Show 40— Tin Herald Journal 0® Utah Sunday Dec f 1971 Credit Protection Vanguard WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Joe Doe of Oklahoma City who isn’t the handsomest or brainiest guy in town had trouble getting dates He sought the help of a computer dating center which was supposed to match men and women with similar tastes and backgrounds After some conversation he signed a $500 contract for eight dates He decided later that the women with whom he was “matched” didn't meet the agency’s claims Joe complained to Richard L Wheatley Jr Oklahoma's new administrator of consumer affairs The company moved out of Oklahoma rather quickly In another case a woman with an income of about $180 a month signed up for $10000 worth of dance lessions Unconscionable Contract Wheatley called that “a strong example of unconsciona-bility- " The woman's contract eventually was set aside by a court her money was returned and the studio was ordered to stop making contracts with persons who obviously could not pay the stated amount nor derive full benefit from the lessons Wheatley got his Job after the Oklahoma legislature enacted its version of a consumer credit code after years of painstaking work by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform Laws State (NCCUSL) The Biggest Seed You have to see it to believe it The world's largest seed is bigger than a basketball weighs as much as a collie and looks coconuts like Siamese-twi-n a “double” It is the two-lobe- d seed of a giant palm tree--a species that grows only in the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean This goliath starts life as a modest flower matures into a The double coconut or Coco de Stpound fruit after six years Mer is neither a coconut nor is it then drops to the ground and slowly takes root These giant seeds have puz- zled men for centuries In India where they occasionally wash ashore they have been given fantastic value The edible Jelly inside the husk has brought high prices as a love potion 8 Students To Observe Town’s Election Of Mayor FORT GIBSON Miss (UPI) Eight Eastern university students came to this little town in southwest Mississippi this summer to work in a Negro voter registration drive The students estimate they managed to put ISO more blacks than whites on Port Gibson’s voter rolls They have returned to see what happens Monday when the city elects a mayor for the next two years A young Negro will face the incumbent white mayor and three other blacks will be seeking posts on the six- -' member board of aldermen The other three aldermanic posts are not involved in this year's voting The election of Jimmy P Smith 24 a native of Port Gibson would mark the second time a Mack has been chosen mayor of a Mradal Mississippi — town since Reconstruction Even Helps Campaign It happened first in Fayette Just 18 miles south of here on US 61 where veteran civil rights leader Charles Even The community of 1700 was elected mayor in the Macks and 900 whites sursummer of 1969 Evers has rounded by grazing land and campaigned actively in Smith’s cotton fields in heavily Mack behalf but Smith denies he is Claiborne County has had its Evers’ handpicked candidate share of racial trouble In “Some people think Evers got April 1969 four months after me to run but it was my incumbent Mayor William P decision" Smith said “I was Gordon took office a white born and raised in this town policeman shot to death a Mack and right now it's dead I think man I can help bring it back to Smith charges Gordon called life" out the highway patrol nnd The lanky graduate of Ten- several blacks were injured nessee A&I claims no political when they tried to hold a experience But Smith said a Church meeting to protest the tour yielded shooting The white officer was promises of industry locating in exonerated town the d The Smith also holds out the Gordon manages a Chevrolet promise that if elected a dealership next door to the boycott by blacks of Claiborne County Court House white Port Gibson merchants He said he has been running a would be lifted The campaign “quiet campaign” consisting has resulted in the closing of mainly of letters to voters about 15 stores and both a $35 “About 90 per cent of the million damage suit by white blacks and whites in this town businessmen and a $253 million get along with each other" counter suit by the state Gordon said “Some blacks NAACP are pending in the have come to me and said they courts would vote for me" recent-five-sta- te white-haire- A coast-to-coa- basis of referrals to other potential customers who do not buy are easily cancelled Traveling to the People “A lot of poor people can’t come to a meeting and it isn’t easy to get around to their homes to talk to them” Wheatley said “The bus will park at a shopping center or other place where they can be informed that they do have certain rights and they do have a place to go for help” office also is Wheatley’s cooperating with the State Council on Economic Education to fit the subject into all learning levels of the public schools starting with the first grade “You’ve got to begin somewhere to teach children how to shop for credit" he said “where taxes go how much it costs to put up a public building etc No one has had CITY (UPI) -PVI returned home Paul ope n a historic and today fro-dramatic Journey to Asia ending without fanfare a trip which began with an attempt CARNIVAL on his life in Manila and weather cheered finished with mass in a as the Pope's car drove through St Peter's Square into the pagoda in Colombo About 150 persons some of Vatican The streets were empty and them holding tiny candles and near-freezi- red-roof- others stamping their feet by Dick Turner in only a small crowd greeted the pontiff when his chartered jetliner landed at Leonardo da Vinci Airport at 4:33 am at the end of a nine-da- y Journey that took him 29000 miles to eight exotic and anguished lands in Asia and the Pacific It was the ninth and longest trip since he became leader of the world's 600 million Roman Catholics in 1963 It was the most demanding of all and left as him weary and hollow-eye- d he walked across a red carpet at the airport past a cluster of newsmen and into an open limousine which quickly was closed because of the temperature There was no ceremony unlike the speeches and the bands which saw the Pope off when he left Nov 26 for Tehran Dacca Manila Samoa Sydney Jakarta Hong Kong and Ceylon The Pope spent about 15 minutes at the airport before leaving accompanied by police motorcycles their sirens screaming in the night for the Vatican Aides said he was going to sleep immediately to “Something else is he? Pity he isn't just something different!” 4 rest from the strenious trip It was a low key return —the only government representative was an undersecretary from it” desirability of federal control of consumer credit which totaled more than $J0Q billion on Sept 30 is a live topic in financial circles Boston Attorney Walter Malcolm who helped draft the state code says a stronger case can be made for letting the states The Transfers Control The states had sole Jurisdiction until 1968 when Congress passed the federal Consumer Gredit Protection Act The rules on interest disclosure and garnishment transferred about 25 per cent of the control to the federal government Malcolm The Federal Trade Commission is working on numerous projects to educate the consu- 1964 In 1968 they finally adopted the 9th draft which was endorsed shortly thereafter by the American Bar AssociaAttorney Alfred A Buerger of tion Buffalo NY chairman of the Both the National Retail NCCUSL drafting committee Merchants Association and the mer said the uniform code is based on the premise that creditors should have lelatively easy entry into the market to avoid that sophisticated monopoly borrowers should face few credit restrictions and that less borrowers knowledgeable should be protected The conference is composed of about 250 of the nation's leading judges law professors American Retail endorsed the code Federation Other supporters include Prof Paul Samuelson of the Institute of Massachusetts winner of the Technology Nobel Prize in economics for 1970 He called the code a “long overdue" development beneficial to consumers and lenders alike Opposition has come from lending institutions wishing to retain a competitive advantage under current limitations on the number of agencies allowed to offer loans Some consumer groups have also attacked the and practicing lawyers They donate their time The value of the legal talent that went into preparing the credit code runs into the millions of dollars The commissioners who are appointed by state governors considered their first draft in code COLORING CONTEST st campaign now is underway to move the model code through other legislatures Target areas include Florida minds Kansas Missouri Texas Maryland and North Carolina Today Utah is the only other state to pass the measure The uniform consumer credit code is designed to supersede the chaotic collection of state laws on th subject make competition the main regulatory agent and satisfy demands of consumer groups particularly those speaking for ghetto dwellers Flexible Authority The idea is to give administrators such as Wheatley flexible authority to deal with typM of fraud not now foreseen He also is supposed to generate programs designed to help consumers understand their rights and obligations Wheatley said that one of Oklahoma's answers was suggested by state Education Director Burton Brown Brown proposed a traveling bus n similar to the bookmobiles of city libraries A bus was and purchased fitted with 29 carpeted booths containing swivel seats and audio-visuunits A visitor can pick up a telephone and hear a explanation of the benefits afforded by the new law: —A householder may cancel a n sale within three days —Garnishment of wages is not permitted until after a court Judgment and then only in limited amount —If a purchaser defaults on a television set or other appliance the retailer can repossess it or sue but he can't do both —Discount sales made on the Prizes Prizes New Picture New Contest Each Week and Each week a $10 Gift Certificate for a Boy and a Girl redeemable well-know- at any of the below al advertisers home-solicitatio- All Premier Emilio Colombo's office The Journey was marred by the first attempt in modern times to kill a Pope Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza was pushed from the Pope only a yard away after aides noticed he was carrying a knife Mendoza who earlier said he tried to kill the Pope because he was a "symbol of superstition" later 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