Pa. Handbook Offers Consumer Protection
Harrisburg AP. A 27 page booklet from the state Justice Department offers consumer protection tips from canceling purchases to evaluating charities. It explains the three day cancellation rule for home contracts, door to door sales traps, misleading free book pitches, charity checks, referral selling, and Truth in Lending disclosures.
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Harrisburg
State Justice Department
Home Builders Reveal 10 Year Warranty Plan in Lancaster
The Home Builders Association of Lancaster County unveiled a 10-year warranty for new homes claiming it is Pennsylvania’s first. Buyers get one year of workmanship and materials protection, nine years of major defect coverage, with builder-paid costs for the first two years and insurance covering later terms. Armco Project in Butler also announced a multi million dollar computer controlled reactor for stainless steel production, touted as the world's largest of its kind.
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Lancaster, Pa
Home Builders Association of
Lancaster County
Pennsylvania
Armco Project
Butler, Pa
Armco Steel Corp
Butler Works
Consumer booklet outlines credit, mail order and home buying tips
The document guides on loan availability and cost, mail order purchases, book clubs, distributorships, pyramid schemes, work-at-home plans, and employment agencies. It also offers home buying and renting advice, moving, and contract guidance, plus how to file complaints. Copies are obtainable by mail with a 20 cent postage to the Bureau of Consumer Protection in Harrisburg.
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Bureau of Consumer Protection
South Third St
Harrisburg
Donnie Todd Kidney Transplant Fund Backed by Donations
Six year old Donnie Todd near Naples Florida will receive a kidney from his father in a February transplant at Shands Teaching Hospital Gainesville. Donations have funded most medical costs with a remaining need covered by a fund trustees say has about thirty thousand dollars raised. The family asks only for prayers for a successful operation as doctors project a ninety percent success rate.
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Naples
Fla
Donnie Todd
Donnie
Robert Todd
Shands Teaching Hospital
University of Florida
Gainesville
Todd
Vietnam
Todds
Associated Press
Jerry Deason
Florida Bureau of Crippled Children and Social Security Administration
Argentina Beef Exports Seen Rising to 400000 Tons
The Agriculture Department says Argentina will export about 400000 metric tons of beef this year, up from 300000 in 1974. The rise stems from greater cooked beef purchases by the European Community and the United States, while U S imports of fresh frozen beef remain restricted due to hoof and mouth disease concerns.
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Washington
Eet
Argentina
Agriculture Department
United States
Department’s
Foreign Agricultural Service
South America
U.S
Australia
New Zealand
Marine Bank free offer ends February 28
Hurry to Marine Bank for a limited time offer to open a new checking or savings account or add to an existing savings. Get a free four piece place setting of fine china or rugged stoneware, with each $25 added to savings earning another setting at low savings prices. Accessory pieces shown are available. start saving today.
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Marine Bank
Marine
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