The Morning Herald from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 2

2-THE MORNING HERALD, HAGERSTOWN, ML). Frtto), III I I Action Lint tolvn problwni, annmt quotient and up lor your rkphli. Call 733-5131 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Of Action HarsU- MaH, rtagtretown, Md. 21740.

Qlvt your Ml addwas and number No refund's due last November wa took our baby to Mine HopMns Hospital for lab tMti. We figured Blue Croee would per tor H. Well, we kept getting billa so finally decided to (end the hoepttal a check. We paid them $26 In March. lew later we found out Blue Croee had paid them the fame amount.

We wrote and aiked for a refund but the hoepltal never answered. We could ute the money. E.H., Smlthtburg. The $26 you paid was the clinic visit fee, a service not covered by Blue Cross. The $27 that Blue Cross paid the hospital covered the cost of lab tests.

Your total bill amounted to $53. You won't be getting any money back. Pendant's on the way On Jury 22 I ordered a pendant from American Consumer Inc. of Philadelphia. Since then I've written letters to the company and to the Better Business Bureau.

To date I haven't received a reply. If possible, I'd still like to get the Martlnsburg, W. Va. A pendant's on the way to you now. It had been shipped before, but was apparently lost in the mail.

A calculated reply I bought a Rapid Man calculator and It went bad within three months. I Immediately returned It to the company In Michigan for repairs. Since It was still under warranty I was surprised to get a letter from a calculator service asking for $15 to fix It. Now I gel a notice that Rapid Man has gone out of business, lent anyone honoring their Cascade. When Rapid Man went bankrupt earlier this year, Rapid Sales wholesale distributor, established a service center so consumers would have a place to have their Rapid Man products fixed: At first Rapid Sales honored the manufacturer's warranties, but it soon became expensive and they began charging for repairs.

Rapid Sales is located at 29249 Stephenson Highway, Madison Heights, Mich. 48071. The word i I placed a catalog order with ah Atlanta-based firm In mid-October. In the past I've always received the merchandise within a week to 10 days. Well, I didn't true time so I called and they said they couldn't find any record of my order.

On Nov. 12 I sent them a copy of my cancelled check and requested a refund. Haven't heard a word H. Hagerstown. The word is you'll have a refund check for $57.19 within 10 days.

Slip up on sale sign I purchased carpeting, regularly $13.99 on sale for $9.99 a square yard, at a local store a couple of weeks ago. When I went to pick It up a few days later, there was a sign on my carpeting that read "regularly $9.99 on sale for $6.99 a square When I aaw that I Mew a fuse. I took the carpet home but the.more I thought about It, the madder I got. I finally talked to a salesman who said the manager had made a mistake by putting the sign on my carpet. Mistake or not, I MNJeel I should get some money back on the purchase 8., Hagerstown The sign should have read "regularly $13.99 on sale for $6.99.

The mistake wasn't noticed until you pointed it out, and the sign's since been corrected. The manager didn't sell as much carpeting as he wanted to at the $9.99 sale price, so he. decided to put it on sale again at the lower price. Getting personal attention I'm having a problem with Garflnkel's. They never credited my account wfth a $28 payment I made In March.

I've written the company three times, and called. They told me to send them a copy of my cancelled check. I did that, but apparently dkint phase them. This month's statement Is Ilka all the rest; still shows 925 pact 8. Hagerstown.

Send another copy of your cancelled check to Garfinkel's to the attention of Mrs, Carmen in the billing department. Tell her Action Line told you to write, and be sure to include your telephone number in the note of explanation. She'll personally see that your account's adjusted. Eager for ingots On April 8 I subscribed to the Hamilton Mint for the official Ingots of the United States. The same month I got two of the Ingots, which I paid for by check.

In May I got two more, but this time I charged them to my Bankamericard. I thought I'd get two more states In June, but they never came. I've written the company three letters, and received three replies, each more confusing than the last. How do I go about getting the rest of the Ingots? The ones I have are worthless by themselves. W.

8., Qulney, Pa. If you want to use your Bankamericard, you have to either pay for the complete set at one time, or for each set of ingots individually. To do the latter, you should tear off the bottom of the invoice you receive with the first set, fill it out and return it. This invoice acts as your order form for the second set. The same process should be repeated for each subsequent set.

If you've lost the Invoice you got with your second set, you should request an order form from the Hamilton Mint. Write to the attention of Carol Stem. When you fill out the order form, be sure to indicate that you want to pay by Bankamericard, but for only one set at a time. Shipment of the ingots will resume upon receipt of the completed form. Frustrated over fan Six months ago the exhaust fan above my stove stopped working.

I called a local appliance repair service and they came and took the unit out. As It turned out, they had to order a part from Collins Appliance Inc. of Pittsburgh. New, everytfme I call the local outfit they tell me they haven't received the part yet. I'm entirely frustrated.

Is there anything you can do to speed things up? C. Hegefstowrtt When we called Collins we found they had the filter for your vent In itock. Even though they had no record of the local outfit's order, they agreed to send the part to them that day. You should have your fan back in no time. People in the news New 'Miss' feels great Anticline Kriel South African Anneihte Kriel has suddenly become the second "Miss World" chosen In 1874 and the feels "fantastic" about it.

But the IB-year-old aspiring actress says she still feeli sorry for Helen Morgan, this year's first "Miss World" who abdicated the crown this week for UM sake of her baby. An unmarried mother, Miss Morgan quit her title soon after last Friday's contest because she reportedly about to be cited as "the other woman" In a divorce case. Contest organizers selected the runner-up, Mira Kriel, as the new title bolder. "1 feel terribly sorry for her," Miss Kriel "I don know how she felt about it, but I hope she did the right thing." It was the second year in a row that trouble has plagued the 57-nation beauty contest. Last year's winner, 20-year-old Mar- joiie Wallace of the United States, was deposed after a four- month reign because of alleged romances with internationally known men.

At a news conference In London Thursday, Miss Kriel still seemed a bit bowled over by the suddenness of her transformation. "Everything went pretty quickly," she said. "But I enjoyed it." Real car trouble Andrew Schott of Pekln, 111., drove Into a sendee station Thursday morning and told the attendant that car dkkVt seem to be running properly. The attendant lifted the hood and found a pipe bomb lying across the motor block. Pekin police, aided by the Peoria, HI.

police department bomb squad, disarmed the live bomb. They said their Investigation would continue. Betty to lead crusade Betty Ford has accepted the honorary chairpersonship of the American Cancer Society's 1975 crusade: Mrs. Ford, who had a cancerous right breast removed two months ago. Thursday, said she was firmly committed to the society's program of education, early detection and cancer control.

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