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FORM 13F INFORMATION TABLE
VALUE SHARES/ SH/ PUT/ INVSTMT OTHER VOTING AUTHORITY
NAME OF ISSUER TITLE OF CLASS CUSIP (x$1000) PRN AMT PRN CALL DSCRETN MANAGERS SOLE SHARED NONE
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Fleetwood Cap CV PFD PFD CV 339072407 859 20400 SH SOLE 13400 13200
KMART CV PFD PFD CV 498778208 512 8750 SH SOLE 7250 1500
Nuevo Financing CP A PFD CV 670511203 257 8350 SH SOLE 5250 3100
USX CV PFD A PFD CV 902905819 1358 27750 SH SOLE 14550 18800
Western Gas CV PFD PFD CV 958259301 397 12300 SH SOLE 3800 8500
AGL Resources Inc. COM 001204106 1846 100100 SH SOLE 35700 77400
Abbott Laboratories COM 002824100 842 18560 SH SOLE 8000 10560
Allegheny Energy COM 017361106 1505 46950 SH SOLE 18450 37500
American Express COM 025816109 5404 41531 SH SOLE 15400 31131
American Home Prods. COM 026609107 292 5097 SH SOLE 5097
American Int'l Group COM 026874107 1813 15464 SH SOLE 5017 10447
American Tower Systems COM 029912201 1786 74400 SH SOLE 15700 58700
Andover Bancorp Inc. COM 034258103 599 19100 SH SOLE 3300 15800
Apache COM 037411105 2449 62800 SH SOLE 25300 49500
Automatic Data Proc COM 053015103 383 8700 SH SOLE 8700
AvalonBay REIT COM 053484101 2597 70191 SH SOLE 23816 53289
BP Amoco PLC ADR COM 055622104 558 5143 SH SOLE 2697 2446
BellSouth COM 079860102 382 8292 SH SOLE 2000 6292
Berkshire Hathaway CL B COM 084670207 775 346 SH SOLE 42 304
Boston Properties COM 101121101 714 19900 SH SOLE 7000 18900
Cabot Corp COM 127055101 1673 69150 SH SOLE 25500 52650
Carter Wallace COM 146285101 1069 58800 SH SOLE 21400 37400
Chase Manhattan COM 16161A108 1886 21800 SH SOLE 13700 12300
Chateau Communities COM 161726104 1701 56818 SH SOLE 21300 43518
Chevron COM 166751107 277 2910 SH SOLE 800 2110
Cintas Corp COM 172908105 571 8500 SH SOLE 8500
Circuit City Stores COM 172737108 293 3150 SH SOLE 1000 2150
Cisco Systems COM 17275R102 549 8520 SH SOLE 1900 6620
Clear Channel COM 184502102 786 11400 SH SOLE 1600 9800
Comcast CL A COM 200300101 621 17350 SH SOLE 3800 13550
Comcast CL A SPL COM 200300200 690 17950 SH SOLE 3800 14150
Connecticut Energy COM 207567108 713 18500 SH SOLE 1700 16800
Constellation Energy Group COM 210371100 259 8750 SH SOLE 1500 7250
Cox Communications COM 224044107 1430 38850 SH SOLE 10000 28850
Deere & Co. COM 244199105 415 10600 SH SOLE 7000 8600
DuPont COM 263534109 2514 36800 SH SOLE 5000 31800
Duke-Weeks Realty COM 264411505 1132 50150 SH SOLE 25350 33800
Dun & Bradstreet Corp. COM 26483B106 2233 63022 SH SOLE 26500 45822
EMC Corp. COM 268648102 236 4300 SH SOLE 1000 3300
Enron Oil & Gas Co. COM 293562104 2238 110500 SH SOLE 38100 84400
Exxon Corp. COM 302290101 505 6544 SH SOLE 6544
Ford Motor COM 345370100 2505 44388 SH SOLE 17000 34288
Furniture Brands COM 360921100 1494 53600 SH SOLE 17200 45400
GTE Corp. COM 362320103 904 11978 SH SOLE 1500 10478
General Electric COM 369604103 4375 38719 SH SOLE 14800 23919
General Mills COM 370334104 805 10012 SH SOLE 2453 7559
Grainger W.W. COM 384802104 202 3760 SH SOLE 3760
HSB Group Inc. COM 40428N109 673 16350 SH SOLE 7800 8550
Halliburton Co. COM 406216101 2167 47900 SH SOLE 22900 34000
Haverty Furniture COM 419596101 3306 93800 SH SOLE 37500 70300
Hewlett-Packard COM 428236103 3102 30870 SH SOLE 13700 21170
Home Depot Inc. COM 437076102 1822 28270 SH SOLE 6300 21970
Illinois Tool Works COM 452308109 245 3000 SH SOLE 3000
Int'l Bus Machines COM 459200101 376 2912 SH SOLE 2912
Intel COM 458140100 560 9404 SH SOLE 1000 8404
Johnson & Johnson COM 478160104 1069 10910 SH SOLE 4500 6410
KN Energy Inc. COM 482620101 756 56500 SH SOLE 19650 43600
Kimball Intl CL B COM 494274103 194 11500 SH SOLE 4000 7500
Kimberly-Clark COM 494368103 2214 38850 SH SOLE 14000 29850
Laclede Gas Co. COM 505588103 660 28400 SH SOLE 18000 22400
Lafarge COM 505862102 2247 63400 SH SOLE 29600 45800
Mallinckrodt, Inc. COM 561232109 2086 57350 SH SOLE 20500 43850
Mark IV COM 570387100 744 35200 SH SOLE 14800 20400
Massbank COM 576152102 669 17832 SH SOLE 4333 13499
Merck & Co. COM 589331107 2256 30645 SH SOLE 10420 20225
Microsoft COM 594918104 2016 22355 SH SOLE 4000 18355
Mitchell Energy & Dev B COM 606592301 1316 71600 SH SOLE 23800 62800
Motorola COM 620076109 284 3000 SH SOLE 3000
Noble Affiliates COM 654894104 485 17200 SH SOLE 6700 10500
Nthwest Natural Gas COM 667655104 1903 78875 SH SOLE 24400 64475
Ocean Energy Inc. COM 67481E106 635 66020 SH SOLE 19080 46940
Paychex Inc COM 704326107 947 29725 SH SOLE 2625 27100
Pfizer Inc. COM 717081103 1278 11724 SH SOLE 4824 6900
Regions Financial COM 758940100 3316 86260 SH SOLE 31270 70290
Rouge Industries CL A COM 779088103 195 20000 SH SOLE 20000 13000
SBC Communications COM 78387G103 301 5184 SH SOLE 5184
SCANA Corp COM 805898103 1706 73000 SH SOLE 22800 59200
Santa Fe Snyder Corp. COM 80218K105 1698 212270 SH SOLE 60000 152270
Schering Plough COM 806605101 224 4262 SH SOLE 4262
Schlumberger Ltd COM 806857108 863 13550 SH SOLE 3000 10550
Sysco COM 871829107 794 26627 SH SOLE 4000 22627
TCF Financial COM 872275102 223 8000 SH SOLE 3000 5000
Time Warner COM 887315109 404 5560 SH SOLE 1560 4000
Travelers PPTY COM 893939108 1246 31850 SH SOLE 4750 27100
Warner Lambert Co. COM 934488107 291 4212 SH SOLE 3612 600
Williams-Sonoma COM 969904101 390 11200 SH SOLE 4000 7200
Yankee Energy COM 984779108 2981 75100 SH SOLE 25500 59600
Berkshire Hathaway CL B COM 084670207 1929 861 SH SOLE 861
Int'l Business Mach COM 459200101 1856 14358 SH SOLE 14358
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