[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 210 (Thursday, October 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 58760]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-28836]


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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION


Great Northern Finance Corporation; Order of Suspension of 
Trading

[File No. 500-1]
October 27, 1997.
    It appears to the Securities and Exchange Commission that there is 
a lack of adequate and accurate current information concerning the 
securities of Great Northern Finance Corporation (``GNFL''), of Denver, 
Colorado. Questions have been raised about publicly-disseminated 
information concerning, among other things: (1) arrangements, 
understandings or agreements to artificially control the market for 
GNFL's securities; (2) the ownership of GNFL's securities; (3) the 
status of a proposed acquisition of Lazer-Tek Designs, Inc. by GNFL; 
(4) the business prospects of Lazer-Tek; and (5) the business prospects 
of GNFL.
    The Commission is of the opinion that the public interest and the 
protection of investors require a suspension of trading in the 
securities of the above listed company.
    Therefore, it is ordered, pursuant to Section 12(k) of the 
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, that trading in the above listed 
company is suspended for the period from 9:00 a.m. EST, October 27, 
1997 through 11:59 p.m. EST, on November 7, 1997.

    By the Commission.
Margaret H. McFarland,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-28836 Filed 10-27-97; 4:36 pm]
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