HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Or.
Thursday, January 24, 19S3
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New Inferior Regulations
Stymie Swindlers Of Aged
Swindlers who cheat elderly
easterners out ot tncir savinqs
with land-selling frauds in the
cst will find it tougher to pull
off their racket under terms ol
new regulations announced by Sec
retary of the Interior Stewart L.
Wall.
The changes permit automatic
rejection of applications for small
tracts of federal land unless the
land has been opened to applica
tion. The. regulation removes one
of the major selling points which
illegitimate promoteis have used
to defraud victims. Secretary
L'dall said the change is the latest
step taken by the department over
the past 20 months to safeguard
applicants for public lands.
"Now that Congress has turned
the spotlight of publicity on a vi
cious racket in private lands in
the West we hope the public will
also wake up to the tricks some
promoters are using to fool the
public about federal public lands,"
Secretary Wall said.
Chairman Pat McNamara's spe
cial senate subcommittee on ag
inS is investigating widespread
complaints of quacks and crooks
preying on aged Americans.
Charges of mail-order frauds in
palming off useless private land
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Luck Seen
In Spades
, By OSWALD JACOBY
Written tor
rwsnaner Knlrrnrise Assn.
The tale P. Hal Sims claimed
spades were his lucky suit.
This was a sensible superstition.
Spades should be everyone's lucky
suil.
Hal had a definite allergy about
being shut out of bidding hi
spade suits, but at the same time
he was one of the first bricl;
'players to realize that you should
'.nil open the bidding with a four
:card spade suit any time you
; could start proceedings with a
; minor. On the other hand, Hal
was not afraid to bid a four
laid spade suit at a high level
if it seemed that his partner was
.likely to have spades with him
.' Hal held the South hand in a
rubber bridge game and 1 was
his fortunate partner. Obviously
Kast's jump to (our hearts would
not shut that fine South hand out
of the bidding, hut I rather fear
that most players would make
the apparently proper bid of live
clubs. Not Hal!
He bid four spades! Kast sure
'ly was short in spades. Maybe
Iwest would also. In that cac
: North would hold enough spades
. to make Hal's venture a success
r Of course, if West had doubled
: four spades the chances arc that
'. Hal would have run to his club
:uit. but West elected to pass
; and open the king of diamonds.
4 Hal had to lose the ace of
spades and one trick in c;ivh red
mil. but that lell enough tricks
.for game and rubber.
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. South West North tut
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You, South, hold:
AAK101 VA9T6 KQ104 :
What do you do?
A Bid three hearts. Tour
hearts is close second choice.
TODAY'S QUESTION
You bid three hearts and your
partner bids four ciubs. What do
you do now?
Answer Tomorrow
were among the first accusations
aired by the inquiry.
"No federal land is involved in
these cases." Secretary U d a 1 1
said, "but we want people to be
aware there are also sharp deal
ers who charge sizable fees for
filing useless applications for pub
lie land which the victims don't
have any chance whatsoever of
obtaining.
He said he believes the con
gressional inquiry will help to
warn prospective customers of
these pitfalls as well as those
directly involved in the investi
gation of private sales.
"We have been issuing warning
after warning." Secretary Udall
said, "but Senator McNamara's
subcommittee has done more to
publicize the entire field of phony
come-ons in western land than
we have been able to accomplish.
The exposes by the senators have
alerted newspapers in the East
where so many of the victims
have lived."
Virtually all of the land fraud
testimony before the senate sub
committee has concerned private
ly owned real estate w hose owners
arc accused of misrepresenting
it in mail-order sales advertise
ments.
Although federal land is not in
volved the publicity should prove
very , helpful in waking up pros
pective customers to the need to
check carefully into any pro-
motor's sale pitch about acquir
ing a bargain-rate retirement par
adise on any type of land in the
nest, Secretary Ldall said.
The Interior Department's Bu
reau of Land Management has
small tracts available for sale
from time to time in the western
public land states." Socretary
Udall said. "They are parcels
of up to five acres suitable for
residential business or community
sites. Prnmotors with an eye out
lor a fast buck have talked peo
ple into paying them for filing
applications for the land.
Thousands of gullible people
have thought they were putting
down payments on the lands when
in fact they were only pavang a
promoter to do what they can do
free for themselves or have the
government do for them free or
lor practically nothing.
"There have been floods of these
applications and the innocent peo
ple who paid their hard-earned
savings never had a chance to get
the land because it never could
qualify for "the purposes spelled
out by the law."
Secretary Udall said unscrupu
lous promoters use the same lies
in describing federal land which
they cannot sell as they use in
describing private land which they
can sell claiming that it has a
ter and other utilities, easy access
and has been laid out for occupan
cy whereas the land is usually
raw desert miles from the nearest
water and lacking in developments
that would make it habitable.
Secretary Udall said the new
order authorized the department's
Bureau of Land Management to
reject small tract applications out
of hand if the land his not already
been found to be valuable for
such disposal. And even if the
land has been so classified it will
normally be sold at public auc
tion so there will be no reason to
file an application, he said.
As the senale subcommittee in
vestigation has pointed out rnanv
of the violations are outside fed
eral jurisdiction. Secretary Udall
said. He added that he agreed
completely with the witnesses who
have emphasized that most real
estate operators are legitimate.
"I am sure they are as an
xious as we are to stop the illegit
imate operations," he said. "So
arc newspapers and magazines
who are cracking down on mis
leading advertising schemes. The
Better Business bureas are doing
a fine job too but all of us know
that more publicity is needed and
that is why the Senate inquiry is
so helpful.
Secretary Udall said there is
bipartisan support ot efforts to
modernize the antiquated public
land laws.
"But there is no single simple
cure lor crooked land promotion."
he said. "The best defense is still
the old one let the buyer beware."
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