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Show The National Enterprise , December 7, 1976 Pane nine Corporate Earnings continued from page Four Going public is tough. Keeping your seat is even tougher. Going public can be a great opportunity for growth (stock can often facilitate acquisitions) . . but its not much consolation if youre left on the outside looking in. We can make your company public and keep you in control. No need to worry about months of delays, either. We move . - quickly and precisely. Talk to us before you give your company away to a board of directors. You built it; you should keep it. (Datlam rruritirs (Corporation 747 E. South Temple Salt Lake City, Utah 84103 (801) 531-623- 6 Contact Richard L. Chatham, President Salt Lake City (801) 531-623- 6 Contrail Merger Looks Favorable special share- - owned 55 percent by Contran meeting of Valhi, Inc., Corp. (OTC .93, 1.06) con- - DALLAS A vened Nov. 17 and was journed until Dec. 15. The purpose of the meeting was to consider and vote upon a proposed merger with a ad-holde- newly-crcatc- rs subsidiary of d Contran. TRUCK LIME The merger, if adopted by holders of 80 percent of Valhi's outstanding stock, would result in Valhis stock- Does the difficult daily! Truck Line specializes in the transportation of specific commodities, including steel, machinery, construction and mining equipment, forest products, agricultural machinery and a variety of other products. Hauling heavy odd shaped loads is our business and we've become experts at it. The fact that we've now grown to where we rank in the top 10 percent of the over 500 Class 1 Specialty Commodity carriers in the United States is indicative of our success. F-- B We'd like you to become better acquainted with and invite you to send for our annual report. Write or call: Mr. Norton F-- B Parker Truck Line 1 945 South Redwood Road Salt Lake City, Utah 84104 F-- B holders, other than Contran, receiving for each share of Valhi common stock one share g of Valhi cumulative preferred stock with an annual dividend rate of $2 and a liquidation preference and redemption price of $25. non-votin- The preferred stock would be redeemable in whole or in part at Valhis option at any time on or after Jan. 1, 1982. Valhi would be required to redeem the preferred stock beginning in January 1982 and continuing pro rata through 1991, by the end of which time the entire issue will be required to have been redeemed. As a result of the merger, Contran would own all of Valhi's outstanding stock. Valhi said the reason for the adjournment is to allow We do the difficult daily! stockholders additional time to vote their proxies. The company said of the proxies returned to date, 78,471 shares or about 54 percent have voted in favor of the So far, proposed merger. about 64 percent of the shares, other than those held by Contran have returned The matter must be approved by 123,755 shares, in addition to the 286.133 shares held by Contran. proxies. |