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Metro Local News Editorials Obituaries Cfer ClarioivLeDger 1 B-Tuesday, June 10, 1980 0 Box 40 Jackson. Ms 392051 Common Market spokesman says U.S. power fading Che ClariomLrogerl uurite fiction both a recession and an election campaign. "A month ago I would have told you Carter will hold the line on inflation right up to the election. We're really puzzled now," Gaillard said.

Europeans initially welcomed a U.S. recession as a remedy for inflation. But a long U.S. recession could be a blow to the Common Market countries' economies, since about 13 percent of their exports go to the United States. Problems in most of the countries in the Common Market are generally not as severe as those in America but there is reason for their leaders to have some empathy.

In a democracy, election year politics can quickly convert devoted conservatives into liberal spenders when the unemployment rate starts rising. Election pressures are also being felt in Germany and France. In both countries, politicians are facing rising unemployment and high inflation with elections in sight. Most of the U.S. surplus was due to farm products, such as the soybeans exported by Mississippi.

A growing trade deficit would cause serious economic problems for U.S. trading partners, and force them to cut imports to avoid building up a dangerously large trade deficit, he said. Gaillard said a country unable to balance its imports ends up exporting its money to outsiders. Since that country is unable to sell its own products to outsiders, the outsiders try to turn that money into a form of currency that will buy them the goods they want. Ultimately, an excessive trade deficit results in devaluation of a country's currency, since too much money ends up chasing after too few goods, he said.

Members of the European Community share the related problems of rising inflation and slowing economic Europeans are keeping an apprehensive eye this year on the United States as it encounters trolled by Europeans, giving them a strong voice in how the United States handles its monetary policies. Allegations of speculation on the currency markets and dumping of steel at below production cost have caused resentment and calls for limits on imports. The federal government has already taken sanctions against European steel producers for "dumping steel" selling it on the U.S. market at below the cost of production. Gaillard warned that moves to "protect" U.S.

companies by hampering imports will ultimately lead to reprisals by European countries. "We want to tell America, 'don't be tempted by protectionism'," Gaillard said. "It will hurt both sides." He said Japan was primarily to blame for U.S. trade deficits, however, and noted that countries in the European Community imported $8.3 billion more than they exported to the United States last year. By STEPHEN RASSENFOSS Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer Americans have to realize the United States is no longer the center of the economic universe, a spokesman for the European Economic Community, commonly known as the Common Market, said in Jackson Monday.

Mississippi's exports have grown with $1 billion in farm exports going to the Common Market in the last year and European economic concerns are fast becoming important here. The growing power of this nation's European trading partners have ended the days when the United States could dictate international economic policy, said William Gaillard during an interview Monday. "We're dealing now with a partnership," he said. Europeans have gained a firm grasp on America's wallet. One-third of the dollar reserves are con twill spill ill! Biff! -N 4 Write Action answers questions and checks out valid complaints on a wide variety of consumer matters.

Write Action also cuts through government red tape. If you feel you have been victimized or have a question regarding any of these areas, please write Write Action, The Clarion-Ledger, P.O. Box 40, Jackson, 39205. Be sure to include the names and addresses of any companies you write about and any documentation. We also need your name and address which will be kept confidential.

Write Action does not shop for readers. Q. I am writing to see if you can help with a termite company. My husband paid $125 about 12 years ago for termite protection with Mississippi Termite Control. The contract we signed stated we would have the house inspected once a year.

It also stipulated that the company would be liable for any termite damage that occurs. 1 have paid the yearly $36 premium on our contract since my husband died. I paid it last year, but did not see anyone inspect my home. I have written the company in Louisville, but no one has responded, and I'm getting worried. The next payment is due in July, but I want someone to check my home before I put any more money into this.

Can you help? A.L.M., Carthage. A. Your home was inspected in October, according to Mississippi Termite Control, but the company is going to be in the area in a few weeks and will inspect your home again. Owner Eugene Bowlin told Write tAction the company has not forgotten about you, but the reason you probably didn't receive a response to your letters is because Mississippi Termite Control doesn't have a representative in Louisville anymore. He said cause your area is now inspected by personnel in Jackson, the company usually waits until several homes in an area need inspection before making the trip.

Q. I hope you can help me with another Timex watch repair problem. I purchased a Timex in July for my daughter, and when it stopped running in November or December we sent it to the service center in Little Rock, Ark. I had already spent $146 on postage for returning it, when I got a note from Timex stating I needed to send $5.97 to have the watch repaired. The watch was under the one-year war ft' Af-swM'W J-JLhI 1 by Kdy MOMVON h.uw on tin- bark i( a mux livrani llir Wallim-d Imiw a.ld.

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said the savings to companies, which often amount to millions of dollars over the life of the bonds, vary depending on the interest rate at the time the bonds are sold. Should the company default on the bonds, however, the municipality that issued the bonds is not held liable, Ross said. Although Frito-Lay officials could not readily provide a proposed construction schedule or the number of jobs that might be created, the project involves an expansion of its existing plant at 1325 Boling St, by 70,000 square feet. Furthermore, Frito-Lay plans to build two separate buildings with a total of more than 40,000 square feet to house a potato warehouse and a truck repair facility. In other action, the City Council will consider a request by Elbert P.

Farmer for permits to operate 22 cabs in Jackson. At present, Farmer's Independent Cab which began service in November, operates only three cabs. Frito-Lay Inc. has planned a major expansion of its Jackson facilities to be financed by $13 million in tax-free industrial development revenue bonds expected to be issued by the city. The Jackson City Council is scheduled to officially accept an order by the state Board of Economic Development approving issuance of the bonds at a 10 a.m.

meeting today. Such approval is required before the city may issue bonds. The bond package is the largest single amount issued for any one company since Jackson started dealing with industrial development revenue bonds in 1963. City records show that $19.3 million has been issued by the city to date for 11 companies to finance industrial development projects. Jackson officials, under state law, can issue bonds for a company planning to locate or expand their facility in the city Since the interest on municipal bonds is tax-exempt, the procedure acts as an incentive for industries to locate ranty.

I wrote a letter to Timex stating my position, because I really don't feel this is right. If this policy were to continue, I think Timex should reword its warranty to state "Buyer must pay $9 or $10 for any repair work done within one year from purchase date." I would appreciate your help in receiving my repaired watch without paying this extra $5.97. S.M., Jackson. A. You said the watch was repaired and returned in good condition in early June, about two weeks after Write Action forwarded your letter to Timex Corp.

Consumer correspondent Letha Watkins acknowledged that your watch was under warranty and apologized for your trouble. The charge was dropped and you said everything was fine. Q. I would like your help in receiving a table I ordered in February from the Helen Gallagher Collection in Peoria, 111. I sent my $64.19 check, which covered the cost of the table and shipping charges, but I haven't received notification of my order, nor a note explaining the delay.

Ill appreciate anything you can find out for me on this. J.D.B., Al Suck son Slate conicnnvc Police said the Belhaven students, both 19, were talking in their car in Riverside Park about 12:30 a.m. when the four men slipped a gun through the open car window and robbed the couple at gunpoint before kidnapping them. Richard Earl Levi, 20, of 1328 Perkins St.has pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping and sodomy and two counts of armed robbery. Willie D.

Odoms, 19, of 1960 Pleasant Ave. has pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping and two counts of armed robbery. The fourth suspect, Donald Ray Ca-vetter, 17, of 133 Convent St. was charged with of one count of kidnapping and two counts of armed robbery, but a Hinds County trial date has not been set. The four pleaded guilty and were sentenced in Madison County Circuit Court in May on separate rape and armed robbery charges resulting from the same late-night assault incident.

Jefferson and Cavetter were each sentenced to 45-year prison terms on the rape charges against them and concurrent 25-year terms on the armed robbery charges. Levi and Odoms each received 44-year sentences on the rape charges and concurrent 25-year sentences on the armed robbery charges. By ANNE Q. HOY Clarion-Udger Staff Writer A 17-year-old Jackson man, who already faces a 45-year sentence in connection with the armed robbery of two Belhaven College students and rape of one of them, Monday pleaded guilty in Hinds County Circuit Court to kidnapping and robbery charges in the same incident. Hinds County Circuit Court Judge William F.

Coleman Monday deferred sentencing Richard Allen Jefferson of 923 Quinn St. on the two armed robbery charges and one kidnapping charge until an investigation of the youth's background is complete. Jefferson pleaded guilty to rape and armed robbery charges in May in Madison County Circuit Court and was sentenced to 45 years imprisonment. Jefferson faces a maximum life imprisonment sentence in Hinds County Circuit Court on each of the armed robbery charges and a maximum 30-year sentence on the kidnapping charge. Two other men involved in the Feb.

20 assault incident await sentencing. Another suspect is awaiting a trial. The four were arrested and charged with forcing a Belhaven College couple to get into their vehicle, and drive to Madison County, where they raped the female college student. Handicapped strategies being set Man sentenced to life for rape ceive a stipend of about $4,000 a year for tuition which is also appropriated by Congress. "We're trying to get a stipend for part-time students instead of just full-time students in the rehabilitation field," said Alfred Miller, executive director of the Federal Employment and Guidance Service in New York.

"That way more people can enter the program." "When I was working with the handicapped, we had a boy who was in an institution because he was a mute," Williams said. "One day someone said something in Spanish and the patient perked up and began talking. If we had had a Spanish-speaking counselor, he wouldn't have had to spend all that time in the institution," he said. "People respond better to someone they can relate to." Miller says every dollar that is invested in a rehabilitated person is repaid to the government when that person begins working and paying "They want to work," said Miller. "To me that is a dollar well spent." training of non-whites in the area of vocational rehabilitation counseling.

So far, 41 students have graduated from the rehabilitation program. The conference, one otticial said, is "trying to identify strategies to deal with problems of recruitment and retention" of workers in the rehabilitation counseling field. Congress appropriates $945 million a year to vocational and rehabilitation services. Of this, $30 million is set aside to train individuals in counseling. "Billions of dollars are being expended," said Henry Williams, a member of the National Council on the Handicapped.

"More of the money should be spent in (counselor) training." There are 88 rehabilitation counselors in Mississippi operating 25 rehabilitation facilities. These facilities receive approximately $13 million a year appropriated through Congress, said Darwin Johnson, director of rehabilitation counseling services at Jackson State. Students obtaining their master's degrees in rehabilitation at JSU re By TAMMIE CESSNA Clarion-Ledger Staff Writer Although 25 percent of handicapped persons in vocational rehabilitation programs are non-white, only about 4 percent of the counselors administering services in those programs are non-white, a federal government official said Monday during a conference at Jackson State University. Vernon Hawkins of the Vocational Rehabilitation Services Administration said the three-day conference, set to end today, was scheduled to determine strategies to increase the number of non-white counselors. The National Association of Non-White Rehabilitation Workers Inc.

is trying to get congressional passage of a proposal to ensure a national em-' ployment and training program for non-white individuals in the vocational rehabilitation counseling field. The conference is being held at Jackson State because it is the only university in the nation that meets the requirement of the proposal calling for non-white educators and students. JSU offers a master's degree in the Brandon A. The Helen Gallagher Collection has been discontinued, but you got your $64.19 refund. Write Action wrote the company May 8 and you received a note requesting a copy of your canceled check.

You sent that May 23, and the refund arrived June 3. Q. I received a copy of The Upper Room album of Martin Luther King Jr. speeches in January. I was not satisified with it, and returned it that month for a $7.97 refund.

I haven't heard anything from the company, and I would appreciate your help in getting my money back. The only address I have is the Atlanta post office box advertised on television. R.W., Jackson A. Write Action sent a letter April 12 to the Atlanta address, and you got 'your $7-97 aDut a montn later- We got a note in late April from Advertising Co. Inc.

of New York, the company that serviced the offer, stating the money was on the way, and you said it arrived in she returned to her mobile home after work about 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 27 and was overpowered by two men, b.th of whom raped her. In other court action, a 22-year-old Jackson woman, Debbie Wood, was sentenced to three years imprisonment and five years probation on armed robbery charges. Police said the woman had entered a Jackson convenience store on Nov.

1, 1979, and, armed with a hammer and a knife, forced the clerk to hand over $1,400 from the cash register. Hinds County Circuit Court Judge William F. Coleman Monday sentenced a 20-year-old Jackson man to life imprisonment in the rape of a 21-year-old woman in her mobile home on the outskirts of Jackson. Carl McAllister, 20, was found guilty of the Nov. 27, 1979, rape and burglary.

Another man, 19-year-old Freddie Lee Hunter is also charged with rape and burglary but no trial has been set for him. The victim testified Monday that.