. He will also represent the company to a large number of. professional groups. Goldman received masters and doctoral degrees from Baylor University at Waco, Texas.

An initial run of 15 Cliniac 4 medical linear accelerators is being assembled on a Varian Associates radiation division production line, Arnold El-dredge, general manager of the division said today. Varian has logged 25 orders totaling $3 million for the accelerators since they were Introduced last year, Eldredge said. Out of 18 linear accelerators ordered for medical purposes in the U.S. last' year, 15 were ordered from Varian. indicates that we are building five machines out of every six that will be installed in hospitals fids year, Eldredge added.

Advantages of the Varian Cliniac 4 over Cobalt 60 machines include rapid treatment time and a razor sharp definition of the radiation beam which allows complete X-ray treatment iff tumor areas while minimiz ESPECIALLY FOR THE WOMAN SHOPPER nor Hospital in San Jose and is currently treating more than 35 patients dally. We are stepping up our activities, to provide supervoltage radiation therapy equipment for many of the nations smaller hospitals and medium sized medical facilities. Our strong position in the market for cancer therapy machines, also furnishes a base for future expansion into other related areas of medical electronics, Eldredge said. A 4 Week Investment Class Will Be Held at The Emporium, Stanford Covering Raychem to acquire Chemelex Corp. Raychem Menlo Park-based manufacturer of irradiated insulation products, said today it has agreed In principle to acquire Chemelex Corp, Danbury, Conn, for an undisclosed amount of common stock, Chemelex, a closely held concern, manufactures and distributes proprietary heating elements.

Sales for the fiscal year ended. March 31, 1969, about $1.8 million. Raychem recently reported sales for the nine months ended March 31 of $32.5 million. 1 HOW TO DETERMINE YOUR OBJECTIVES. BASICS OF.THE STPCK MERGER TALKS OFF DALLAS Previously announced discussions between Honeywell, Inc, and Collins Radio Co.

toward a merger were terminated Saturday, according to J. H. BInger, chairman of the board of Honeywell, and Arthur A. Collins, president and chairman of the board pf Collins. HOWTO READ FINANCIAL NEWS.

Sensitivity class slated for secretaries' meeting TOKYO (AP) Kaynar Manufacturing Co. of Fullerton, Cat is trying to recruit Japanese machine tobl operators for its operations in the United States, the Japan Emigration Service said today. Numerous Japanese emigrate to the United States each year, -but they usually move at their own initiative or with Japanese government assistance. The Emigration Service said Kaynar is seeking 15 to 20 skilled workers, but it said it believed the U.S. firm is prepared to hire more if they are available and qualified.

For a five-day, 43-hour week, the U.S. company was said to be offering the Japanese work-ins a wage of $150 an hour or $560 a month. One U.S. official here said this is file equivalent to the monthly salary of some- top Japanese executives. In a survey conducted in mid-1967, the Japanese Machine Tool Trade Association said that for a 48-hour week the monthly wage per employe1 of its member companies, including bonuses and binge 'benefits, amounted to the equivalent of $160.

But since the survey was taken Japanese wages generally have risen at an animal rate of about 14 per cent, according to fim Ministry of Labor. Heads rentals MUTUAL FUNDS. PACKING -CRATING -SHIPPING The course will ba conducted by Mr. Robert Haight, account oxecutivo with J. Barth Co.

Monlo Park A day long sensitivity training session will form the annual nwminar this year of the local chapter erf the National Secretaries Association. The meeting is Saturday at De Anza Collage in Cupertino. Leading the seminar is Dr. John Font, a marriage, family and group counselor with a prl HOUSEHOLD GOODS COMPUTI FACILITIES EJECTS D'ART BY EXPERTS ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT WORLDWIDE COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL vate practice in San Jose. Emphasis will be on communicating more effectively with ones self and others.

About 200 secretaries are expected. The seminar is being held in conjunction with National Secretaries Week, being observed nationally this week, is open to all secretaries in the area. Miss Lorraine Anderson at Foothill College is taking registrations for the event, which will be held in. De Anza Col lege's Campus Center. WHERE PALO ALTO ROOM 2nd floor The Emporium, Stanford.

reeiestimatingTservice mi Gay Bues has been named director of rentals for the $15 million, 758unit Oak Creek apartment development on Willow Road in Palo Alto, developer Gerson announced. Before going to Oak Creek, she was in charge of rentals at Woodlake, an $18 million development at San Mateo. Woodlake was also developed by Bakar. Miss Bues has worked in real estate sales in San Francisco and has been associated with Firemans Fund Insurance as a department manager. She has also been a systems analyst with Remington Rapd.

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