Help Mate Readers Seek Refunds and Home Work Schemes
Consumer column recounts a Hotpoint washer leak and refund dispute with a store owner after multiple repairs. GE and General Blechie offer opinions on drainage adequacy. Also reviewed is The Fred Allen Company home work scheme with a $10 test kit deposit and 50 cent commissions, plus CBEB cautions on home employment schemes.
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J. W. Gillespie
Fred Allen Company
Warsaw
Ind
E.S
Fred Allen
Allen
Council of Better Business Bureaus
Reporteo
CBEB
Lead poisoning charges at NL Industries plant
Vernon lead exposure claims by union leaders, with 100 workers in various stages of poisoning and emissions reported as 37 times the legal limit. Officials confirm citations for failing to control lead pollutants. labor and APCD pursue abatement and possible $6,000 daily fines. NL declines comment.
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Department of Labor
Gilbert Gereia
APCD
Ralph George
Wanly Cunsel
George
Derby cheater to be tried by Boulder ski boot boss
Robert Lange Sr., president of Larne Ski Boot Co, admitted he urged his nephew James Gronen to fit an electromagnet in a soap box racer to gain a faster start at the 1973 National Soap Box Derby in Akron. He seeks a nonjudicial adjustment to avoid a conviction, with Oct. 2 court return after prosecutors and defense weigh recommendations.
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Boulder
Colo
UPI
Robert Lange Sr
James Gronen
Holmes
Lange
Akron
Oho
Tago
Record book wrong Monopoly duration corrected
VANCOUVER Washington UPI Twelve high school students misread a word record for Monopoly and found they were 400 hours short of the Guinness mark. A Parker Brothers spokesman said the 1972 list misstated the record at 127 hours 38 minutes and that the correct unlimited duration is 820 hours set in Danville California in 1971. Guinness editors will issue a correction.
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Vancouver
Wash
UPI
Danville
Call
Calif
Parker Brothers Co
Guinness
Skylab crew scans Sargasso Sea for future food source
Skylab astronauts led by Bean Garriott and Lousma use the space camera to inventory sargassum weed in the North Atlantic near Bermuda. They survey 460,000 square miles from 12,600 miles above as part of two Earth surveys after completing 28 planned photo sweeps.
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Houston
UPS
Saragasso Sea
Alan L. Bean
Owen K. Garniott
Jack R. Lousma
Aso
Mexico
Canada
Woods Hole
Echimn
Mission Control
War veteran's scratch noted in Joliet hospital report
A clipped line from the St Louis Globe-Democrat recalls a veteran who persisted through war with a scratch and received care in Joliet, reflecting a nurse's account and local wartime resilience.
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Jol
St Louis
Missouri
Globe - Democrat
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