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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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SUN-DEMOCWAT, PADUCAH, KY. FACE r0UlB 1 High-Prcswre Uoor-To-Door Tactics Come Under New Laiv 'I. v.v By BILL BERGSTROM Associated Press Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) 'V; gram with the Better Business Bureau and the Sheriff 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 Kentucklans who find a salesman at their door using high pressure methods or other objectionable tactics should be able to do more about It under a new law passed by the 1972 General Assembly.

5 The law requires solicitors for subscriptions for "magazines, periodicals, encyclo pedias, books, Bibles or other printed matter" to register i 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 telling company by the end of the third business day after the sale. The sale must be for more than $25, he said, andthe seller may retain part or all of any down payment that is made as a cancellation fee as long as the amount doesn't exceed five per cent of the purchase price. Previously, Akers said, -'some companies had this built into their contract, but as far as I know nothing was In the books statewide about It." Akers said book and magazine salesmen were second, after mailorder houses, In generating 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. thelr-; numbers Local AMVETS Elected To State Posts (')! ft fk V.

Several members of AMVETS and Auxiliary Post 56 were elected to offices for 1972-73 at the organization's state conven tion, held recently In Louisville. Thomas Massie of Post 56 was elected state senior vice com used In soliciting and auto licenses with authorities In the county where they will be active. While "people have always complained to the Better Business Bureau," Richard Akers of the Louisville Better Business Bureau says, "the bill that was passed calls for chambers of commerce and sheriffs departments to handle this" as well. Akers said Louisville and Lexington are the only Kentucky cities with Better Business Bureaus, but most other communities have chambers of commerce or sheriffs departments that will be able to set IT'S BIG BUT SLIPPERY There la room tor three passengers on the back of Herman, a hippopotamus at the Southern California Exposition in Del Mar. But staying on Is tough.

Trying, from front, are Eileen Ryan and Ricky Evind, both 12, and Tom Russell, 11. AP wPhto mander and was master of cere monies for the commanders' banquet. William Bunch was elected state legislative officer. Mrs. Shirley Bunch was elect ed auxiliary state sergeant-at- arms and served as mistress of ceremonies for the president's REMINGTON LEKTRO BLADE 6 luncheon.

Massie attended the conven up a registor such as the law tion as state legislative officer, CORD SHAVER WITH NEW DISPOSABLE BLADES, while Bunch was an alternate 4 A Sy and Mrs. Bunch attended as president of Auxiliary Post 56. Others attending from Post 56 were StanfonJ Barnes, post WITH FREE SET OF REPLACEMENT BLADES REGULAR $24.95 'jt isW commander and delegate; James Dawson, delegate; Wil U.S. chess champion Bobby Fitcher. Their 24-game match for the world title, is scheduled to start in Reykjavik Sunday.

Photo from Sovphoto. (AP Wirephoto) SOVIET CHESS MASTER IN ICELAND, AWAITING FISCHER-World chess champion Boris Spassky, shown here playing with his son, Vasya, was reported In Reykjavik, Iceland, Tuesday, awaiting the arrival of liam Eanes and Paul Sowell Other auxiliary members at tending were Rose Lowery, dele gate; Shirley Massie, state ser- geant-at-arms, and Ina Sowell, .1 41 vr: I LIMITED II Wallace's Motlier Feels Hopeful alternate. 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 signing 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 Solicitors." "If they're registered," Akers said, "we can go directly to the 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 TIME! By REX THOMAS ii im.ni BhBl HBLBLW MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) Southern Brazil Busiest Gov.

George C. Wallace's all right" at the Democratic National Convention. Mrs. Wallace retired in 1969 from her job as secretary to the head of the Bureau of Pre mother had to learn to walk BRASILIA With about one- again after surgery 11 weeks I 1 Open Fridays Until 8:30 PM. fifth of Brazil's land area, the ago for removal of a brain tu ventable Diseases in the state south and southeast have 60 per cent of the population and generate more than four-fifths of Health Department.

She had worked for the state since 1944, long before her son got into politics. She likes to work outdoors the national income. "planting flowers," and when Rhino Horn A Cure? UNITED NATIONS, N. will be advised to call the police, or the Better Business Bu she can, she goes fishing. She mmmn JEWELERS spends a "good bit of my time many parts of the world, shredded and whole rhinoceros horn cause he's been so prominent as a public figure and is in more danger.

"He had dinner with me Mother's Day," she recalled. "And when he went to the car, I said, 'I'm worried about you. Be He said, 'Mother, I'll be all "Then the next afternoon this terrible thing happened. I wanted to go see him, but I wasn't able until a few days ago. Then Hurricane Agnes came along and I couldn't up there." The governor is hospitalized at Silver Spring, Md.

His mother expects him to return home in a few days. Wallace's doctors say he has less than a 50-50 chance of ever walking again without crutches and braces. But his mother says, "He'll walk again. With his determination and the prayers of the people, he'll, walk again." "You know," she continued, "I had to learn to walk again after my operation. It affected with my three grandchildren" reau will do so itself.

In the Louisville area, the Chamber of Commerce has announced that it will coordinate who live next door, and "I get still enjoys high medical repute out and drive my car around for curing chest complaints, re- and visit people." a salesman registration pro- lieving pain and healing wounds. mor. Now she feels strongly that her son will walk again. Mozelle Wallace, 74, was still recuperating from the operation when her eldest son, campaigning at Laurel, for the Democratic presidential nomination, was shot May 15 and lejt paralyzed in both legs. "I was at home alone, but fortunately I didn't have the television on," she recalled in an interview Wednesday.

"The neighbors began coming in to be with me, but it was Alton 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 it is. The only thing we can do is Mrs.

Wallace, who retired three years ago as a state employe, said she always worries about her children three sons and a daughter "but I always SUMMER SALE OF AICNEK SHOES Ah my right side. It took a while to learn to steer myself again." Even though she confessed she's "not much of a politician," Mrs. Wallace said she Paducah Downtown had a feeling her son "will do worried more about George be 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 treas WASHINGTON (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 nullifying the 1969 elections of UMW President W. A. "Tony" Boyle and other top officials, gave the Labor Department power to urer and some minor offices will be given space in the next issue of the union newspaper As ENTIRE STOCK SUMMER DRESSES ENTIRE STOCK SUMMER SPORTSWEAR ENTIRE STOCK SWIMSUITS for statements. There will be no campaign statement fropi Boyle in that edition because he has not announced his candidacy, sources said, but added that Boyle is expected to run for reelection.

Boyle Tuesday was sentenced to five years in prison and fined $130,000 on his conviction virtually run the union and 1 Miners for Democracy the right OFF to place observers in union offices until the election. MFD spokesmen have said Bryant has ordered the election of illegally authorizing the spending of about $49,000 in un to be held over the period of Dec. ion funds for political contributions in the 1968 elections. The Labor Department said Wednesday that Bryant, ruled also that the Labor Department may have a representative at all meetings of the Mine Work ers Executive Board. The UMW said it had re ceived notification from four Boyle is free on bond pending appeals.

Candidates for the December ballot must receive the support of 50 local union chapters in order to be nominated. Miller and his vice-presidential running mate, Mike Trbov-ich, were in Bluefield and Beckley, W. Wednesday to kick off their campaign in UMW 1 1 29, covering most of southern West Virginia persons seeking the union presi dency. They are Arnold Miller of Oh- ley, W. the Miners for De- mocacy candidate; John Cas-sldy of Uniontown, a former District 4 officer; Steve and containing more locals Rcgulae 20.00 To 30.00 Jnst in time for summer, these fampui maker shoes are specially priced.

"Cadillac" Kochis, a former lo- than any other UMW district. Brewery Began In 1376 WEST BERLIN Beer has Much Coal, Oil Used CHICAGO The furnaces of a million-kilowatt power plant burn about 2.6 million tons of coal or 10 million barrels of oil every year. JEWELRY SUNGLASSES. SUMMER PURSES SCARVES been made in the eBrlin area since 1376, when the Palace 7 Brewery began production. Price Doghouses Are Barrels LEESBURG, firm here uses barrels in which whisky Germans Use English BONN-More than 150 reviews, magazines and other periodicals edited In German-speaking countries are published in English.

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