Show Want Wan a Dividend Check Cheek Michigan Firm Seeks 11 I Lost L st Stockholders By Sam Earn D' D Dawson n NEW NEw I YORK YORK March 19 u Some stockholders a would d do do we well l to emulate lla e the wise virgins of the Bible and keep their lamps trimmed That way th they y would lighten the tasks of the secretaries of corporations cor cor- corporations o big bIgand and am arnall Take the case of the Hayes Hayea Manufacturing Corp which mak makes metal s 's stampings automatic stokers stok stok- t k- k ers tU marine marIn ge gears and electric hoists in sin Grand Rapids Mich Mch M h. h Its It's advertising in newspaper perl across cr s the coun country ry urging surging its lost or or misplaced stockholders stockholder to write in and get a dividend check Ha Hayes cs mal mailed ed out a II share last month but the postman brought back several hundred checks undelivered The stockholders stockholders stock stock- h holders moved away They hadn't bothered to let the secretary of Hayes know where the they could be fo found nd One reason reMon may be that the company hadn't I sent nt them a dividend check he k since 1929 and they had got out of th the habit of looking for one Other company secretaries have their troubles with the stockholders stockholders stock stock- holders and the postman too The Broad Street Investing Corp is fR mailing malling urgent pleas to its stockholders to mail in their proxies The annual meeting comes March ar arch h 30 34 and the management needs heeds the proxies to to be sure lure of ot a quorum among ong other things thing |