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Idaho State Journal from Pocatello, Idaho • Page 7

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Workers Find Fourth Body In Grain Elevator Explosion 11' A i i n. ZILWAUKEE. Mich. A Rescue workers located a fourth body early today in the wake of an explosion tha't ripped through a 225-foot grain storage elevator, Saginaw County officials said. The blast on Thursday left 10 others injured.

One man remained missing. Officials believe he is dead and buried under a section of one of the silo's reinforced concrete walls which collapsed in the explosion. The cause of the blast at the grain storage complex, operated by Farm Bureau Services. was not known. However, grain dust in elevators sometimes explodes.

The force of ihe explosion threw pieces of concrete, some of them four feet long, as far as one quarter of a mile, observers reported. Saginaw County sheriff's deputies said rescue workers could see the body of Roger Homey buried under debris. They listed no home town or age for the dead man. Rescue workers said it could take the rest of the day to remove the body from the" wreck- YOUR MONEY'S WORTH New Order Rights By Sylvia Porter One week from Monday, Feb. 2, you, the consumer will gain significant new rights in the whole area of mail order goods and you will be protected for the first time against mail order firms that fail to ship you merchandise you have ordered.

This coming May 14, you will gain even more important new rights in the whole area of installment contracts and be protected for the first time against lenders who try to force you to pay for shoddy merchandise or for services which have gone out of business. But to benefit from these rights, you must know about them, use them! Thus, read and remember the following. Under the new Federal Trade Commission mail order rule, effective Feb. 2, mail order companies must: --Notify you, the customer within 30 days after receiving your order if there will be a delay in sending you the items requested and if they will be shipped within a certain time. --Inform you that you have me option of cancelling your order, if the delivery date can't be met.

If the firm does not hear from you, it may then assume that you have agreed to the delay-- but only for an additional 30 days. If the firm seeks another postponement of its delivery, you must give your consent in writing. --Send you a postage-paid card or some other free means of informing the firm that you want to cancel. --Refund your money, if you wish the refund after the initial 30-day delivery period has passed. If you've paid by cash.check or money order, the firm has seven days in which to return your payment.

If you've asked to be billed, the firm is allowed one billing cycle to credit your account. But be warned: this rule covers only mail order merchandise. It does not apply to such mail order services as photo finishing, nor does it include magazines, seeds, growing plants, such other serial, deliveries as book-of-the- month, record-of-the-month, etc. These types of offerings are covered under a previous FTC rule, which requires firms to deliver merchandise once you have ordered it. The new rule also does not apply to orders you may have placed on a C.O.D.

(collect on delivery) basis. Then, this coming May 14, a much more far-reaching FTC rule becomes effective, which will substantially limit a legal principle known as the "holder in due course" doctrine. Under this doctrine, a lending institution is relieved of the responsibility for the proper performance of goods and services you have purchased with their loans. The new rule all but puts an end to situations where a creditor can say to a buyer: "The seller's behavior is not my responsibility. You still must pay what you owe me." The holder-in-one-due-course doctrine made it possible.

for instance, for a Kentucky bank to require individuals who had paid hundreds of dollars to join a local health spa to continue their monthly payments, even though the spa had failed. The bank had bought up the installment contracts from the spa owner, was the holder in due course, and entitled to collect payments. Tales similar to this have been commonplace the nation over. But as of May 14: --You may assert any claims and defenses against a creditor as you may now assert against a seller. You may, for instance, stop payments to a creditor on a dishwasher that doesn't work, a car that turns out to be a lemon.

You may refuse to pay a financing institution for a set of encyclopedias that doesn't arrive, or sue for payment already made to a computer school that has gone out of business. --All consumer credit contracts must carry a statement informing you of these rights. As a result of this new rule, you no longer will bear the burden of a seller's wrongdoing-- and your lender will have to absorb the costs of unfair or fraudulent practices or take the seller to court and make him pay up. At last, the end is in sight for a shameful credit practice that has hurt all consumers. age and find the missing man among the rubble.

One of the survivors of the blast was trapped for 13 hours in the wreckage before rescuers could free him. Workers used cranes and a helicopter to help in the search for bodies and injured. One injured man was plucked to safety as he clung to the wreckage of a wall left standing after the blast. Three other workers walked away from the explosion with minor cuts. Larry i'ess, 24, of Linwood, was pinned for more than 13 hours in the debris of the wrecked structure while doctors and rescue workeis tried lo comfort and reassure him.

He was in shock after being removed from the rubble, suffering from the cold. The temperature was just three degrees above zero about the time he was freed. "He is buried under tons and tons of concrete," ambulance attendant John Malzahn, 24, said before Fess was freed. "All you can see is his head, his neck and one arm." "There were bodies all over the place and apparently they had been blown right through the walls and the windows," said Saginaw County sheriff's deputy John Dankert. "There were other people who had been knocked down walking around in a daze." The blast sent flames shooting CO feet into the air, witnesses said.

POCATELLO, IDAHO, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1976 'DAHO A-PAGE 7 Ford to Release Physical Results By KKAXCKS 1.KW1NK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON lAF While House aides say President Ford's new medical -epurl will be made public after his examination Saturday, although Ford's physician says such disclosure could overstep the Ixuu'ids of privacy and set a bad precedent for future presidents. Ford has urged other candidates (or the presidential nominations to also reveal their health records. But White House physician William Lukash said he feels "uncomfortable about the precedent" of releasing minute details of a patient's record in view of the traditional con- i i a a i relationship. "Exams'are really a private thins TM there's a certain dignity about one's physical exam," Lukash said in an interview Thursday, lie said the public may be entitled to have information about the ability of a president to perform his duties "but to lay out all the details that go with it is beyond the propriety of one's privacy." He suit) he doesn't see the need (or making public "trivial medical information" that does not reaily relate to the individual's ability to perform on the job. l.irkash indicated he would rather not report about such tilings as a case of hemorrhoids or blood pressure levels that might require treatment but not be of any significance in the general health of the patient or to disclose precise medicines being administered.

a lor example. recently did not make public the fact that Ford had a benign wart removed from tis eyelid. He said this was in the area of "medical trivia" and that if it had been perhaps a precursor of malignancy he would have disclosed that. He says that from his vantage point in the White House over the psst 10 years he feels there are enough checks and balances to keep tabs on the President's health. As long as a president's medical condition does not interfere with his work, Lukash says he feels it need not necessarily IK? made public.

Press Secretary Ron Nessen said Lukash has expressed his reservations on this subject going back to time that Mrs. Ford underwent breast cancel- surgery. '1 SELDOM BUMP MY HEAD'-Don Koehler, 50. of Chicago comes through the door of his office at a truck lift manufacturing company. Koehler, who is eight-feet-two, is listed in the Guiness Book of Records as the world's tallest living person.

Despite his height, Koehler says, "I seldom bump my head, I've developed a sixth sense." A bachelor, Koehler says he has never permitted himself to be exploited. (AP Wirephoto) Executive Type Salesman Nationally known corporation, leader in its field, is desirous of interviewing an executive type responsible individual. Excellent starting income with incentive payment plan. Should be married; good appearance and college background desirable. No travel.

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