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Note I - Related Party Transactions
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2012
Related Party Transactions Disclosure [Text Block]
NOTE I - RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

For the year ended December 31, 2012, the Company made no payments to Henry Globus, a former officer and director of the Company who passed away in December 2011, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2011 in which the Company paid him $22,296. The payments were for consulting services in accordance with his employment termination agreement of 1988.

                During each of the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011 the Company paid to Bonamassa, Maietta, and Cartelli, LLP, $13,000, and $11,000, respectively, for accounting and tax services. Lawrence Maietta, a partner in Bonamassa, Maietta, and Cartelli, LLP, is a director of the Company.

During the first quarter of 2011 the Company sold one of its vehicles, with a book value of $20,407, to one of its Vice Presidents for $15,154 (the vehicle's fair market value) as part of his severance package.  As a result, the Company recognized a non-cash loss of $5,253.

During the fourth quarter of 2012 the President of the Company, Kenneth H. Globus, was reimbursed $24,408 and in the third quarter of 2011 he was reimbursed $11,406 for the value of the trade-in of personal vehicles that were used to purchase two Company vehicles.