McNeil Urges Sellers to Beware
Of Advance-Fee Racket Men
Local firms and individuals
who are considering selling a
business, farm or other prop
erty should beware of the advance-fee
racket, according to
Don McNeil, manager of the
Jackson County Chamber of
Commerce.
He said this fast mushroom
ing scheme is bilking the pub
lic of an estimated S50.000,
000 a year. How it operates
and how it may be avoided
was described by McNeal.
He said, 'Although legiti
mate real estate and business
brokers play a vital role in
our economy in furthering the
sale of property, thir respect
ed ranks have been invaded
by an unscrupulous minority
which exploits the gullible by
exacting fees in advance for
promised sales which never
materialize.
Legitimate Broker
"Generally speaking, legiti
mate real estate brokers do
not charge advance fees for
listing property for sale. Their
income, in the form of commis
sions, is earned when they ob
tain a buyer who is ready,
willing and able to purchase
the property at the agreed
upon price. However, there is
nothing wrong with an advance-fee
per se. Criticism is
directed not at the payment of
a fee in advance, but. at the
use of false and fraudulent
promises to gain the fee and
failure to perform as pro
mised." "The promoter who seeks
advance-fee as a scheme to de
fraud is primarily interested
in collecting the fees, which
may range from $100 for a
small home to $3,000 for a
business property.
"During the past few years,
phony operators have mulcted
property owners of an estimat
ed $50,000,000 a year by mak
ing such fraudulent misrepre
sentations as having a ready
buyer, promising to sell with
in 90 days, promising a refund
if no sale is made."
Lists Rules ,
McNeal listed the following
rules to observe in order to
avoid unscrupulous promoters:
Deal with a broker whose
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
This modern world note:
The Post Office department
expects to fire its first expert
mental MAIL CARRYING
rocket this year.
Washington Science Trends
(a technical publication print
ed in Washington) quotes a
post office spokesman as say
ing that Postmaster General
Summerfield has asked the dfr
fense department to let him
use obsolete Snark or Regulus
missiles for the tests.
TTmmmmmmmm.
J-- A century ago, mail
came from the East Coast to
the West Coast by sailing ship.
Delivery time was reckoned
in months-depending on the
wind and the weather.
The pony express delivery
time to weeks. Transcontinen
tal railroads reduced it to
days. Continent - spanning
planes reduced it to hours.
Guided rocket - propelled
missiles will reduce it to
MINUTES.
WHATEVER else we may
" say about this modern
world, it must be admitted
that "TIME is of the essence
thereof," as the legal docu
ments put it.
MODERN
subsidy farming
note:
The U.S. Department of Ag
ncuiture nas ust signed a
trade agreement which Cey
lon will buy FOR RUPEES,
$8,600,000 worth of U.S
wheat, flour and rice. .
A T THIS point, another
hmmmmm.
In 1957 (the latest period
for which figures are avail
able at the moment) Ceylon,
which is a little independent
country in the Indian Ocean,
just off the coast of India,
SOLD to us some 13.3 million
dollars worth of her goods,
dollars worth of her goods. In
the same year, she BOUGHT
from us 32.5 million dollars
worth of our goods.
VimiCH is to say:
' one Dougnt irom us
some two and a half times as
much as she sold to us. For
eign exchange is a complicat
ed subject, but what that
means is that Ceylonese rupees
are worth to us about what
the paper they are printed on
is worth.
But-
We have to get rid of the
wheat.
So we might as well take
Ceylonese rupees.
reliability is known by the
seller's own experience, or
from that of family or friends.
If a reliable broker is not
known, investigate the reli-
the extent to which any advance-fee
promoter has suc
cessfully performed such prof
fered services for others.
Consult an attorney before
ability of any broker before j buying or selling property
doing business.
Be on guard against any
promoter who charges a fee in
advance, discussing him with
local sources of reliable infor
mation such as financial insti
tutions, local real estate board
or chamber of commerce.
Read and understand any
contract involved in the sale
before signing.
McNeal said any property
owner in this area who be
lieves he has been swindled by
such promoters is urged to
write the Jackson county
chamber giving full par-
Verify through investigation I ticulars.
Try and Stop Me
By BENNETT CERF
FIOM A VERY OLD and very experienced German book
seller: "To write books is easy: it requires only a pencil or
a typewriter. To print books is a little more difficult because
genius so often revels m
illegible manuscripts. To
read books is more difficult
still, because of the tenden
cy to go to sleep. But the
most difficult task of all
that a mortal man can em
bark upon is to sell a book."
A college with small sala
ries for its professors but a
fine stadium for its football
team had to give up the
honor system. As the dean
ruefully explained, "Our
faculty had the honor and
our students had the system."
Shades of the Arabian Nights! Here's a show producer ordering
30 lashes for a girl in the chorus! So . . . she stopped off at the
beauty shop to pick them up.
C 1959. by Bennett Cerf. Distributed by King Features Syndicate.
, , . , i , i, BOOK
Fozn'l I
Cuba Asks Aid Of American FBI
MAYBE we'd BETTER take
A'-i- Ceylonese rupees.
Less warehouse space is re
quired to STORE them.
MORAL:
1T1
That's what happens
when the politicians under
take to repeal the law of sup
Havana -(UPD- Cuba has ask
ed for FBI aid in tracking
down a racketeer-directed
ring smuggling black market
Cuban presos into Cuba
from the United States, an
army spokesman announced
Tuesday night.
Capt. Miguel Duque de Es
trada, judge advocate at the
Cabana Fortress, said the
ring was buying up Cuban
pesos at a discount from refu
gee supporters of ousted dic
tator Fulgencio Batista and
trying to smuggle them back
into Cuba.
He said several Americans
were being held on suspicion
of smuggling and that some
"may have been used as tools
by racketeer interests in Mi
ami and other cities in the
United States."
SAUSAGE PRIZE
Huddersfield, England-(UPD
-David Burt, 21, collected a
prize for eating 44 sausages
16 feet, 6 inches of them-at
one sitting, to beat other con
test entrants. The prize: A
pound of sausage.
Oregon News Briefs
FLU HEAVY
Portland -(UPD- Influenza
has reached "epidemic levels"
in Oregon, the State Board of
Health said today. In a seven
day period ending last Satur
day 1488 cases' of flu were
reported, nearly double the
720 cases for the previous
week. It was the highest for
any period since the week
ending Dec. 7, 1957,. during
the Asian flu epidemic.
Legislature Re-Enacted
Oregon City -(UPD This Wil
lamette river city, sight of
the first territorial legislature
of Oregon, today welcomed
members of the 1959 state
House and Senate.
The legislature was to meet
here this afternoon to re-enact
procedures of the 1859
Territorial legislature.
Tickets were reported at a
premium. There are 1600
spectator seats but the de
mand was about 10 times
that, officials said.
LARGEST WAREHOUSE
Portland-(UPD-A warehouse
called the nation's largest un
der one roof was opened
here this week by Waterways
Terminal company to hold
products from six mills of the
Crown Zellerbach Corp. The
,1253-foot long building is 136
feet wide and has inside load
ing space for 35 rail cars and
46 motor trucks. Seven barg
es also can unload at one
time.
Mrs. Thompson Here
To Instruct Blind
Mrs. Vera Thompson, field
representative, Oregon Com
mission for the Blind, Port
land, is in Medford to give
individual and class instruc
tion in braille, crafts, typing
and homemaking.
Mrs. Thompson explained
that the commission also have
a restoration program for per
sons with low vision needing
special attention who are not
in a position to receive ade
quate medical attention.
Persons interested in in
struction or more information
regarding the commission's
programs may contact Mrs.
Thompson at SPring 2-8034.
She will remain in Medford
through Thursday, March 26.
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BUSINESSMAN DIES
Dallas, Ore. -(UPD- Leif S.
Finseth, 70, local business
man and former member of
the State Board of Higher
Education, died Tuesday.
Finseth, who served a total
of 17 years on the Board, al
so was twice a Republican
legislator from Polk county
and for 14 years was mayor
of Dallas.
Finseth was past grand
master of Oregon Masons and
a past grand chancellor of the
state Knights of Pythias.
TO TRANSPLANT SMELT
Portland -(UPD- The Oregon
Fish commission said today
smelt would be transplanted
from the Lewis river in Wash
ington to Oregon's Necanium
river near Seaside to see if a
run could be started in that
stream. Smelt also will be re
leased in the Stillaguamish
river near Seattle.
STRETCHING THINGS
London, England -(UPD- Pub
lic investors, speculating on
the shape of things to come,
responded to an offer to sell
450.000 shares in a company
called Corsets Silhouette
with applications for 14,750,
0C0 shares,' the company said
today.
Dr. Diebel Named
Director of Area
Lecture Program
Ashland - Dr. Clarence E.
Diebel, professor of science at
Southern Oregon college, has
been appointed one of four
U.S. regional directors for the
traveling Science Teacher
Demonstration. Lecture Pro
gram sponsored by the Na
tional Scienct foundation, Dr.
Elmo N. Stevenson, SOC pres
ident, announced today.
As director of a six-state
area composed of Washing
ton, Oregon, Idaho, Montana,
Utah, and Wyoming, Dr. Die
bel will supervise the training
and travel itineraries of 20
carefully selected science
teachers from his headquar
ters at the University of Ore
gon. Appointees will undergo a
three-month intensive train
ing period beginning in June,
Dr. Diebel explained, which
will be specifically designed
to equip the traveling teach
ers with the latest scientific
information, laboratory tech
niques, and demonstration ap
paratus to help better the
quality of the science pro
grams in the schools visited.
Training periods will in
clude lectures, laboratory ex
periences, field trips, library
assignments, and actual con
struction or assembly of dem
onstration apparatus to be
used in the high schools.
Practice lecture-demonstrations
will be given to high
school classes within a rea
sonable radius of the univer
sity. Objectives of the projected
two-year program as set forth
in the terms of the NSF grant
are to stimulate the interest
and spread the influence of
competent teaqhers in science;
to encourage the building of
simple laboratory apparatus in
smaller and poorly equipped
high schools; to provide a
deeper appreciation of science
to secondary school students
and to help motivate compe
tent young people into suit
able scientific careers.
Made From Application
Selection of the participat
ing schools will be made
from applications received on
the basis of the best geograph
ic distribution in the region
and to include schools of all
sizes and characteristics.
Other program centers are
located at Oklahoma State
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Wednesday, March 18, 1959 5
STORE CHANGES HANDS
The Griffin Creek store at
the corner of Orchard home
dr. and South Stage rd, has
been purchased from Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Chisholm, it was
announced this week by Mrs.
Vera Evans, a former resident
of the valley who recently re
turned. She and her husband
will operate it in the same
manner and with the same
policies as those of the Chis
holms', she said.
STEAL BARN DOORS
San Bernardino, Calif. -(UPD
-Mrs. Inez Hoagland report
ed to the sheriff Tuesday that
thieves stole the two doors off
her barn. No horses were
missing.
university, Michigan State uni
versity and the Oak Ridge
Institute of Nuclear Studies.
Prior to the current school
year, Dr. Diebel was on leave
two years from the college
while working on the pilot
NSF program for Oregon
which resulted in the current
expansion and emphasis upon
the improvement of science
instruction in high schools.
Similar pilot programs were
carried on in three other
On the staff at SOC since
1953, Dr. Diebel formerly
taught at Eugene High school
and received his advanced de
gree from the University of
Oregon.
Bridge Tournament
Winners Announced
Seattle -(UPD Mrs. Mary
Jane Farell, Los Angeles, and
Alvin Roth of Washington,
D.C., Tuesday night won the
national mixed pair cham
pionships in the spring Na
tional tournament of the
American Contract Bridge
league.
The winners finished with
487 Vz points.
Mr. and Mrs. Lew Mathe of
Los Angeles were second
with 472 Vz points and third
place was . taken by Mrs.
Samuel Watanabe of Honolu
lu and Ivan Erdos, Los Ange
les, with 472 points.
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