Wise County Messenger from Decatur, Texas • Page 13

THE WISE COUNTY MESSENGER DECATUR, TEXA8 Bond chain letters violate postal laws The Department of the whether the letters or bonds Treasury is aware that are to be transmitted chain letter activities involv through the mails, mg the use of U.S. Savings Individuals who purchase Bonds continue to reappear. Savings Bonds for such Chain letter schemes, in chain letter schemes, and eluding those involving U.S. who discover that participa Savings Bonds, which use tion may violate certain laws the mails to facilitate their and regulations, may purpose. arc- considered by quest a refund, using the postal authorities as in Treasury Form PD 2966 violation of the postal lot This form is available at tery and fraud laws.

many banks; it may also be Such schemes are con requested from the Bureau sidered lotteries, because of the Public Debt. 200 Third the question as to whether Street, Parkersburg. W.V. the chain will be broken is a 28101. matter of chance; it also a Representing Saudi Arabia investor Thursday June 29.

1978 PAGE THIRTEEN 24-Hour Road Service ALL TYPES OF TRUCK AND AUTO TIRES Jackson Tire Co. Don Jackson. Bill Jackson Owners NEW QUARTERS Zelma Dodson is one of the four office employees occupying new office spaces for Dallas Productions at 204 State in Decatur, main office is in Dallas This field oflice has been located in Decatur four years Production Afvorcf news Sands home site of party manager Archie Crawford, operated the company out of his home three miles south of Alvord the previous year Construction was done by Castle Properties, Gary Reed, contractor Rv LIBBY AN COCK The Sands family enter tamed the Sussanna Wesley ('lass in their home last Tuesday evening Misses Margaret and Henryetta Sands greeted guesta at the door with Mrs Hal Sands greeting an arrange glads in a centered with ment of pink crystal bowl Assisting in hostess duties were Mmes Barbara Peace. Loyce Garrett. Cookie Neighbors.

Lynn Thompson. Donna Endres, Christine Clower, Inei Hand. Zenna women as they seated Bice, aria Dodd, Mary ov tn the living room Miss ington. Kam Whitt and Cathryn Sands was ronftned Kathy Sisk to a rhair with a sprained foot. Veach and his fiance.

Mrs Bail, president. im Nancy Witherspoon of presided with Mrs Dallas, visited his parents. Dyer reading the minutes Mrs Lewis Veach. and Mrs carrel Strange Sunday giving the financial state Mrs Tim Coffee ment Mrs James Malone Ty Marshall were and Miss Margaret Sands of their reported for the committee Parents, Mr and Mrs for a memorial for Mrs Bar Marion offee and Mr and Kara Mosier and Mrs Mary Bice, and her Holley Mrs Jeane Smith Mrs Ben Peace and gave the devotional, Thompson, and Assisting hostess duties their families Mrs Verneli Riiey Mrs Champion vis ited in Austin last week when she got to be with her great granddaughwr. Nor madie Anne Menn She also visited in Fort Worth with Mr and Mrs Wallis Cham Patricia and Mark home from their grandparents.

Mr and Mrs Howard Core Mr and Mrs Jack Haney of Tyler weekend vis itors with relatives and friends Visiting in the Fearrel Strange home recently has been her sister. Dan Ogletree of Lamesa Kevin and Allison Baney of Brownfield have been visiting their grandmother, Haney, and great icrandmother. Mrs Mag Smith, They returned home Monday by plane with their parents, Mr and Scott Haney, who had been on a vacation in California Their older brother, Chris, had re mained in Brownfield where he is attending a summer camp this week Jacksboro stops lawn watering Jacksboro City Aldermen have ordered a halt to out side watering, City Water Supt. James Strickland told aldermen the problem is not the lake level, but rather the refilling of the city water tower. The city is pumping out 900,000 gallons a day and with all pumps operating at capacity, the water level is still dropping 10 feet per day.

City officials say adequate water pressure cannot be matter of chance whether a participant will reap anything from his participa tion. The fraud aspect enters into the schemes, because representations are made that the participants will, eventually, receive substan tial rewards In the usual case, however, the chain of gullible persons soon vanishes and there is no way by which a new partici pant can determine whether there is available a reservoir of interested persons suffi cient to his name to the top of the Postal officials have warn ed that, even though the lists of participants are not circulated in the mails, it does not alter the illegality of the operation since, usually, the bonds or other evidence of participation in the schemes are mailed. There is also the possibility that the scheme may violate state or local antilottery laws, even though the mails were not used in any way. Hwy. 114, 1 Mile East of Boyd Phone 433 5725.

Frank Van Court of the Houston law firm of Vinson and Elkins, is representing investor Dr. Ghaith Pharaon of Saudi, Arabia, in construc tion of Plaza of the Americas planned for downtown Dal las. Van Court is married to the former Jackye Hickey, who was bom in Decatur. The couple has two sons. Gregory Alan.

9. and David Cowden, 7. Mrs. Van mother is the former Rachel Shults. who was born and reared in Decatur.

Read the ads Banks and other issuing curtailed. Watering will be allowed on July 1 and 2. Violators will be given one warning, but will be fined $200 for the second mfrac tion. Bonds were passed in a re cent election to provide for installation of larger pumps to refuse to sell Savings Bonds in cases where they know or have reason to suspect that the bonds will be used in any type of chain letter scheme. This applies STAREK BUSINESS MACHINES Sales Service 416 Cates.

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