Chinchilla Producers Association

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IN THE MATTER OF ASSOCIATED CHINCHILLA SERVICES OF NEW ENGLAND, INC., DOING BUSINESS AS CHINCHILLA PRODUCERS ASSOCIATION, ET AL.

CONSENT ORDER, ETC., IN REGARD TO THE ALLEGED VIOLATION OF THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION ACT Docket C-1488. Complaint, Jan. 31, 1969-——Decision, Jan. $1, 1969 Consent order requiring a Hartford, Conn., seller of chinchilla breeding stock to cease making exaggerated earning claims, misrepresenting the quality of its stock, deceptively guaranteeing the fertility of its stock, and misrepresenting its services to purchasers. COMPLAINT Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Trade Commission Act, and by virtue of the authority vested in it by said Act, the Federal Trade Commission, having reason to believe that Associated Chinchilla Services of New England, Inc., a corporation, formerly doing business under its own name and now doing business as Chinchilla Producers Association, and John O. Lindgren, Billie J. Lindgren and Troy R. Loun, Jr., individually and as officers and directors of said corporation, hereinafter referred to as respondents, have violated the provisions of said Act, and it appearing to the Commission that a proceeding by it in respect thereof would be in the public interest, hereby issues its complaint stating its charges in that respect as follows:

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Complaint 75 F.

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO DISMISS BY RESPONDENTS HENRY S. CLAY fR. AND ROBERT E. LATHAM For the reasons stated in the accompanying opinion It is ordered That the motion to dismiss of December 2 , 1968, fied by and on behalf of respondents Henry S. Clay, Jr. , and Robert E. Latham, be granted;

It is further ordered That the complaint in this proceeding , and it hereby is, dismissed with respect to al1 respondents. By the Commission, with Commissioner MacIntyre not participating.