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                                                                    EXHIBIT 3(a)

     At the Company's Annual Meeting of Shareholders held on Friday, April 24,
1998, the first paragraph of Article Fourth of the Company's Articles of
Incorporation was amended to read as follows:

     "FOURTH: The total number of shares of all classes of stock which the
     Corporation shall have authority to issue is One Hundred Million Five
     Hundred Thousand (100,500,000) of which (a) Five Hundred Thousand (500,000)
     shall be Preference Stock of the par value $1 per share, issuable in
     series, and (b) One Hundred Million (100,000,000) shall be Common Stock of
     the par value of $1 per share."

     The results of the vote for the ratification of this amendment were
30,052,928 votes for, 1,488,538 votes against, and 90,528 votes abstaining.