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Earl Perry Sr. Is<br />
Tent 45 Chief Barker<br />
NEW ORIJiANS— luirl l'crr> sr.. president<br />
of Oydcn-Pcrrv Theatres, h.is hcjii<br />
elected chief barker of Tent 45. Variety<br />
Club.s<br />
International.<br />
His election follows the recent death of<br />
past chief barker Eugene T. Calongne. The<br />
election took place July 29 at club headquarters<br />
in the Andrew Jack.son Restaurant,<br />
which was owned by Calongne.<br />
Perry had served as proiperty master before<br />
his nomination to the club's highest<br />
position. Tent 45 ha,s been involved in providing<br />
funds for the Bright School for the<br />
Deaf, the Burn Center at Charity Hospital<br />
and other children's charities.<br />
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Record 2nd-Quarter Sales,<br />
Earnings for Wometco<br />
MIAMI — Wometco Enterprises announced<br />
per-share earnings, net income and<br />
sales rose to record highs in the second<br />
quarter and first fiscal half of 1975, ended<br />
June 14.<br />
Primary per-share earnings in the latest<br />
quarter climbed 45 per cent to a record<br />
52.7 cents, compared to 36.3 cents last<br />
year, while net income rose 40 per cent<br />
to a record $3,039,000 from $2,173,000<br />
a year ago.<br />
Wometco president Mitchell Wolfson<br />
noted, however, that net income and earnings<br />
per-share figures include an after-tax<br />
gain of $414,000, or 7.2 cents per share,<br />
resulting principally from the sale of Channel<br />
12 of Jacksonville, Inc. "Even without<br />
this gain, second-quarter per-share earnings<br />
would have reached a new high of 45.4<br />
cents, a 25 per cent increase, and net income<br />
would have been up 21 per cent to<br />
$2,625,000," he said.<br />
Sales in the quarter rose 10 per cent to<br />
$40,177,000 from $36,645,000 registered in<br />
the similar 1974 period.<br />
In the fiscal half-year or 24-week period,<br />
primary per-share earnings moved up 35<br />
per cent to a record 82.8 cents from 61.2<br />
cents last year, while net income rose 30<br />
per cent to $4,782,000 against $3,675,000<br />
in 1974.<br />
Sales in the fiscal half-year reached $76,-<br />
545,000 from $69,709,000 last year, a 10<br />
per cent increase.<br />
Motion picture boxoffice receipts in the<br />
company's Florida and Caribbean markets<br />
remained about even with last year's record<br />
level.<br />
Primary per-share earnings are based on<br />
5,775,000, the average number of shares<br />
outstanding during the period, and 6,009.-<br />
000, the average number of shares for the<br />
comparable period of 1974.<br />
Wayne Visits Illinois<br />
From Central Edition<br />
SPRINGFIELD, ILL,—John Wayne and<br />
six<br />
business associates recently visited southern<br />
Illinois coal fields seeking a site for a<br />
coal gasification plant they intend to operate<br />
as a private enterprise.