FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                       99-67

Commissioner Isaac C. Hunt, Jr. To Speak at SEC Small Business 
              Town Hall Meeting in Kansas City, MO

     Washington, DC, June 21, 1999 -- The Commission today
announced that Commissioner Isaac C. Hunt, Jr. will be the
featured speaker at the next small business town hall meeting,
which will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, June 30, 1999 at
the University of Missouri-Kansas City Pierson Auditorium at 5000
Holmes Road, Kansas City, Missouri.  Arthur Levitt, Chairman of
the SEC, had been scheduled to speak.  Brian Lane, Director of
the Division of Corporation Finance, will be the other SEC
speaker of the Kansas City Small Business Town Hall Meeting,
which is being co-sponsored by the Greater Kansas City Chamber of
Commerce, the University of Missouri-Kansas City Bloch School of
Business and Public Administration, and the Kansas Technology
Enterprise Corporation.  For additional information regarding the
town hall meeting, including a list of other speakers, please see
SEC Press Release 99-59 (June 2, 1999).

     Please contact Barbara Jacobs in the Office of Small
Business of the Division of Corporation Finance, at (202) 942-
2950 for further information.  Or, please send an e-mail message
to the small business electronic mailbox at

e-prospectus@sec.gov

       There is no charge for the town hall meeting; however, we
encourage you to make reservations by contacting the UMKC Central
Ticket Office at (816) 235-2700 or 800-735-2966 (TT) for Missouri
Relay.  Alternatively, you may fax your reservation to (816) 235-
2704.

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