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U.S. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, DC 20549
INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
Section 17(a)
of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f)
of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person* 2. Date of Event Requiring 4. Issuer Name and Ticker or 6. If Amendment, Date
OYO CORPORATION Statement Trading Symbol of Original
- ---------------------------------------- (Month/Day/Year) OYO GEOSPACE CORPORATION (OYOG) (Month/Day/Year)
(Last) (First) (Middle) ------------------------------------
11/20/97
ICHIGAYA BUILDING 2-6, KUDAN-KITA 4-CHOME ---------------------------- 5. Relationship of Reporting 7. Individual or
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(Street) Number of Reporting (Check all applicable) (check applicable
Person (Voluntary) Director X 10% Owner box)
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CHIYODA-KU TOKYO 102 JAPAN Officer Other (specify [X] Form filed by
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(City) (State) (Zip) (give title below) below) One Reporting
Person
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More than One
Reporting
Person
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TABLE 1 -- NON-DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED
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1. Title of Security 2. Amount of Securities 3. Ownership Form: 4. Nature of Indirect
(Instr. 4) Beneficially Owned Direct (D) or Beneficial
(Instr. 4) Indirect (I) Ownership (Instr. 5)
(Instr. 5)
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COMMON STOCK, $.01 PAR VALUE I BY OYO CORPORATION U.S.A. ***
4,000,000
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*If the form is filed by more than one reporting person see Instruction 5(b)(v).
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly. (Over)
(Print or Type Responses) SEC 1473 (7/96)
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FORM 3 (CONTINUED) TABLE II -- DERIVATIVE SECURITIES BENEFICIALLY OWNED
(E.G., PUTS, CALLS, WARRANTS, OPTIONS, CONVERTIBLE SECURITIES)
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1. Title of Derivative Security 2. Date 3. Title and Amount of 4. Conver- 5. Owner- 6. Nature of Indirect
(Instr. 4) Exercisable and Securities Underlying sion or ship Beneficial Ownership
Expiration Date Derivative Security Exercise Form of (Instr. 5)
(Month/Day/ (Instr. 4) Price of Deriv-
Year) Deri- ative
vative Security:
Security Direct
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Date Expira- Amount or Indirect (I)
Exercis- tion Title Number (Instr. 5)
able Date of Shares
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Explanation of Responses:
***The shares indicated as being indirectly owned by the reporting person /s/ E.M. HALL, ATTORNEY-IN-FACT 11/20/97
are held directly by its wholly owned subsidiary OYO Corporation U.S.A. ------------------------------- -------------
The address of OYO Corporation U.S.A. is 7334 N. Gessner Road, **Signature of Reporting Person Date
Houston, Texas 77040.
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal
Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note. File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. Page 2
If space provided is insufficient, See Instruction 6 for procedure. SEC 1473 (7/96)
Potential persons who are to respond to the collection of information
contained in this form are not required to respond unless the form displays
a currently valid OMB number.
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EXHIBIT 1
POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints Ernest M. Hall, Jr. the undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact
to:
1. execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's
capacity as an indirect beneficial owner of more than ten percent
of the stock of OYO Geospace Corporation (the "Company")*, Forms 3,
4 and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), and the rules
thereunder;
2. do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and
executive any such Form 3, 4 or 5 and timely file such form with
the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock
exchange or similar authority; and
3. take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of
benefit to, in the best interest of or legally required by the
undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by
such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this
Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall contain such
terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion.
The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might
or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or
revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact,
or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers
herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing
attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned,
is not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's
responsibilities to comply with Section 16 of the Exchange Act.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4 and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the
Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing
delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney
to be executed as of this 3rd day of November, 1997.
* The shares indicated as being indirectly owned by the reporting person are
held directly by its wholly-owned subsidiary OYO Corporation U.S.A. The
undersigned declares that the filing of this Power of Attorney shall not be
construed as an admission that it is, for the purposes of Section 13(d) or
13(g) of the Exchange Act, the beneficial owner of any securities covered by
this Power of Attorney.
OYO CORPORATION
By: /s/ SATORU OHYA
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Name: Satoru Ohya
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Title: President
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