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Car Finance Investigation
Slated By Assembly Group
contract, said that the car would est on his payments, $65 (or aliiad to pay back the i'MO loan andjtee consider measures to protect
have cost Fleckensticn a total ot mechanical insurance clause, plus got only $100 (or his old car. people "who aren't in a position
$3,911, including nearly $ti00 inter- license and registration. He also' Groulx asked that the commit-' to tako care of thr-r-;-1- ."
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Everything cooks better in a
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the state after hearing the story1
Assembly committee has agreed
ot a young man who wanted a
to investigate auto financing in
onvertible so badly that he didn't
look at the sales contract until
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"Oh, no, sir, I'm not in a hurry. This just happens to
be my after-five coalume!"
Apprehension Is Growing
Under Indifference Screen
. PARIS (UPI) - The taxi-driver
(hrugged his shoulders in typi
cal Gallic (ashion and said: "It
doesn't look good, but somehow
Ex-Speaker
Gives Backing
To Lodge
WASHINGTON (UPI) Rep.
Joseph W. Martin Jr., (ormer
GOP House leader and one-time
tpeaker, today threw his support
to Ambassador Henry Cabot
Lodge (or the GOP vice presi
dential nomination.
Martin, chairman of the last
five Republican conventions, said
he would discuss the matter will)
Lodge, U. S. ambassador to the
United Nations. Lodge has said
he would not talk politics while
he held his diplomatic post. '
Lodge said in New York City,
"Mr. Martin is very complimen
(ary and I am grateful he (eels
that way about me, even though
I am not a candidate in any way,
thape or manner."
The 75-year-old Martin listed
Treasury Secretary Robert B
Anderson as his close second
choice (or the vice presidential
nomination. Bui he said he was
net sure Anderson would accept
the nomination.
The veteran Massachusetts Re
publican also said it would be
"very difficult" for the GOP to
recapture control of the Senate
and House in the November elec
tiens.
Martin made the statements to
a United Press International re
porter in one of his rare inter
views concerning politics since he
was ousted as House GOP leader
last year.
' The Republicans replaced Mar
tin as leader with Rep. Charles
A. Halleck (Ind.), who has staled
publicly that he would like to be
the GOP vice presidential candi
date. Martin did not mention Hal
leck as one of his choices for the
nomination.
things will get straightened out
we hope."
Then, as an afterthought, he
added a French expletive which
translated into a four-letter Anglo-
Saxon word.
He was commenting on the ex
plosive situation in Algeria.
The comment was typical of the
reaction of the man-in'the-strect
today to ' the sharpening crisis
between ' President Charles do
Grille and the French insurgent
colons" m Algiers.
Paris HscK was calm there
was none of the turmoil as in
the 1958 revolt which overthrew
the Fourth Republic and cata
pulted De Gaulle inlo power. On
the surface, life in Paris appear
ed unchanged.
But under this screen of near
indi(fercnce, . apprehension w a' s
growing.
. For days,; the man-in-the-strect
had been left guessing at the
possible outcome of the Algiers
settlers' revolt. Until Thursday
night, nobody in authority here
had even hinted at what De
Gaulle might do.
But the sudden and dramatic
developments Thursday confront
ed the French people with the
realization that a showdown could
trigger a civil war.
De Gaulle has been playing his
cards close to his chest, with only
a few of his most trusted lieu
tenants in the know.
It is apparent that (he over
whelming majority of the people
of France are solidly behind De
Gaulle and have no sympathy for
the insurgent Algerian settlers
and resent the wavering attitude
of the army in Algeria.
SW Meet Set
By Demos
ALBIQUE.RQUE, N. M. AP-
That old Western pastime the
horse trade comes into its own
in Albuquerque this week.
Top Democrats from the 13
Western slates, including Hawaii
and Alaska, gather Feb. 5-7 to
ruugh hew some proposed Western
planks (or the Democratic nation
al convention.
On hand to help with the whit
tling, and to woo the booming
Wests big bloc o( 271 convention
votes will be the top lineup ot the
Democratic presidential hopefuls.
Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass).
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson cD-Texl
and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey
D-Minnl will be on hand. So will
California's favorite son possibili
ty. Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown.
Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo)
is trying to arrange a planned
Kansas trip so he, also, can be on
hand, say officials of the Western
conference.
Those invited to the conference
include the West's potent bloc of
33 Democratic U. S. representa
tives, 20 senators and seven governors.
Harry S. Truman, still titular
head of the party, will attend to
make an address Saturday night,
Feb. 6.
Although the conference doesn't
formally open until Friday, the
Western Democratic committees
on national resources, small busi
ness and transportation have
scheduled closed Thursday meetings.
Saturday, the committees will
report to the general session of
the conference. The Natural Re
sources Committee is headed by
C. Girard Davidson, national com
mitteeman from Oregon.
Runaway Law
To Be Probed
CORVALL1S (AP) - The Ben
ton,, County Court was asked Wed
nesday to adopt a measure to
prevent dogs from running at
large.
The request came from Sheriff
C. N. Lilly, who said that
recent weeks there have been
more complaints about dogs chas
ing livestock, damaging property
and scaring children.
The court promised to study the
matter.
Assemblyman Thomas M. Rees
iD-Los Angeles) announced that
his: Finance and Insurance Com
mittee would begin a subcommit
tee investigation next summer. He
said that he had heard too many
leports of buyers being bilked.
Richard Groulx of the Alameda
County Labor Council told the
young man's story Thursday to
another subcommittee session. He
said the youth was Robert Fleck
ensticn, 22, a factory worker at
San Leandro. He said the conver
tible was a 1959 Chevrolet lmpala
cn the floor at Fairway Motors
in Hayward. .
Groulx read a signed statement
from Fleckensticn in which the
youth said: "I first went to Fail
way Motors to look at a new au
tomobile and I talked to a man
who quoted me a price of $2,795.
Fleckensticn, who earns less
than $2 an hour, Groulx said, re
turned the next night with his
wife and learned from another
salesman that the price had in
creased to $2,995. He o((ered the
salesman a $300 deposit that he
was then trying to borrow from
the Bank of America in San Le
andro. The salesman promised
him $200 for his old car, a 1950
Mercury.
Both the Bank of America and
the American Trust Company re
fused Fleckcnstien's request for
a loan, but the salesman took him
to the Dynan Finance Company
Oakland.
The company loaned Flecken
stien the money, using the furni
ture in his home as collateral
They did so, the youth said, "even
though we had told them the turn
iture was not paid for, to which
ihey said nothing."-'
With the , deposit assured, the
salesman wrote the sales contract
dated Jan. 14, 1960. He told Fleck
ensticn the first payment would
be due in 60 days.
"That evening," Fleckensticn
said, "when we got home from
showing the family the new car
and some of the excitement had
worn off, we decided to look over
the contract." .
He said that a special payment
of $100 was due Feb. 3, I960, and
that a regular payment of S110.75
was due Feb. 29. Groulx said that
Fleckenstien had not expected to
pay that much (or 30 months and
that he would probably lose the
car.
Groulx, quoting from the sales
Good Advice
LOS ANGELES (AP)-The Rt.
Rev. James A. Pike, - Episcopal
bishop of the diocese of California,
has given a ministers' conference
this advice: "Thou shall read thy
newspaper carefully . every day."
"This plus general reading, in
dividual pastoral care and con
tinued study of the Bible and
theological works are the best prep
aration for preaching," Bishop
Pike said Thursday.
REMEMBRANCE
CASTLETON, Vt. (UPI) -Charles
M. Cook, a West Coast
meat packing executive, willed
this town $15,000 although he had
not visited it since he left as a
youngster.
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