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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 706 20400 SH SOLE 13400 13200
KMART CV PFD PFD CV 498778208 383 8750 SH SOLE 7250 1500
Nuevo Financing CV PFD A PFD CV 670511203 274 10050 SH SOLE 6150 3900
USX CV PFD A PFD CV 902905819 1207 27750 SH SOLE 14550 18800
Western Gas CV PFD PFD CV 958259301 768 28700 SH SOLE 16700 20000
AGL Resources Inc. COM 001204106 1725 101500 SH SOLE 33200 81300
Abbott Laboratories COM 002824100 694 19100 SH SOLE 8000 11100
Allegheny Energy COM 017361106 1017 37750 SH SOLE 9450 28300
American Express COM 025816109 6273 37731 SH SOLE 12900 28331
American Home Prods. COM 026609107 200 5097 SH SOLE 5097
American Int'l Group COM 026874107 2182 20180 SH SOLE 6271 13909
American Tower Systems COM 029912201 2708 88600 SH SOLE 23000 65600
Analog Devices COM 032654105 434 4666 SH SOLE 4666
Andover Bancorp Inc. COM 034258103 560 20000 SH SOLE 4200 15800
Apache COM 037411105 2131 57700 SH SOLE 21800 45900
Automatic Data Proc COM 053015103 469 8700 SH SOLE 8700
AvalonBay REIT COM 053484101 2507 72405 SH SOLE 25016 54303
BP Amoco PLC ADR COM 055622104 610 10286 SH SOLE 5394 4892
BellSouth COM 079860102 459 9804 SH SOLE 2000 7804
Beringer Wine Estates COM 084102102 710 17800 SH SOLE 10000 7800
Berkshire Hathaway CL B COM 084670207 384 210 SH SOLE 42 168
BestFoods COM 08658U101 210 4000 SH SOLE 4000
Boston Properties COM 101121101 685 22000 SH SOLE 7700 20300
Cabot Corp COM 127055101 1495 73350 SH SOLE 28000 54350
Carter Wallace COM 146285101 947 52800 SH SOLE 21400 31400
Chase Manhattan COM 16161A108 1655 21300 SH SOLE 13700 11800
Chateau Communities COM 161726104 1513 58339 SH SOLE 22300 44039
Chevron COM 166751107 243 2810 SH SOLE 800 2010
Cintas Corp COM 172908105 677 12750 SH SOLE 12750
Circuit City Stores COM 172737108 284 6300 SH SOLE 2000 4300
Cisco Systems COM 17275R102 891 8320 SH SOLE 1900 6420
Citigroup COM 172967101 215 3852 SH SOLE 2700 1152
Clear Channel COM 184502102 1017 11400 SH SOLE 1600 9800
Comcast CL A COM 200300101 845 17650 SH SOLE 3800 13850
Comcast CL A SPL COM 200300200 908 17950 SH SOLE 3800 14150
Connecticut Energy COM 207567108 638 16400 SH SOLE 1700 14700
Constellation Energy Group COM 210371100 254 8750 SH SOLE 1500 7250
Cox Communications COM 224044107 2029 39400 SH SOLE 10000 29400
Crown Castle Int'l COM 228227104 2059 64100 SH SOLE 18900 45200
Diebold Inc. COM 253651103 352 15000 SH SOLE 13100 1900
DuPont COM 263534109 2419 36720 SH SOLE 5000 31720
Duke-Weeks Realty COM 264411505 1292 66250 SH SOLE 27150 48100
Dun & Bradstreet Corp. COM 26483B106 1664 56400 SH SOLE 21200 44500
EMC Corp. COM 268648102 579 5300 SH SOLE 1400 3900
EOG Resources, Inc. COM 26875P101 1951 111100 SH SOLE 38100 85000
Exxon Mobil COM 30231G102 665 8260 SH SOLE 8260
Ford Motor COM 345370100 2366 44388 SH SOLE 17000 34288
Furniture Brands COM 360921100 1901 86400 SH SOLE 33600 61800
GTE Corp. COM 362320103 902 12778 SH SOLE 1500 11278
General Electric COM 369604103 5917 38239 SH SOLE 14600 23639
General Mills COM 370334104 716 20024 SH SOLE 4906 15118
HSB Group Inc. COM 40428N109 536 15850 SH SOLE 7300 8550
Halliburton Co. COM 406216101 1932 48000 SH SOLE 23000 33000
Haverty Furniture COM 419596101 2545 201600 SH SOLE 77700 145900
Hewlett-Packard COM 428236103 3602 31670 SH SOLE 14000 21670
Home Depot Inc. COM 437076102 2946 42855 SH SOLE 9450 33405
Illinois Tool Works COM 452308109 203 3000 SH SOLE 3000
Int'l Bus Machines COM 459200101 368 3412 SH SOLE 3412
Intel COM 458140100 819 9944 SH SOLE 1400 8544
Johnson & Johnson COM 478160104 1007 10804 SH SOLE 4500 6304
Keyspan Corp. COM 49337W100 646 27850 SH SOLE 10300 27050
Kimberly-Clark COM 494368103 2739 41850 SH SOLE 14400 32450
Laclede Gas Co. COM 505588103 729 33700 SH SOLE 22000 23700
Lafarge COM 505862102 1768 64000 SH SOLE 30200 45800
Mallinckrodt, Inc. COM 561232109 1809 56850 SH SOLE 20400 43450
Massbank COM 576152102 526 17832 SH SOLE 4333 13499
Merck & Co. COM 589331107 2062 30687 SH SOLE 10720 19967
Microsoft COM 594918104 2560 21930 SH SOLE 4000 17930
Mitchell Energy & Dev B COM 606592301 1544 71600 SH SOLE 23800 62800
Motorola COM 620076109 294 2000 SH SOLE 2000
Nthwest Natural Gas COM 667655104 1717 78275 SH SOLE 24400 63875
Ocean Energy Inc. COM 67481E106 365 47070 SH SOLE 13780 33290
Paychex Inc COM 704326107 1187 29675 SH SOLE 2625 27050
Pfizer Inc. COM 717081103 1212 37372 SH SOLE 14472 22900
Questar Corp. COM 748356102 1654 110300 SH SOLE 34100 90200
Regions Financial COM 758940100 2182 86860 SH SOLE 31870 70290
SBC Communications COM 78387G103 394 8086 SH SOLE 8086
SCANA Corp COM 805898103 1827 68000 SH SOLE 22800 54200
Santa Fe Snyder Corp. COM 80218K105 1886 235705 SH SOLE 65500 170205
Schlumberger Ltd COM 806857108 811 14450 SH SOLE 3400 11050
Sun Microsystems COM 866810104 245 3160 SH SOLE 3160
Sysco COM 871829107 962 24322 SH SOLE 4000 20322
The Allstate Corp. COM 020002101 929 38600 SH SOLE 16300 29300
Time Warner COM 887315109 402 5560 SH SOLE 1560 4000
Travelers PPTY COM 893939108 906 26450 SH SOLE 2350 24100
Warner Lambert Co. COM 934488107 222 2712 SH SOLE 2112 600
Washington Gas LT COM 938837101 426 15500 SH SOLE 10000 15500
Yankee Energy COM 984779108 1415 32200 SH SOLE 1000 31200
Int'l Business Mach COM 459200101 1549 14358 SH SOLE 14358
Warren Bancorp Inc. COM 934710104 345 46000 SH SOLE 46000
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