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The Paducah Sun from Paducah, Kentucky • 26

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The Paducah Suni
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Paducah, Kentucky
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PACE FOUB-B SUN-DEMOCRAT, iPADUCAH, KY. THURSDAY, jyNE ft 1 High-Pressure DoorTo-Door Tactics ComeJJiiderJSeiv Lmv By BILL BFlRGSTROM Associated Press Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) Kentuckians who find a salesman at their door using high pressure methods or other objectionable tactics should be gram with the Better Business Bureau and the Sheriffs office. Bill Kerberg, Chamber general manager, said, "the more reputable companies are already registered with the' Better Business Bureau, this just requires that they all do it." Akers, said "having two agencies now dealing with the same thing will provide a good way of cross-checking if we miss one they'll probably pick able to do more about it under a new law; passed by the 1972 i- I' 'TT rr i mix ini i i General Assembly. him up, and vice versa." Another provision of the new law, Akers said, Is that a home sale may be cancelled if the buyer notifies the selling company by the end of the third business day after the sale.

The sale must be for more than $25, he said, and the seller may ret tain part or all of any down payment mat is made as a cancellation fee as long as the amount doesn't exceed five per cent of the purchase price. Previously, A kje rV: a i "some companies had this built into their contract, bat as far as I know nothing was in the books statewide about it." Akers said book and magazine salesmen were second, The law requires solicitors i fr VJ nv, i' for subscriptions for "magazines, periodicals, encyclopedias, books, Bibles or other printed matter" to -register V-j their names, phone numbers Local AMVETS Elected To State Posts Several members of AMVETS used in soliciting and auto licenses with authorities in the county where they will be active. While "people have always complained to the Better Busi and Auxiliary Post 56 were after mailorder houses, in gen elected to offices for 1972-73 at the organization's state conven ness Bureau," Ricnara. Alters of the Louisville Better Busi- tion, held recently in Louisville. Thomas Massie of Post 56 was IT'S BIG BUT JLIPPERY There Is room for three passengers on the back of Herman, a hippopotamus at the Southern California Exposition in Del Mar.

But staying on is tough. erating complaints to the Better Business Bureau last year. He said 61 complaints were received last year concerning book and magazine sales, though not all were about door-to-door salesmen. ness Bureau says, "the bill that was passed calls for chambers of commerce and sheriffs de elected state senior vice com Trying, from front, are Eileen Ryan-and Ricky Evind, both partments to handle this" as mander and was master of ceremonies for the commanders' banquet. William Bunch was CAP Wirephoto) 12, and Tom Russell, II.

well. Akers said Louisville and Lexington are the only Ken elected state legislative officer. Mrs. Shirley Bunch was elect ed auxiliary state serjeant-at- arms and served as mistress of REMINGTON LEKTRO BLADE 6 ceremonies lor the president's luncheon. Massie attended the conven CORD SHAVER WITH NEW DISPOSABLE BUDES.

tion as state legislative officer, while Bunch was an alternate and Mrs. Bunch attended as president of Auxiliary Post 56. Others attending from Post WITH FREE SET OF REPLACEMENT BLADES REGULAR $24.95 1 fifllilil 56 were Stanford Barnes, post commander and delegate; James Dawson, delegate; Wil U.S. chess champion Bobby Fltcher. Their 24-game match for the world title, is scheduled to start in Reykjavik Sunday.

Photo SOVIET CHESS MASTER IN ICELAND, AWAITING FISCHER-Worid chess champion Boris Spassky, shown here playing witH his son, Vasya, was reported to Reykjavik, tucky cities with Better Business Bureaus, but most other communities have chambers of commerce or sheriffs departments that will be able to set up a registor such as the law calls for. Previously, Akers said, "in smaller communities salesmen could hit town whenever they wanted, do whatever they wanted, and then they were gone." He explained the advantages of having the salesmen registered, saying many "individuals have been coming in here for years siping up with us." When the solicitors are registered, he said, the Better Business Bureau can act effectively when it receives complaints of salesmen who are "abusive, pushy, or who are entering apartment buildings that have a huge sign out front that says 'No "If they're registered," Akers said, "we can go directly to the liam Eanes and Paul Sowell. feSTO from Sovphoto. -AP Wirephoto) Iceland. Tuesdav.

awaions the arrival of $51 ylM Other auxiliary members attending were Rose Lowery, delegate; Shirley Massie, state ser-geant-at-arms, and Ina Sowell, LEKTIO SLACK FOR A Wallace's Mother Feels Hopeful alternate. LIMITED TIME! By REX THOMAS HURRY INI! cause he's been so prominent as a public figure and is in all right" at the Democratic National Convention. Mrs. Wallace retired in 1969 MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Gov.

George C. Wallace's mother had to learn to walk more danger. Southern Brazil Busiest BRASILIA With about, one- "He had dinner with me from her job as secretary to again after surgery 11 weeks Open Fridays Until 8:30 P.M. fifth of Brazil's land, area, the ago for removal of a brain tu Mother's Day," she recalled. "And when he went to the car, I said, 'I'm worried about you.

Be He said, 'Mother, south and southeast have 60 per cent of the population and gen mor. Now she feels strongly that her son will walk again. 1 ii xjiAMOMt tmir erate more thai four-fifths of Mozelle Wallace, 74, was still I'll be all right. the head of the Bureau of Preventable Diseases in the state Health Department. She had worked for the state since 1944, long before her son got into politics.

She likes to work outdoors "planting and when 1 the national income. recuperating from the operation when her eldest son, cam "Then the next afternoon this terrible thing happened. I want paigning at Laurel, for the Rhino Horn A Cure? ed to go see him, but I wasn't able until a few days ago. Then crew chief who is handling the squad, or whatever, of salesmen, and tell him about it." If the complaint is a recurring one, he said, the individual will be advised to call the police, or the Better Business Bureau will do so itself. In the Louisville area, the Chamber of Commerce has announced that it will coordinate Democratic presidential nomi JEWELERS UNITED NATIONS, N.

she she goes fishing. She 304BMWAY 1 nation, was shot May 15 and many parts of the world, shred Hurricane Agnes came along and I couldn't fly up there." spends a "good bit of my time left paralyzed in both legs. was at home alone, but with my three grandchildren" who live next door, and "I get The governor is hospitalized ded and whole rhinoceros horn still enjoys high medical repute at Silver Spring, Md. His moth fortunately, I didn't have fle television on," she recalled in out and drive my car around for curing chest complaints, re- er expects him to return home in a few days. and visit people." pro- lieving pain and healing wounds, a salesman registration SALE OF Wallace doctors say he has less than a 50-50 chance of ever walking again without crutches AIGNEK SHOES and braces.

But his mother says, "He'll walk again. With his determination and the prayers of the people, he'll walk again." an interview Wednesday. "The neighbors began coming in to be with me, but it Altpn who told me about it" Alton Dauphin who lives next door, is her son-in-law. "He was in the barber shop when he heard it and he came right home. He said 'George has been shot.

We don't know how bad ir isnhe only" thing we can do is wait" Mrs. Wallace, who retired three years ago as a state employe, said she always worries about her childrenthree sons and a daughter "but I always worried more about George be "You know," she continued, I had to learn to walk again after my operation. It affected my right side. It took a while to learn to steer myself again." Even though she confessed she's "not much of a politi cian," Mrs. Wallace said she Paducah Downtown had a feeling her son "will do SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE Labor Department Says UMW Must Pay Observers cal union president from Bob- town, who opposed Boyle in the union's 1964 election; and Jack Keene, a miner from Burnwell, Ky.

The union spokesman said these and candidates for union vice president, secretary treasurer and some minor offices will be given space in the next issue of the union newspaper for statements. V- 7 There wilLte inocampaign. ENTIRE STOCK SUMMER DRESSJE ENTIRE STOCK SUMMER SPORTSWEAR ENTIRE STOCK SWIMSUITS statement from Boyle in that edition because he has not announced his candidacy, sources said, but added that Boyle is expected to run for reelection. WAS HINGTON (AP)-The, Labor Department says the United Mine Workers must pay more than $30,000 in monthly salaries to Miners for Democracy members serving as union observers until December's court-ordered UMW election. The order came from U.S.

District Judge William B. Bryant, who earlier, in nullify-ing the 1969 elections of UMW President W. A. "Tony" Boyle and other top officials, gave the Labor, Department power to virtually run the union and Miners for Democracy the right to place observers in union offices until the election. MFD spokesmen have said Bryant has ordered the election to be held over the period of Dec.

1-8. The Labor Department said Wednesday that Bryant ruled also that the Labor Department may have a representative at all meetings of the Mine Workers Executive Board. The UMW said it had received notification from four persons seeking the union presidency. They are Arnold Miller of Oh-ley, W. the Miners for De-mocacy candidate; John Cas- Boyle Tuesday was sentenced OFF to five years in prison and fined $130,000 on his conviction of illegally authorizing the spending of about $49,000 in union funds for political contributions In the 1968 elections.

Boyle is free on bond pending appeals. Candidates for the December ballot must receive the support of 50 local union chapters in or der to be nominated, Miller and his vice-presiden tial running mate, Mike Trbov- ich, were in Bluefield and Beckley, W. Wednesday to kick off their campaign in UMW District 29, covering most of southern West Virginia and containing more locals sidy of Uniontown, a for Regulac 20.00 To 30.00 Just In time for snmmer, these famous maker shoes are specially priced. mer District 4 officer; Steve "Cadillac" Kochis, a former lo- than any other UMW district. Much Coal, OU Used CHICAGO The furnaces of a million-kilowatt power plant Brewery Began In 1376 WEST BERLIN Beer has been made in the eBrlin area since 1376, when the Palace Brewery began production.

burn about 2.6 million tons of JEWELRY SUNGLASSES SUMMER PURSES bZ SCARVES lce coal or 10 million barrels of oil every year. Doghouses Arc Barrels LEESBURG, firm here Germans Use English BONN More than 150 reviews, magazines and other periodicals edited In German-speaking countries are published in English. Downtown iJVv! uses barrels in which whisky has been aged as doghouses for 1,500 pure-bred beagies..

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