Show t - 7t'egVa:Vici-4---:0:catt-yr-014ilw--040-- rj t - '::":gtr'r:Z44?'1W"111-10-or- ‘ a Ur ' 4 D16 The Salt Lake Tribune Keep Tabs on Credit Bureaus? By Dave Skidmore PRESS WASHINGTON — Consumers dunned by bill collectors denied loans and fired from jobs because of mistakes in their credit records have urged Congress to rewrite the law governing private reporting agencies g "A honest employee shouldn't have to defend his good name against unforeseeable false information" James R Wiggins Jr told the House Banking subcommittee on consumer affairs 14t week The District of Columbia resident whose middle name is Russell told panel members he lost his job as a sales representative for a cable television company in January 1990 The Atlanta-base- d Equifax Services Inc in a check done for his employer confused him with 27- year-ol- d James Ray Wiggins who had pleaded guilty of a charge of attempting to possess cocaine Equifax one of three large companies that collect and disseminate credit and employment information admitted making a mistake but said it promptly hard-workin- I corrected it "There was an error and we regret that" said Equifax spokeswoman Tina Buckholtz "Any inconvenience consumers experience due to inaccuracy is unacceptable and we do our best to rectify anything like that We have a vested interest in supplying accurate information to our customers That's our dress at about the same time he moved to Colorado Even though it took him nine months to clear his record succeeding only three days before last week's hearing Evans said he feels lucky He had purchased a home and car immediately after moving to Colorado "If this had happened four months earlier I probably would still be living in an apartment" he said Four House members — Reps Richard H LehJ Charles Matthew J Rinaldo man — and Clay E Shaw Jr E Schumer have proposed legislation to update the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1970 Among their proposals are providing consumers with a free copy of their credit report on request requiring prompt correction of errors requiring credit bureaus to notify consumers after adverse information is placed on their record and prohibiting the release of information for marketing lists unless consumers consent Several members of the consumer affairs subcommittee cautioned against cracking down too hard Making it difficult for lenders to get credit reports will only make it harder for most consumers to get credit they said "I would caution against penalizing an industry that has been so crucial to our economic growth over the years" said Rep Carroll Hubbard Jr DR-F- la Kr Kurth president of Associated Credit Bureaus Inc a trade association acknowledged the business had problems that needed Walter product" Gregory N Evans told the panel he started getting at his Englewood Colo home last September from bill collectors about a $1776 overdue rd bill There was only one problem He had DiscoverCard a The credit card company apparently had mixed 40nm up from another Gregory N Evans who had moved from Los Angeles leaving no forwarding ad Disco:-verea- 1 VVANN-s----f- credit-reportin- R g correcting However Jean Noonan associate director of the Federal Trade Commission said consumer unrest with credit reporting agencies is growing Nine thousand complaints were filed with the commission last year a 50 percent increase from 1989 she said SEC Seeks to Protect Yanks' Investments Continued From start in July will involve closing several portals of the abandoned Consumers mine owned by the Blue Blaze Coal Co Another company named Blue Blaze plans to open another mine in the area Huntington Canyon Emery County $255000 The work includes reclamation and portal closure at eight abandoned coal mines Larincluding the Larsen-Rigbsen Lester's Trail Canyon Deer Creek (not the mine by the same name and area operated by Utah D-1- Byron Howard Christian- sen and Electric Lake Ms Wright said work has been postponed until fall to allow the Golden Eagles to leave their nests US Quadruples Whiskey Exports THE ASSOCIATED ' US lawsuits "By agreeing to reduce the cost and timing barriers to extending an offering in the United States the commission hopes to encourage more foreign companies to extend such offers to US shareholders" Breeden said The SEC proposal is the third in a series designed to remove barriers to international securities trading Already approved in the past month were limited after-hour- s trading on the New York Stock Exchange and a relaxation of documentation rules for large Canadian companies making securities offerings in the United States US investors are routinely excluded from multinational tender offers because bidders are wary of REUTER NEWS SERVICE WASHINGTON — The Securities and Exchange Commission last week proposed rules that would help Americans who own stock in foreign companies profit from corOrate takeovers ' Currently foreign bidders tend to exclude Americans from tender offers meaning US shareholders owning foreign stock usually have no choice but to sell below the offer price Last year more than 600 mergers and acquisitions involved nonUS companies and US shareholders were excluded from most of those deals said SEC chairman Richard Breeden is currently required before US investors in foreign companies can tender their SEC approval shares The latest proposal subject to 90 days of public comment would let foreign bidders use their home-countr- y disclosure documents to extend their buyout offers to US PRESS WASHINGTON — Exports of bourbon whiskey quadrupled in the 1980s with the help of the US government the Agriculture Department says Fifty-onpercent of the exports go to Japan There young businessmen account for much of the consumption unlike the United States where the typical bourbon drinker 35 to 50 years old is middle-ageOver the past two years USDA has provided $5 million for bourbon in its Targeted Export Assistance Program used by distillers for foreign advertising and promotion AMOUR! MOTH shareholders Under the proposed rules foreign bidders may also be exempt from SEC offering rules if Americans hold less than 10 percent of the securities for which an offer is being made But if one institution holds most of that 10 percent the bidder would still be subject to SEC rules SPACt OF PANDA 30 IN ANY Please Divisien 41 9: ObjectVisionTm 1 CONSTRUCIION IN FORMALITY OR ANY Af It! We D(1 FHAFa2IIIItcsn CONVENTIONAL and Feld itotvws From Modgego NON STANDARD PIO stak Fast Aprovrat ro Closissi: cod approx For Post 0r Or OroOtani whkrt van be ovartorrhad Por ?higher debt to rneorro starations for illoft standard propoorty:::::::: :::5: ANY :::: Orer SolOtytet1Før 00"164 No Chairps OR AU tEcHNIckrry In BEST INTEREST OF THE STATE I Management )455 DC Cordos 4137001$1 AND Mitne N ': YOUR BAG pros to submit 4 I rit te :' al :10 Eatrt21:St-S011- : M t NOTEBOOK $369500 eso7 1 Special: $279800 Intel 80386SX 20MHz CPU Display 3 Hour Battery Life Power Conservation Mode Quick Charge VGA-Backl- it 2-- Full Travel 1MB RAM stale -- Keyboard (Expandable to 5MB) 82-Ke- y VERFJE EVER fog EXceRence v 60MB Internal Hard Drive 144MB 35" Internal Diskette Drive 80387SX Math Coprocessor Socket DOS 69 Milne Price WY Uton 114114 Toloplieno 5314282 7z-v- 401 Included lbs (Including Battery) I illsossoonent IOLA - FACILITIES OF A Whcitever s Faulty MUM be accessible to the hen& moat tit Mal zoning remaremenia Escapee must confonn to NJPA Me Health Handicapped Energy ((BC and al other appkgil NM slaw dards stM codes md local cods NEE WINDOWS et Focilitios Construction NWT - 24 Ors List: ereolieNs he t0 $tate Office &Aiding to epbora I e: 1391 TEMPO Facilities must conform to the IleoM Energy NEP& UBC and aN other applicabie state stan dards state codes and local codes Facilities must meet ail zoning requirements AN submiltais feast be based on design by licensed ArchitectEmptier and will be reviewed and approved Jests It with o b - cried halms must PROPOSAL 1 IlleSCBLLANEOUS: oilmen yews at Facilities Cenetructien 4110 State Office Raiding San Lake City Utah $4114 telephone: 33134282 'non as possible As t My OR TO WAIVE Jame wit renewal options parking SouNi rib PROPOSALS AND CHURCHES LAMM Twine) vows MINIMUM OCCUPANCY: Nome (3) SPAM Anototinwiew 5000 gross sem feet of and ousted arculabon and eupport space FROM SCHOOLS AWAY LEWIN Tope Three MOO - stt arts an - Within - vilk0 jc ‘ fj to KO East MANAGEMENT RESERVES THE RIGHT TO REJECT Mail geeing Proposais MN be acrapteo tor nevi or onsting space which meet State specilicabons LOATH Murray Utah - Pmposais may be submitted tot a Moiety to be located irMhin one of the Meowing areas a) STATE STRAIT Ant in an wee bounded by 4650 South on the north to 6400 South on the south and 300 ES11 on the east to West on the west b) BOO EAST OIL in an area bounded by Temp 4650 South on the north to 5710 South on the south and 1000 East on the oast to 800 East on We west If a proposal is submitted tor both areas the State shoe have Me Opium to amen either site This 0oee net preclude proposal being submitted for Noel tiles SITE letiST BE LOCATED Al LEAST 600 FEET West 4o 1 I il more feet Tweive resemed (12) FIKITIO moms to addmonal pubic parking DIVISION Space Selling LIAM ancuLANtoui by DECK THE DIVISION OF FACILITIES CONSTRUCTION AND MANAGEMENT RESERVES THE Alsocr TO REJECT ANY OR ALL PROPOSALS OR TO WAIVE ANY FORMALITY OR TECHNICALITY IN ANY PROPOSAL IN BEST INTEREST OF THE STATE Borland's ' Renal OF OCCUPANCY: The Stott of Utak Division of Facilities Construction and Manaciament requests aN pinions intweeted in leasing retail selling mice to the State to submit a probate' bY 210 Pm ANT 10 1991 Spectfications and proposal packaoss tor azieting facilities are avaloble at the Division of Facilities Construebon and Management Of at the Deportment of Alcoholic Beverage Control Specification and proposal packages for nee construction are available It the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control 1625 South 906 West San Lake City Utah for farther ellen at (801) Tetepitone DiOnit R information OF 3450 Approalmaisty Sell Lake City WM bounded by IMO North PARSONS STATE OF UTAH ADVERTISEMENT FOR SPACE OF t Office PACK OF LOCATKilk Bourbon whiskey is named for Bourbon County Ky where it was first made in 1789 by a Baptist minister Elijah Craig who used corn instead of rye or barley PROPOSAL IDEN11F1CATIOtt DMUS 107-- N PROPOSAL ICIOMMCATIOtt DPC1091064 Tyra Of PACK " ' The Stale of Utah Division of Emil Mee Construction and Management requests ad perms interested in lemma office specs to the State to submit a proposal by 300 pm June 12 1901 Specifications and forms for submitbng proposals ate available at the Division of Facilities Construction and Management Contact Judy Dittman Office of Crime Victin Reparations at 1001) 53114033 (Cr questions regarding the program requirements Of the Department d AMOUNT Mortga es STATE OF UTAH ADVERTISEMENT FOR SPACE e Type canyons and Millcreek Canyon This: work makes up the final $150000': of the $400000 project The state: AMR progrAm which has complete ed work at about 156 sites in these canyons intends to finish 269 more this year Sanpete and Sevier counties $200000 This project involves portal closing and reclamation at five abandoned coal mine sites including the Red Creek Clear Creek and Sevier Valley mines along the southside of Salina Canyon and Indian Pete near Wales and Morrison near Sterling both in Sanpete County Union Pacific mine near Scofield Carbon County first phase $250000 This involves extinguishing a fire that began sometime between 1936 and 1942 by sealing all surface subsidence holes and cracks with a foaming cement A crew from the state AMR program is assessing the extent of the fire and the extinguishing process is expected to begin in fall Completion of the Wasatch project involving closure of entrances to shafts of former gold and silver mines in Big and Little Cottonweod 3 y Power) I Targeted for Mine Revisions THE By Gem! 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