The year-ago 12 months also included a charge of $2,913,000 related to the bankruptcy of a customer.

Those discontinued operations added $16 million to sales in the 1989 quarter and $50 million to the year-ago 9 months.

The year-ago 9 months' net from operations included a pre-tax gain on security sales of $426,000.

For the year-ago 6 months, net income was $497,459, or 13 cents a share, on sales of $4,900,742.

The year-ago 9 months included a gain of $35.1 million, or 87 cents a share, from accounting changes.

Statistics Canada reported this week that growth advanced 1.7 percent in October over the year-ago month.

Share earnings for the year-ago 9 months was not available; the company converted to stock form of ownership in April 1987.

The year-ago 9 months' net is after a provision for possible credit losses of $1,317,000,000.

Preferred dividend requirements exceeded net income in the year-ago 9 months.

Results for the year-ago 6 months include a gain of $138,000 from an accounting change for pension benefits.