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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 7, 1959)
'.1T''.'..ii,,'',,rii,fM,''i! "r THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1959 PAGE 4 D HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON Swindlers Rob Old Folks With 'Extra Income' Tale ' WASHINGTON NEA Swin dlers are growing rich by shat tering the nest eggs of old folks. Taking advantage of an elder ly person's desire to increase his " meager income or pension, the swindlers promise to set him up in a money-making enterprise. All the victim has to do is make one "small" investment. The result is that thousands of oldsters, many of them feeble, lose their life sav ings each year. These rackets have become so prevalent that the Senate Per manent Investigating subcommit- tee will soon hold hearings on a special anti-fraud bill. One nationwide fraud aimed at old folks is the vending machine racket. Shysters send their vic tims glowing reports about big profits that can be mane trom the mechanical venders. For investments ranging from $600 to $3,000, depending upon the number of machines purchased, (hey promise returns of up to $5,000 a year. Often they promise to help put the machines in mor. ey-making locations which are ad vertiscd as the owner's exclusivo territory. It's not until the victim shells out his money that he discovers he has been taken for a sucker. In addition to learning that vend ine machines don't begin to make the expected profits, he often finds that the company's promise to lo cate them is phony. Even if shy sters do keep their end of the bargain, they often pick sites like out-of-the-way garages ana ware houses. Harry A. Babcock, executive di rector of the Federal Trade Com mission, explains that the scheme has great apnea! for old persons. "They welcome the idea of serv icing vending machines because they arc told it requires only a few hours of work each day, and that it is within their physical canacity. he says. "They also are led to believe they will be able to earn several hundred dollars a month on an Investment of two or three thous and dollars. ' To them this would be a Godsend. But their hopes of such profits are soon shattered, and they find that their savings have gone for a sorry investment." Babcock also declares, "To me It's a mean, dirty trick to sell out old people. It's a cowardly sort of thing. And I have a low boiling point for the people who do it." i In the past 21 months, th FTC has forced 14 vending ma chine companies to stop phony ad vertising. Several other companies are now under investigation. Annlhor rarkpt which fleeces manu nlrlstnr tins hpfn duhhpd the "Vanity Press." This swindle convinces the victim that he is di 7t Ml, .. VENDING MACHINE is child's play for this lass, but it's tough on old folks who fall for shyster's promises of big profits, they can make from the mechanical venders. School Aides Face Recall LITTLE ROCK, Ark. 'API -Three segregationist members of the Little Rock SchooUBoard to day faced the threat of recall in the wake of a purge of 44 teach ers in the city's integration-troubled school system. About 400 patrons of the Forest Park Elementary school Wednes day night shouted approval of a plan to seek a recall election against Board President Ed I. Mc kinley and members Robert Las tcr and Ben Rowland. McKnloy, Lasler and Rowland, acting alter three other board members walked out of a meeting in protest, voted Tuesday .not to renew the contracts of 44 teach ers, including the Forest Park principal, Mrs. Frances S. Wood. Acting cs the Forest Park Par ent-Teacher Assn., the group first adopted resolutions censuring the three segregationist board mem bers for the purge and commend ing Mrs. Wood. Then acting as school patrons they voted to cir culate the recall petitions under a segregationist-backed 19o8 law, de signed to facilitate removal of board members suspected of inte grationist tendencies. The three have "refused to give specific reasons for the purge, ex cept to say that some teachers were fired fo "remarks they maae about integration. the greatest writer In the history of American literature: Through the use of brochures or newspaper and magazine ads swindlers invite self-styled authors to submit their manuscripts for evaluation. They promise to pub lish the manuscript in book form if it is acceptable., Of course, the manuscript Is al most always acceptable. In fact, the victim is sometimes told it is the best thing that the firm's exec utive vice-president has read in months. Then the shysters explain that all the victim has to do to get his book in print is to "share in the publishing expense. For investments ranging from $!i0 to $6,000, he is led to believe that huge royalties are a strong possibility. The gimmick is that instead of sharing the publishing costs, the victim is actually pay ing all expenses plus a profit to the company. The phony home-nursing course is a racket which victimizes el derly women who are still active and want to work. For $150 to $250, a woman buys a nursing correspondence course and a prom ise of employment after she fin ishes it. After she completes the course and receives a diploma, she learns that no hospital recog mzes it. ' . Investigators explain that many firms which advertise vending ma chines, publishing services and cor respondence courses are legiti mate. To find out which ones are not, they advise you to contact your local Better Business Bu reau, Chamber of Commerce or the FTC. 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