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4 Paris News, Christmas shoppers tip Postal Service Warns of mail-order swindles WASHINGTON (AP) The Postal Service warns Christmas shoppers to be wary of mail-order swindlers, who may be operating in record numbers this, holiday season. "These operators offer something at an extremely attractive price and then don't deliver," said Postal Service attorney George Davis. "Christmas is a busy mailing time because it is a time of busy commercial activity. And those who seek to deceive come out of the woodwork at Christmas time," Davis said in an interview. Though many mail-order concerns are legitimate, the ailing economy has started a boom in mail-order fraud, and it may get worse during the Christmas season, Postal Service officials say.

"This is a time when the buyer should beware even more than usual. If a mail- order sounds too good to be true, then that's probably what it is," Davis said. As an example of a mail- order swindle from a previous holiday season, Davis cited an operator who advertised a wellknown make of camera for about $50 less than its market value. "He got thousands of people to mail him checks for $19.95 but the swindler wasn't delivering any cameras," Davis said. Postal inspectors obtained a court order allowing seizure of his bank'account.

Eventually, $200,000 was returned to people who fell for the scheme. Another scheme that operated during a previous Christmas season involved misrepresentation of the size and quality of dolls. The dolls mailed to buyers turned out to be much smaller and of poorer quality than those described in an ad. Davis said another area to be careful of is mail-order franchising, which could involve an obligation to buy holiday greeting cards with the promise that they can later be sold for a profit. "You could end up with a lot of cards that won't sell and would be difficult to give away," Davis said.

Postal officials said that anyone who doesn't receive satisfaction on a mail-order purchase should contact the local postmaster. On student paper Ex-editor. 71, back at college LAST 2 Special" Bicentennial Farewell Showing! Your Last Chance To See the Original, Uncut Version On The Giant Motion Picture 101, CLARK GABLE VIVIEH LEIGH HSU MWT IM fc MWW Umltd trtu PLAZA Monday Night Is Buck Night All Tickets $1.00 Shows TAKE A HARD RIDE JIM BROWN I ESCAPED FROM DEUILS ISLAND; DENISON, Tex. (AP) Byron Buzbee is back at his typewriter banging out a column for the student newspaper at Grayson County College and thinking about collecting enough credits to get that long- delayed degree from Oklahoma University. Buzbee is a veteran newsman who retired six years ago as managing editor of the Denis on Herald.

Now, he's telling readers about the Senior Avocational and Vocational Education (SAVE) program at the two- year college in this North- eastTexas City. Buzz, as he is better known, not only writes about SAVE but participates in the project funded by the college. It's for citizens 55 years and over, and offers a wide-range of courses, some of which may be applied toward a college degree. Now 71, Buzz is taking a course in Spanish and another in political science where, he said in a recent interview, "we have some hell of rap sessions, talking ''about everything from George Washington to Richard Nixon." Mrs. Buzbee also is enrolled in SAVE although, as her husband said, "she has two degrees already and here I arri plodding along for my first one." Buzbee said he'll send his SAVE grades up to Norman and get that degree "unless they have to carry me across the stage on a stretcher." As he wrote in a recent column, gives us elderly some courses that are in the curriculum for" freshmen and sophomores and worth credits for a degree.

And fortunately, of us are doing just that. GOLD IN HANDS Austrialian prospectors Desmon, left, and Arthur Robins hold the $25,000 gold nugget they unearthed at Dunnolly. The 182-ounce nugget is the biggest find of the century in Victoria province. (AP Wirephoto) Body donation due on Texas driver license AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) Texas drivers' licenses issued after Jan.

1 will carry a witnessed statement whereby the holder of the license may donate any part of his body as an anatomical gift at the time of his death. The statement oh the back of the redesigned driver's license is the result of ai- law passed by the '1975 Legislature that becomes effective Jan. 1. The new license will look same on one side with the driver's name, address, physical description, signature and photograph. However, on the back side will be the statement that allows the driver, on his death, to donate his body or any portion of it to any hospital, surgeon or" physician.

The bequest must carry the driver's signature and the signatures of two witnesses. If the driver does not care to participate in the anatomical gift program the statement on the back of the license does not need to be competed and signed. At Boorman heads social services Debbie Boorman, 1975 graduate of Abilene Christia College with a major in social services, has been named director of social services at McCuistion Center. 1 Miss Boorman will: work with patients and family in coordinating supportive and non-medical assistance for patient care. Also, she will be actively involved with area community service agencies to coordinate additional patient care if needed once they leave the hospital.

Miss Boorman, who lives at 2205 Simpson, is a native of Princeton. Her parents still live in Princeton. Other members of her family include two brothers, Paul, 23; and Warren, 17. Along with her major in social services, she has a psychology minor and extensive field work experience in child care. Henry Wade is tough one Dallas DA hunk of grinning granite CINIMA Showtimes CINEMA I Showtimes 7:00 8:50 MUMMM MCf ttMC kf MR MSHKU STU1NM CMS DALLAS (AP) The playbill might have read "The State of Texas vs.

Lee Harvey Oswald, starring Henry Wade as the prosecutor." It might have been one of the greatest courtroom dramas in American history. Wade's descendants might have found his name written alongside that of Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. Schools would have been named for him. Future law students would have studied him. His name might have become synonomous with oratory and courtroom technique, what doctors call their bedside manner.

All of it might have been had Jack Ruby not stepped in and assassinated Oswald before a national television audience. Ji "Aw, says Wade, biting off a chunk of cigar, "we'd have convicted him anyway." Henry Menasco Wade, 61, wasn't bragging. The chances are very good Oswald would have. been 'convicted if for no other reason than because of Wade's record as district attorney for Dallas County. He has sought the death penalty 24 times and obtained it 23 times, a point he says he doesn't like to "play up.

But the only reason we lost that one time is because it was an armed robbery deal-no killing involved. And then the jury was deadlocked 10-2 for two days before they all voted against the electric chair." Wade is one of 11 children of a country judge who farmed and exercised stern control over his siblings. Rural life with a hard father imbued Wade with a tough attitude toward lawbreakers. He has spent 'the bulk of his professional life prosecuting big city crooks in the biggest metropolitan area of Texas. He is regarded by some as a hunk of grinning granite who applies his country upbringing to whaling the tar out of criminals in the courtroom, an SALE Wade doesn' wholly deny.

The silver-thatched prosecutor bit off the south third of a cigar and began chewing as he settled back in his swivel chair. "Yes," he drawled, "I guess generally speaking that's true. But it depends on whether it's a first offense, and their age." Wade went on to recount examples of his benevolence to take the edge off an image as an eye-for- an-eye prosecutor. Wade is 61 years old and he said, "Maybe I'm gettin' old. But we've learned that police out chasing people, arresting them, prosecuting them, throwing them in prison wasn't cutting the crime rate.

We've got to have some innova live approaches." For tha reason, his staff of 80 assistant prosecutors has come up with a specialized crime unit to handle complex white collar crimes; a career offender section; a prosecutor's school, a "diversion" program to find alternatives to jailing young, first offenders; and other measures considered as modern as can be found. Although he doesn't favor gun controls, and "all that bleeding heart stuff," Wade advocates mandatory one- year prison terms for all offenders who use guns in commission of an offense. Had Wade prosecuted Oswald for the shooting death of President John F. Kennedy, he would have later prosecuted Oswald for wounding former Texas Gov. John Connally.

Connally and Wade roomed together in college 40 years ago. There is a growing renewal of interest in reopening the Kennedy assassination probe to answer questions critics say the Warren Commission never answered. But Wade is unmoved by the clamor. "I don't care if they reopen it or not. But they're wasting the taxpayers' money.

There is no doubt in my mind that Oswald did all of the shooting. But I've always had a gut feeling that there was somebody else behind the scene. Somebody encouraging-him. If there was, I believe it would have been a pro-Castro group. It's just hard to believe a man got up one morning and decided to kill the president," Wade said.

"It would tickle me to death if they did find somebody else, though. I'd get to try him." Henry Wade runs what is considered to be one of the best prosecutor's offices in the nation. "Only eight per cent of our felony cases are found not said. "In New York City they think they're doing something if they can get 30 per cent convicted. Hell, we average 92 per cent.

Look at Philadelphia. They're not much bigger than we are. Philadelphia has 54 courts. We've got nine. In 1973 they handled 13,000 cases.

We cleared 12,500. "Of course," said Wade, "the jury is the thing. We've got real juries down here. But the biggest thing wrong with the criminal justice system is the lack of confidence in it. Most Part One (felony) crimes are not reported because people don't think the system will do anything about it.

Then there is apathy, people don't want to take off from work to testify. Then there is fear. People are afraid to testify." Of Wade's seven brothers, five of them are Texas lawyers or judges, products of a tough father during hard times. "My daddy was a pretty strict disciplinarian. We couldn't go out for any reason after dark.

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