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5E Page design: Rebecca Roberts Batie Lincoln Journal Star Sunday, August 1 8, 1996 BUSINESS WeaverChip maker hopes buyout will end money woes Pastor pays to settle solicitation charges Continued from Page 1 $300,000 from 145 people who bought securities in Kingdom Industries a company that was supposed to invest in real estate, SEC said. Eric Schmidt, SECs assistant regional director in New York, said Jackson solicited some of his former church members at so-called "success seminars." The gatherings were recorded, and Jackson promoted the tapes on his radio ministry, Schmidt said. The SEC charged Jackson with fraudulent offer and sale of securities in Kingdom Industries. The agency said Jackson misused or diverted more than $200,000 of investor funds to cover his personal expenses, the expenses of his church or to invest in another company. WASHINGTON (AP) A New York City pastor has been ordered to repay $189,000 to settle charges of misusing money solicited from church members and radio program listeners, the Securities and Exchange Commission said.

Rufus L. Jackson, pastor of the defunct Zoe Tabernacle Church, was charged with raising more than CardsBanks pleased with first test of cash alternative Weaver's parents, EM. and Phyllis Weaver, started the firm by making potato chips at home in 1932. Ed Weaver Jr. took over the firm in 1958 when it was at 610 with 20 employees and annual sales of $300,000.

In 1964, Weaver Potato Chip moved to Center Park Road. The plant has undergone four expansions. Weaver Potato Chip Co. makes just about every kind of salty snack except pretzels. Weaver products include corn, tortilla and nacho chips, cheese curls and popcorn.

The company gets half of its income from making chips and other snacks sold under Russ's Market, Super Saver, Hinky Dinky, Old Fashioned and other labels. The past few years have not been easy for Weaver. In 1992, despite offers from large corporations, he sold his controlling interest in the company for $1 million to employee K. Thomas Dunn. Weaver said he wanted to turn over the firm to a local owner in order to protect his workers, many of them longtime employees.

At age 65, Weaver thought he had retired. Less than two years later, and unhappy with Dunn's management, he reassumed control of the cards a step further. Most of the cards distributed in Atlanta were disposable; Visa wants to see how New Yorkers respond to cards that can be reloaded at ATMs. "While Atlanta was about awareness, New York is going to be about really testing how people live with this in an everyday environment," Melancon said. accepted the cards, he said, Some cashiers did not know how to process the card.

And there was one case where someone spilled a soda on one terminal and knocked out a bank of them. The New York test, planned during the last three months of this year and focusing on a 30-block area of the Upper West Side, will take smart Last fall Weaver had received commitments from Norwest Bank and CIT Corp. of Kansas City, for $2.7 million in loans. He then received a $750,000 loan from city and county officials, which came from federal community development block grants. Weaver blamed much of the company's recent cash flow problems on Norwest, but the firm could not have been helped by the decision of Hy-Vee and Baker's supermarkets to take their private-label business to Guy's Potato Chips of Kansas City, Mo.

Largely as a result, Weaver said the company's sales will slip from $10 million last year to between $6 million and $8 million this year. "We're back to the level we were at six or seven years ago," he said. Weaver has the controlling interest in the company. The only other board member is Edgar Meredith of Dallas. Employees own 27 percent of the company's stock.

Weaver said that trying to save the company has been the toughest thing he has gone through in his 50 years of business. "Miserable would describe it well," he said, with slight smile. "It just seems that nothing works out the way it ought to." The company's financial condition "affects everything you are doing," Weaver said. "It kinds of grinds you down." As for the employees, Weaver said, "We're trying to keep their morale up. We're all kind of hanging in there and hoping this thing straightens out and gets better." He acknowledged that the company Mas contributed to the employees' pension fund for the last couple ofyears.

The company's contributions are voluntary and based on profits, he said, "but there haven't been any." The events of the past few years have devalued employees' stock. Weaver said. "The objective is to build the value of the stock back up by successful operation and that will restore their pension plan." Weaver said that he and the employees appreciate the expressions of support from the public and other business people since the bankruptcy plan became public last week. People have written and called, and some have even volunteered to work at the plant. One is now giving tours.

Weaver's wife, Lois, is helping by working as the company's receptionist. Weaver, a former three-time Lancaster County Republican Party chairman and organizer of the Nebraska Leadership Council and other conservative efforts, said his Christian faith is helping him get through the days. "Whether or not the company succeeds is not up to Ed Weaver," he said. "It's up to the Lord." Continued from Page 1E al Olympic Park, said he took in about $200 a day from customers with smart cards. "Compared to what we're doing overall, we're doing only 1 percent of sales" from the cards, he said.

Nearby, Jock's and Jill's Sports Grill did not accept the card. Assistant manager Terry Deardon said few patrons asked about them. "In the two weeks prior to and during Olympic activity, I've received a maximum of 10 requests for the cash card," Deardon said. Visa said there were 260,000 smart card transactions in Atlanta in July, up from 50,000 in June. David Melancon, a Visa spokesman, said a survey by the credit card company indicated that 70 percent of Atlanta residents were aware of the card and that 21 percent would use one.

The major complaint was that too few stores CORRECTION FOR THIS WEEK'S SALE CIRCULAR MEN'S AND WOMEN'S ADIDAS UTE XT ATHLETIC SHOES MEN'S NORTHCREST THERMAL MESH HENLEY ARE NOT AVAILABLE DUE TO THE VENDOR'S INABILITY TO SHIP; RAINCHECKS WILL BE ISSUED FOR A LONG SLEEVED HENLEY. WE APOLOGIZE FOR ANY INCONVENIENCE THIS MAY HAVE CAUSED. SvJ09BSM.i'?afB firm. He said he found the company more than $6 million in debt and has spent the past two years trying to reduce it. Now 68, he said he returned out of concern for employees.

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