LT.WOOD Purchases Made in Haste Or Buyers Three Business Days to Cosmetics, Housewares and Buyer, Who Later Rejects Them, BATON ROUGE, La
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. PAGE TWENTY-FX)UR — MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester, Conn., Thurs., Nov. 16, 1972 Club Backs The Weather Case Mountain Goudy tonight the low in the National Weather Outlook Purchase lEuTtittig M fralh upper 20s. Partly sunny Siiiirday with the high in the Cooling-Off Period Escape and the northern Inter- See Page 13 mid 40s. December calls for WASHINGTON (AP) - A Mountain Range. wide swath across the nation’s temperatures to average below normal in the Central and Elsewhere near normal MANCHESTER A City of Village Charm southern half is expected to . MANCHESTER, CONN., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1972 VOL.XCH, No. 41 TWENTY-FOUR PAGES - TWO SECTIONS Southern Plains, the Middle temperatures are expected, the PRICE FIFTEEN C E N n have temperatures below sendee said. seasonal normals for the next Mississippi Valley and (Califor Hatch For Hasty Buyers nia. Precipitation is expected to 30 days while a big section of exceed normal in the eastern the North is expected to have half of the nation and west of temperatures above normal. The service said above the Continental Divide except WASHINGTON (AP) - For a had such grace periods two Grandview, Moraine, Wester state to state, but the PTC characterized the sales in the The National Weather normal temperatures are model applies to every sale for near-normal amounts over growing number of buyers with years ago. ville and Whitehall. home of consumer goods and Service said its 30-day outlook expected for.^e Great Lakes the Southern Plateau Region, The target of these laws is a made outside the seller’s place low resistance to tenacious Now the FTC has offered a services.” for mid-November to mid- Region, the Northeast, Florida the service said. door-tCKioor salesmen, there’s cooling-off period proposal as a major industry and the subject of business. The proposal ex The FTC proposal requires Southern U Clash a new way to get out of those model for state standards. The of numerous complaints. cludes sales where the buyer that at the time of sale the bargains that turn out to be F’TC plans to invoke its ’The Direct Selling Associa has initiated a contact in order seller must provide the buyer blu^ers. proposal nationwide with the tion, the major trade associa to get repairs on items such as with a cancellation form wMch The escape hatch is a cooling- force of law if it can dispose of tion for door-to-door sellers, television sets. But the exclu is lacking only the buyer’s off period—usually from two to pending court challenges to its last year listed 91 members sion cannot be used in some signature and date. five days — during which power to issue trade regulation offering 63 different com cases, such as repairs to a buyers with second thoughts rules. modities, including carpet home or driveway. In cases where a seller has The FTC proposal gives sweepers, encyclopedias, ’The FTC rule also does not already provided goods to a EndsWith Two Dead can cancel sales contracts or cover securities or insurance LT.W OOD purchases made in haste or buyers three business days to cosmetics, housewares and buyer, who later rejects them, BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) - the clash was not racially L.andry, who first said he could from special grenade the students lined in front of the sales because the agency’s in the seller has 10 days to say exaq>eration. change their minds on water conditioners. Louisiana Gov. Edwin Edwards motivated. not tell whether the tw6 were launchers. administration building. vestigation “does not reflect whether he plans to reclaim LOCKER PLANT AND MEAT MARKET It could have helped, for ex purchases with a total price of The Wisconsin Attorney says he will not negotiate with A smoke bomb was thrown killed by buckshot or shrapnel, He said his men were also Fires broke out in two that the sales of these in them. If the seller doesn’t ample, the 17-year-old girl in |25 or more. General’s office reported that students at_ Southern from a crowd of students at the later said they were killed by armed with shotguns and campus buildings, causing New York State who signed an ’The same three-day cooling prior to its hew law, there were tangibles have been accom reclaim the goods within 20 front of the building at an shotgun fire. carried live shotgun ammuni extensive damage, and a bomb panied by the objectionable U.8.D JL CHOICE CENTER CUT BLOCK University, where two young installment contract for a set of off period, applied to door-to- 3,000 complaints received an days of the date of cancellation, blacks died in a confrontation advancing line of officers. The Officers said they never fired tion, but “no sheriff’s deputy exploded in another building practices which have the buyer may keep them. ^ glasses. Total price: |1,800. door installment sales involving nually, with 670 or about 22 per with police, until they renounce officers answered with tear gas a gun shot, only tear gas, but fired a weapon.” later in the day. Another who could have used more than four payments, is in cent of them stemming from violence and return peacefully grenades. witnesses said they heard shots Rives said he had looked at Edwards ordered 500 a cooling-off period was the another mydel law, the door-to-door sales. The to classes. After the students had popping through the smoke and television films of the National Guardsmen onto the woman ^ o signed a |800 con Uniform Commercial Credit Michigan Consumers Council ’ Several hundred students scattered and the smoke had confusion. confrontation five times and at campus and placed all of East tract for a new roof. She Code proposed by the National r e p o r t 68 per cent of the Columbia occupied the administration cleared, two young men lay Chief Deputy Gene Rives of no time could he discern a Baton Rouge Parish (County) checked with local contractors Conference of Commissioners complaints it processed in building at the nation’s largest dead on the sidewalk in a pool of East Baton Rouge Parish said weapon being fired. in a state of emergency. The later and found they would have on Uniform State Laws in 1969. volved door-to-door selling. lb. predominantly black university blood. It was not known early today his men were using State Police spokesman were campus was closed until after done tte Job for The proposed law has been ’The head of the Maryland Leaf Burning and refused to leave at the whether the two were Southern hand-thrown tear gas grenades not available for comment. ’Thanksgiving. Both Instances turned up enacted so far by Colorado, Consumers Association said his request of sheriff’s deputies students. and tear gas projectiles fired Sheriff AI Amiss said his men Edwards, who had during Federal Trade Commis Idaho, Indiana, Oklahoma, organization did not receive a and state police. Officials said Parish Coroner Hypolite heard pistol fire coming from considerable black support in sion hiearings. Utah and Wyoming. single complaint linked to door- To Be Allowed EXTRA LEAN-FRESHGROUND M ucke's Link his election campaign last year, Pennsylvania’s Bureau of Various cooling-off statutes to-door sales in the year after NOT PRE-PACKAGED emphasized that the trouble Consumer Protection dis exist in Alaska, Arizona, that state’s law went into VIRGINIA CARLSON years in scouting. He was a was not racial. covered cases of illiterate per California, Connecticut, effect. ’The director of Penn Correspondent member of Troop 35 as a boy Chuck Ground n, 89* I Sausage “’There aren’t white people sons who had been pressured Delaware, Florida, Georgia, sylvania’s consumer bureau Tel. 228-9224 and was awarded the Eagle Manchester Sesquicentennial involved against black pMple,” into buying encyclop^ias and Hawaii, Illinois, Kentucky, described that state’s law as "a Town Fire Warden Richard Scout Badge in 1943. he told a news conference. "It’s others who bought carpet Louisiana, Maine, Maryland godsend to Pennsylvania con K. Davis says the burning of He has served as a situation which involves a sweepers though ttey had no and Massachusetts. sumers.’’ leaves will be permissable neighborhood commissioner, FRESH GREYLEDGE FARM black administration and a carpets. Also Michigan, New Some door-to-door companies when there is no other meaqs of district commissioner, and black university, and involves Now millions of consumers Hampshire, New Jersey, New have voluntarily provided disposition. ' eastern Connecticut council Ml sizes Planning Taking Final Form black students.” may revoke contracts they’ve York, North Carolina, Oregon, buyers with an escaj^ clause. ’The state barred all open commissioner. Laramie ’The vioj^nce followed three signed for no other reason than, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Encyclopedia Britannlca, for burning in the towns in June received the scouter’s award weeks of unrest at Southern’s “I’ve changed my mind.’’ South Dakota, Vermont, example, says it uses a four-day and lifted the ban in September. and has attended training By JOHN A. JOHNSTON floats at a minimum of include military units, fraternal cent grain silver and be priced 9,100-student main campus in Cooling-off periods for door- Virginia, Washington and cooling-off period. Avon Davis refused to issue sessions at Shifft Scout Reser TURKEYS (Herald Reporter) expense. organizations, and marching at about $10, will be numbered, Baton Rouge and a smaller t o - ^ r sales were in effect at Wisconsin. Products said it offers permits under the local or vation in New Jersey. Manchester’s June 23-30 Benson said that a council is bands.