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I Boston Sunday Glebe March 26, 1972 THE consumer! NA1MES FACES IN THE NEWS The Tom Jones concert at the Music Hall in Boston was postponed last night when the star, Tom Jones, came down with the flu shortly before the first show. Jones was taken to MGH, where he was treated end released. US chess wizard Bobby Fischer, 28 and world champion Boris Spas-sky of Russia are training for their clash like boxers. Fischer is eating mountains of steak and drinking lots of apple juice. Spassky is doing road work and lifting weights.

Fischer said, however, he will not go to Iceland to play the second half of the world title match, citing "unacceptable financial terms" as the reason. Prof. Max Euwe, president of the World Chess Federation, said the problem will be investigated. Last year, Dallas law officers searching for two accused murderers mistakenly broke into the house of Thomas Rodriguez, 40, and shot and wounded him and his pregnant wife. Yesterday, US District Judge Robert M.

Hill ruled the officers entered the apartment legally and were not liable for the injuries. The judge denied Rodriguez's request that charges against him of assault on the officers be dropped. Rodriquez, the father of nine, may face criminal prosecution. "There will without question be an appeal," said the family's lawyer. Sr.

i-V Spring's breezes reveal Winter's blows Can home-repair 'gypsies' be far behind? EARL CALDWELL pleads innocent TCew York Times reporter Earl Caldwell, who is covering the 'trial of Angela Davis in California, has pleaded innocent to charges of possessing marijuana. Caldwell was arrested March 6 when a deputy sheriff, making a routine search of spectators and newsmen entering the courtroom, said he found a small quantity of marijuana in a film canister in Caldwell's briefcase. A preliminary hearing is set for April 14. Two feminists who kept their surnames despite being married have been told by a county election board in Maryland they will lose their right to vote unless they re-register in their husbands' names. The women, who prefer to be called Mr.

Mary Stuarr, 22, and Mrs. Nancy Ecling, 20, have until March 31 to make the name change. By Robert J. Anglin Globe Staff Warm weather brings out the gypsy gypster. Each year at about this time, thousands of homeowners are bilked schemes and other problems caused by companies with file records that show customer dissatisfaction.

"When you deal with reputable home remodeling or repair contractors, you have the satisfaction of knowing they will be there if a problem arises and that any reasonable complaint will be adjusted promptly," Sanders said. own bricks which they say just fell off the roof. There's the roofing gypster, who shows a handful of shingles and says he found them in the yard, that they must have blown off the roof. The phony driveway resurfacer who has a bargain in leftover material from a job down the street may use crankcase oil or some other gunk which will never dry and which will be tracked in the house every time someone walks through it. he ordered.

Every time he called, they tried to sell him a better, more expensive type window. This is the classic bait-and-switch operation, where the advertiser does not intend to sell at the advertised price, but uses the advertisement to lure customers, then switches them to other, higher priced merchandise. As an illustration of how profitable the home-improvement racket can be, one band of flim-flam artists lifts an estimated several hundred thousand dollars a year from the pockets of unwary homeowners. They're known as the "terrible sumer Protection Division has gathered an extensive file over the years on the Williamson clan. They're been notorious for at least 40 years, he said.

Rogers explained how the typical operation works: "A man comes to. the house in work clothes. He rings the doorbell and explains that he just finished a driveway in the area and he has enough material left over for one more job. "He claims to offer a real bargain. But it isn't.

"He may state that he is working out of a nearby community to imply that he represents a local concern. "He may even use removable let 4.. Then there's the wandering woodman the intincrant tree surgeon who offers low-priced trimming. He often leaves shade trees in wen poor condition it takes years to restore them. The humus poddler arrives with a truckloud of dark, rich-looking and spreads a sample basket on the lawn.

It has a lush promise when it is contrasted with the scraggly, winlcr-ravishcd crass. It's a bargain in a variety of home improvement schemes, most of them offered by itinerant peddlers who show up in Eastern Massachusetts every spring like homing pigeons. It may be chimneys, driveways, landscaping, roofing, siding or other home improvement needs, but trouble usually arrives for the unwary the fame way: Tlic doorbell rings. Then the pitch begins. This fellow and his crew just happen to be in the neighborhood on a job and they've noticed the condition of your driveway, walks, roof, shrubs, etc.

Because they just happen to be in the r.cighbnihnod and have some ma- left over, they ay. they're p'mR to give a s-rwial deal. The deal t.i! -m out to be tpeciol, all right, but iv.c homeowner probably won't like ThvisC peddler give legitimate Perhaps the most widespread home improvement racket is the "model home" ruse. A salesman, selling aluminum or vinyl siding, paint, a miracle coating or whatever, says he'll refinish the whole outside of the house for cost. A nationally-known company, the salesman says, is moving into the area and needs a model home to show off its work.

Your house has been chosen. After the work is done and customers, impressed with your house, begin contracting for the same job, you'll be given a commission for each sale. It never gels that far, however, because the siding, paint or miracle coating is washed off in the rain, falls off by itself or just looks a mess. The salesman, if he hasn't left town, is probably protected by a contract signed when you were bedazzled by promises of low costs and commissions. Another dodge is bait advertising.

tering on his truck to suit the area in which he is working. After they op-crate in an area for a while they switch their lettering and address on the truck. "It's really 'here today and gone tomorrow'," Rogers said. Williamsons," a clan that numbers at least a couple of hundred, of Scottish descent but strikingly similar to gypsy families. Every spring, under a variety of aliases, they swarm out of the South in expensive cars and shiny trucks.

They cover an area with their bunco schemes and have vanished by the lime complaints begin coming in to local authorities. One of their favorite methods of making a quick dollar is the offer of a cheap driveway seal coating because they just happen to be in the neighborhood. They also peddle "imported wool" at SjO a bolt that's actually at $1 or so a basket, and it won't take much. The homeowner even tries to keep count, but the peddler aokes for a drink of water, and when the sucker returns he's billed for 150 baskets which may only be kludge from some hemical plant, Sanders said that one good way to May out of trouble In this field is through a simple telephone call to the Dettcr Business Bureau. "Thousand persons call the BUB each year seeking Information about home Improvement firms.

"In fact, for every complaint the bureau receive in thtt field, we sn-swer 10 inquiric. "Through thic service, the Bureau able to ptotpct the public againn bait advertising, model home ADAM CLAYTON I'OWKLI. vwv.u Adam (1aln Powell, G3. autln-r, end firmer Haikm ycMctday wa in a deep at a ll.s tr.a-j- bodily fancier. weic being per-Jt nr.rd by a machine lip waa March 7 herr.nrthag itg tf X.f.J jn F.ntf'and, thought ti.ey Jwlu.e i r.atr p.n it 12-J r-r-.

Jmkie I ullrr unn i' t'-e n-rh. "Thai lie said me driveway scat coating is usually a substitute or merely diluted seal coating. "Some of the material they use is not only unsuitable, but may actually be destructive to the driveway. "The guarantees they may give arc worthless, because by the time you find your driveway is a mess they have moved to parts unknown," Rogers said. Strangely, the Consumer Protection Division dors not receive many complaints about phony driveway work.

Apparently, Rogers said, many persons are ashamed to admit they've been taken. i'h legitimate offer a tad name. How thn ou tvoid them? Leon-Sfd Sandeii, prciider.l of the Ikttcr Kuicau tf Eastern Mawa rvJuclM it'i nirrp'e: "Chevk cm out. Deal only with in your own immunity, who have their name rerutnii to Trivl.r.i: Ut known to bring their own tcr-r thiney rtrairmcn tht.r mostly rayon worth $4 or $3, or "Irish lace or linen" that's really Chinese cotton. And they hawk "aluminum paint" for roofs or barns that's mostly crankcase oil or gasoline and "lightning rods" that may be little more than rope treated with a steel fluid to make it look like metal.

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