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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 711 20400 SH SOLE 13400 13200
KMART CV PFD PFD CV 498778208 417 8750 SH SOLE 7250 1500
Nuevo Financing CV PFD A PFD CV 670511203 265 9150 SH SOLE 5250 3900
USX CV PFD A PFD CV 902905819 1230 27750 SH SOLE 14550 18800
Western Gas CV PFD PFD CV 958259301 992 28700 SH SOLE 16700 20000
AGL Resources Inc. COM 001204106 1649 101500 SH SOLE 33200 81300
Abbott Laboratories COM 002824100 701 19100 SH SOLE 8000 11100
Allegheny Energy COM 017361106 1168 36650 SH SOLE 9450 27200
American Express COM 025816109 5323 39431 SH SOLE 13300 29631
American Home Prods. COM 026609107 212 5097 SH SOLE 5097
American Int'l Group COM 026874107 1745 20074 SH SOLE 6271 13803
American Tower Systems COM 029912201 1692 86200 SH SOLE 21700 64500
Analog Devices COM 032654105 239 4666 SH SOLE 4666
Andover Bancorp Inc. COM 034258103 601 20000 SH SOLE 4200 15800
Apache COM 037411105 2492 57700 SH SOLE 21800 45900
Automatic Data Proc COM 053015103 388 8700 SH SOLE 8700
AvalonBay REIT COM 053484101 2413 71237 SH SOLE 25016 53135
BP Amoco PLC ADR COM 055622104 570 5143 SH SOLE 2697 2446
BellSouth COM 079860102 373 8292 SH SOLE 2000 6292
Beringer Wine Estates COM 084102102 731 17800 SH SOLE 10000 7800
Berkshire Hathaway CL B COM 084670207 390 210 SH SOLE 42 168
Boston Properties COM 101121101 611 19900 SH SOLE 7000 18900
Cabot Corp COM 127055101 1709 71950 SH SOLE 27500 53450
Carter Wallace COM 146285101 944 52800 SH SOLE 21400 31400
Chase Manhattan COM 16161A108 1643 21800 SH SOLE 13700 12300
Chateau Communities COM 161726104 1503 57818 SH SOLE 22300 43518
Chevron COM 166751107 258 2910 SH SOLE 800 2110
Cintas Corp COM 172908105 549 9500 SH SOLE 9500
Circuit City Stores COM 172737108 266 6300 SH SOLE 2000 4300
Cisco Systems COM 17275R102 584 8520 SH SOLE 1900 6620
Clear Channel COM 184502102 911 11400 SH SOLE 1600 9800
Comcast CL A COM 200300101 626 17350 SH SOLE 3800 13550
Comcast CL A SPL COM 200300200 716 17950 SH SOLE 3800 14150
Connecticut Energy COM 207567108 716 18500 SH SOLE 1700 16800
Constellation Energy Group COM 210371100 246 8750 SH SOLE 1500 7250
Cox Communications COM 224044107 1676 40150 SH SOLE 10000 30150
DuPont COM 263534109 2226 36800 SH SOLE 5000 31800
Duke-Weeks Realty COM 264411505 1257 64450 SH SOLE 27150 46300
Dun & Bradstreet Corp. COM 26483B106 1685 56400 SH SOLE 21200 44500
EMC Corp. COM 268648102 378 5300 SH SOLE 1400 3900
EOG Resources, Inc. COM 26875P101 2361 111100 SH SOLE 38100 85000
Exxon Corp. COM 302290101 497 6544 SH SOLE 6544
Ford Motor COM 345370100 2230 44388 SH SOLE 17000 34288
Furniture Brands COM 360921100 1662 84400 SH SOLE 33600 59800
GTE Corp. COM 362320103 952 12378 SH SOLE 1500 10878
General Electric COM 369604103 4602 38819 SH SOLE 14800 24019
General Mills COM 370334104 812 10012 SH SOLE 2453 7559
HSB Group Inc. COM 40428N109 558 15850 SH SOLE 7300 8550
Halliburton Co. COM 406216101 1923 46900 SH SOLE 21900 33000
Haverty Furniture COM 419596101 2633 181600 SH SOLE 69000 134600
Hewlett-Packard COM 428236103 2860 31520 SH SOLE 13700 21820
Home Depot Inc. COM 437076102 1971 28720 SH SOLE 6300 22420
Illinois Tool Works COM 452308109 224 3000 SH SOLE 3000
Int'l Bus Machines COM 459200101 401 3312 SH SOLE 3312
Intel COM 458140100 735 9894 SH SOLE 1400 8494
Johnson & Johnson COM 478160104 1002 10910 SH SOLE 4500 6410
Keyspan Corp. COM 49337W100 797 27850 SH SOLE 10300 27050
Kimberly-Clark COM 494368103 2234 42350 SH SOLE 14400 32950
Laclede Gas Co. COM 505588103 767 33700 SH SOLE 22000 23700
Lafarge COM 505862102 2048 64000 SH SOLE 30200 45800
Mallinckrodt, Inc. COM 561232109 1764 58450 SH SOLE 21200 44250
Mark IV COM 570387100 695 35200 SH SOLE 14800 20400
Massbank COM 576152102 636 17832 SH SOLE 4333 13499
Merck & Co. COM 589331107 2016 31105 SH SOLE 10720 20385
Microsoft COM 594918104 2025 22355 SH SOLE 4000 18355
Mitchell Energy & Dev B COM 606592301 1683 71600 SH SOLE 23800 62800
Nthwest Natural Gas COM 667655104 2036 78875 SH SOLE 24400 64475
Ocean Energy Inc. COM 67481E106 619 60720 SH SOLE 13780 46940
Paychex Inc COM 704326107 1023 29975 SH SOLE 2625 27350
Pfizer Inc. COM 717081103 1337 37272 SH SOLE 14472 22800
Questar Corp. COM 748356102 1794 99000 SH SOLE 30100 80900
Regions Financial COM 758940100 2606 86860 SH SOLE 31870 70290
SBC Communications COM 78387G103 265 5184 SH SOLE 5184
SCANA Corp COM 805898103 1819 75200 SH SOLE 24200 60000
Santa Fe Snyder Corp. COM 80218K105 2099 233205 SH SOLE 63000 170205
Schlumberger Ltd COM 806857108 882 14150 SH SOLE 3400 10750
Sysco COM 871829107 853 24322 SH SOLE 4000 20322
The Allstate Corp. COM 020002101 1217 48800 SH SOLE 19400 36400
Time Warner COM 887315109 338 5560 SH SOLE 1560 4000
Travelers PPTY COM 893939108 869 29450 SH SOLE 2350 27100
Tyco International COM 902124106 217 2097 SH SOLE 1178 919
Warner Lambert Co. COM 934488107 280 4212 SH SOLE 3612 600
Washington Gas LT COM 938837101 420 15500 SH SOLE 10000 15500
Yankee Energy COM 984779108 1528 35800 SH SOLE 3400 32400
Int'l Business Mach COM 459200101 1737 14358 SH SOLE 14358
Warren Bancorp Inc. COM 934710104 414 46000 SH SOLE 46000
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