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Show Page Prove HERALD :6-T- HL L tah Monda. .November 20 ii78 Ingenuity Overcomes Washer, Dryer Delivery Problem Harlcw purchased wife, but sisting was dealer. I qua Ha a Havasupai Indian, a clothes washer and dryer for his was placed on a wooden skid and puiled by L quaila s horse, Sparkplug, lower left photo. As J left, the Speed Queer, In bottom right photo. Harlow L quaila. right l and his wife. Nora, note with the dryer who helpec accompiisb the task ibt I quaila s are the first residents of the village to have a laundry washer and dryer And being the parents of 10 children they will put the appliances to good and frequent use Most of the 330 residents of Supai have done without modern conveniences for the beauty of their valley home caned between the walls of the Grand Canyon I PI Telephotosi the problem was getting them delivered to his Supai, Ariz., village borne in the bottom of the Grand Canyon The solution was a helicopter, dispatched b the appliance dealer in Flagstaff and the McGraw F.dlaon Co. of Ripon. Hit., manufacturer of Speed Queen appliances Slung beneath a helicopter, upper left photo, a dryer is flown into the depths of tiie Grand Canyon. From air power to horse power, the dryer I Bob Shafer. IV mm m JSV "re"''y UTAH OFFICE SUPPLY Hearing Aid Fraud Curbs Requested WASHINGTON (UPI) Citing widespread fraud within the industry, the Federal Trade Com-- ; mission staff has recommended that consumers be given the right to . cancel purchases of hear-- ing aids withint 30 days, and salesmen be made to stop masquerading as medical experts. Hearing aid manufac- turers disagreed with the report and charged that FTC investigators drew "unsupportable conclusions" that would only result in more regulations and higher costs for consumers. The report said experiences ... of unusable hearing aids, purchased at great finan cial sacrifice, and of a in cold canvassing, falsemultitude of abusive ly disguised telephone sales transactions and 'county health surveys' sales tactics" forced the and pseudo hearing aid FTC to take strong ac- market testing programs, tion. the most common ... tacThe study said some tics are ads offering sellers use "master hear-in- 'free' tests, booklets, as hearing aid replicas or aids" demonstrators for listening devices. "The typical consumer customers, but the device the consumer finally buys responds to these ads is technologically inferior without any idea that a to the original; some salesperson will perused hearing aid s are sold sonally deliver the as new; some salesmen promised 'free' booklet claim the devices will along with a high presrestore hearing to sure sales pitch," the "dead" ears; and others report said. claim that the devices If the commission will slow down the adopts the staff recomdeterioration of hearing. mendations and issues "Although the record regulations, it would be the second government indicates that some sellers go as far as to engage agency to move against the hearing aid industry in recent years. In 1977 the Food and Drug Administration adopted a measure requiring consumers purchasing the devices to show prescription-lik- e forms from their physicians indicating that their ing misleading names to hearing could be im- describe themselves and their firms." proved by an aid. The National Hearing Americans buy 650.000 Aid aids at each vear. Society, which reprehearing a cost of from $300 to $400 sents the dealers, said. each, or total sales of "It is unfortunate that from $195 million to $260 hearing impaired Amerimillion, the report said. cans may be saddled with Most are bought directly an unnecessary regulafrom dealers, about half tion due to the staff's of them in the home. refusal to respect the I'nder the proposed evidence and to recognize FTC rules the consumer that the need for uncould cancel the deal precedented regulation within 30 davs of the simply does not exist." g Strike Job Losses Reports Unreliable - WASHINGTON (UPI) During the long coal strike last winter, the administration asked a com puter how many people might be thrown out of work due to the walkout. The computer said the "best case" estimate was 27,000 and the "worst case" was 3 5 million. But all the public was told - as well as the judges who were was asked to issue injunctions against the strike the higher figure The actual job loss was 25,500 That apparent public relations gambit, said a congressional investigator, widened an existing energy "credibility gap" that might have dangerous consequences in the next emergency. J. Dexter Peach, director of the General Accounting Office's energy division, told a House energy and power subcommittee Friday the did not act "as prudently as it could have, given the wide range of information available to it." "We believe that as a minimum, the administration should have informed the public as to the actual unemployment ... In contrast, however, it appears that the credibility gap regarding energy information has been widened. This could make it difficult to obtain public cooperation in future energy emergencies which may be more severe." Lyle Gramley, one of President Carter's economic advisers who participated in the unemployment forecast, testified the economic situation would have been far worse than it was, had the strike continued much longer. "sure-fir- e statistical Gramley said there are no events and highly "novel methods for predicting such uncertain outcomes." In other testimony, Deputy Energy Secretary John to O'Leary said the government completed plans reserves to Defense from oil Department divert domestic use if the Iranian oil strike had not ended date if dissatisfied, and get most of the purchase price back The rule would also require salesmen to make for home appointments visits and "to disclose their status as sellers and prohibit sellers from uspurchase Rapped MOSCOW (UPI Former astronaut i presents INFLATION -Sen. John Glenn savs Soviet insistence on sending coded data from its outer space tests prevents ade- ITER! quate monitoring and could prevent completion of a new SALT treaty. Glenn, part of a Senate delegation that toured the Soviet Union for a week, told his colleagues the coding of telementrv data from space goes to the very heart of verifying compliance in any new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty the first Glenn, American to orbit the earth Feb. 20, 1962, said the Soviets were increasing their coding during test flights and called the issue a "very major stickv point" in current SALT-talks. 2 First Security Money Market Certificates Pay Highest Bank Interest Rate short term 26 weeks certificates. Minimum deposit $10,000. Each depositor's account insured to $40,000 Ask for current rate at your nearby 8 nylon ' First First First First First Security Security Security Security Security federal regulations require a substantial penalty tor early withdrawal Bank of Utah. N A Bank of Idaho, N A State Bank, Salt Lake City. Ulah Bank of Orem. N A First Security First Security First Security First Security Slate Bank of Kaysville Members FDIC Bank of Murray. 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