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Equity
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Equity  
Stockholders' Equity Note Disclosure [Text Block]

Note 3:  Capital Stock

 

Preferred Stock and Common Stock – The Company’s Board of Directors is expressly granted the authority to issue, without stockholder action, the authorized shares of the Company’s preferred and common stock.  The Board of Directors may issue shares and determine the powers, preferences, limitations, and relative rights of any class of shares before the issuance thereof.

 

Preferred Stock – The Company has authorized 5,000,000 shares of Preferred Stock, par value $.01 per share.  The authorization to issue 162,857 shares of Series B Cumulative Preferred Stock was given on March 7, 1988, and 162,857 shares were issued June 21, 1990.  Under the rights, preferences and privileges of the Series B Preferred Stock, the shares are non-voting, non-convertible, accrue $.60 per share per year dividends as declared by the board of directors, $10.00 per share liquidation preference over common stock, and can be redeemed by the Company for $10.00 per share.  The Company never declared dividends for the shareholders of the Series B Cumulative Preferred shares.  The Company redeemed 20,000 shares in January 1997 and the remaining 142,857 shares were redeemed on April 20, 2011, for $5,000.  As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, there were zero and 142,857 shares outstanding, respectively.

 

Series E Preferred Stock was authorized October 2006 for up to 1,000,000 shares.  Under the rights, preferences and privileges of the Series E Preferred Stock, the holders of the preferred stock receive a 10 to 1 voting preference over common stock.  Accordingly, for every share of Series E Preferred Stock held, the holder received the voting rights equal to 10 shares of common stock.  The Series E preferred Stock is not convertible into any other class of stock of the Company and has no preference to dividends or liquidation rights.  As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, there were 1,000,000 Series E Preferred shares outstanding.

 

Common Stock – The Company has authorized 21,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $.01 per share, of which 1,000,000 shares shall be designated as Non-voting Common Stock, par value $.01 per share.  As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, there were 7,047,098 shares of voting common stock outstanding.