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M - MANCHESTER HERALD. Wednesday, Feb. 3, 198a Supermarket Shopper Mall suit: Ruling could affect new talks/page 3 MHS wins again: Smithsonian shows Goddard provides rare red diamond Refund checks arrive late T ax law: Season of discontent for CPAs/page 9 margin / p a g e 11 WASHINGTON (AP) — A mysterious red By Martin Sloone diamond, one of only five known in the world, is United Feature Syndicate sparkling under the bright lights of its bulletproof Clip ’n’ file refunds glass case at the National Museum of Natural Last summer. Nelson Adshead two sets of Play-Doh. Send the History after years in the shadows of obscurity. of Stillwater, Pa., wrote to me Soups, Snacks, Candy (File S) required refund form and A gift to the nation from the late Boston gem with an interesting theory. He Clip out this file and keep it three qualifying Fruit Roll- dealer S. Sydney DeYoung, the round-cut, knew that manufacturers’ re Ups Universal Product Code unmounted, S.03-carat diamond is probably with similar cash-off coupons funds involved a lot of money, — beverage refund offers with symbols showing the number worth several million dollars. almost a billion dollars in cash 13 or higher for each set of But museum curator John Sampson White was beverage coupons, for exam and free products in 1987. Nelson ple. Start collecting the needed Play-Doh ordered. Expires shocked last October when the diamond landed was bothered by the length of proofs of purchase while look March 25. 1988. on his desk in a small cardboard box. It had been time it took to receive the refunds KNORR $2 Coupon Offer. sent by registered mail — uninsured — from ing for the required forms at he sent for, and he theorized that the supermarket, in newspap Receive $2 in Knorr coupons. DeYoung’s estate in Boston. manufacturers were dragging ilaiirliratprManchester — A City of Village Charm Hpral^ Send the required refund form The box carried $11.58 in postage and contained ers and magazines, and when their heels in sending out refund trading with friends. Offers and the Universal Product a yellow invoice listing the contents simply as and rebate checks so they could may not be available in all Codes from any three varieties “ one large red diamond.” keep more of this money in their of Knorr soup mix. Expires When he learned of the bequest. White toid areas of the country. Allow 10 3 0 C 6 n t8 bank accounts, earning interest. weeks to receive each refund. March 31, 1988. Thursday, Feb. 4, 1988 reporters, " I expected to see an armored truck I thought about Nelson’s theory MILKY WAY, SNICKERS, and a couple of armed guards pulling up one AP photo and came up with one of my own. These offers require refund MUSKETEERS, MARS Coo- day." Instead, he said, "it is possible that we If the manufacturers had an forms: I’em Cooler Bag Offer. Re F have here a $5 million diamond shipped in a ON DISPLAY — Curator John Simpson incentive to delay sending the BRACH’S/SHEER ceive an Oxford nylon, 50-cent box.” ‘Wonderful’ White holds a 5.02-carat red diamond, cash, they probably had an equal ENERGY Pantyhose Offer. fiberglass-insulated Cooler Wearing a white cotton glove. White twirled the incentive to speed up the return of Snowstorm Receive a free pair of L’eggs Bag. Send the required refund DeYoung diamond under the light of a the first of its kind ever displayed in a mail-in offers that sent coupons to Sheer Energy pantyhose form and the Universal Pro high-intensity desk lamp Monday to show off the public museum, at the Smithsonian consumers. After all, the sooner (shade: “ suntan” ). Send the duct Code symbols from any budget, say sparkling red flashes beneath its black surface. Institution in Washington. consumers receive coupons, the required refund form and two two six-packs of Milky Way, sooner they are able to use them Universal Product Code sym Snickers, 3 Musketeers or to make additional purchases. bols from any lay-down bags Mars bars, along with a check snaps spring E So I asked readers of this (10-ounce or larger) of Brack’s or money order for $5.99 for legislators Names in the News column to keep a 90-day record of Chocolate Candies, or three each bag ordered. Expires how long it took to receive their proofs of purchase from any March 31, 1988. refunds: Which came back more hanging bag (5.5-ounce or By Andrew Yurkovsky quickly, cash or coupons? larger), or a box (4-ounce or Here’s a refund form to Brando returns Passionate lawsuit At the end of November, larger) of Brack’s Chocolate Manchester Herald prediction write for: hundreds of letters came in with LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mar NEW HAVEN (AP) - Imita Candies. Expires Feb. 28.1988. the results. Most of them con RENUZIT $1.25 Rebate State legislators representing Manchester lon Brando, last seen on the big tion may be the sincerest form of DENTYNE Cash & Coupon tained listsof refunds showing the Refund Offer. Receive a $1 Offer, P.O. Box 14958-A, Balti and other area towns reacted favorably to the screen in 1980’s “ The Form'ula," flattery to some people, but not to more, MD 21268. Send a Elizabeth Taylor and the makers date they were sent for and the refund and two 25-cent Den- $6.32 billion budget proposed by Gov. William Winter blues still with us, will make a return as an ex-CIA self-addressed, stamped enve A. O’Neill during the opening of the General of a fragrance named for the date received. tyne coupons. Send the re agent called back to duty in lope. This offer expires March Assembly on Wednesday. actress. On average, it takes six to eight quired refund form and 10 "Jericho," a suspense movie 31, 1988, but requests for the The legislators — most of them Democrats despite Chuckles’ forecast written by the actor. A cologne called Fever has the weeks to receive a refund. This Universal Product Code sym was no surprise. I have been form must be postmarked no — also offered a preview of what this year’s The movie is set in Mexico, same violet, lavendar and gold bols from Dentyne 8-stick telling my readers for a long time later than Feb. 29, 1988. While legislative session will bring. Panama, Colombia and Washing art-deco motif and packaging as single packs, six Universal that refunding takes a great deal waiting for the form, save the Included in the governor’s proposed 1988-89 Bv Andrew J. Davis The Manchester Police Depart ton, D.C., said Andre Blay, who is does Elizabeth Taylor's Passion, Product Code symbols from of patience. But did the cash- cut-out Universal Product budget is a $400,000 grant to help pay for ment reported that there have producing the movie with Elliott says a lawsuit filed by Taylor, her Dentyne 18-stick bonus packs, Manchester Herald refund offers take longer to Codes from the back panels of renovations to Cheney Hall, a line item been no major traffic accidents Kastner through Palisades cosmetics company and or three Universal Product arrive than the coupon offers? the carton sleeves of any three O’Neill agreed to at the request of state Rep. Entertainment. Chesebrough-Pond’s Inc. of Code symbols from Dentyne Two days after Chuckles II, the this morning. No, surprisingly, they did not. 7.5-ounce Renuzit Adjustable James McCavanagh. D-Manchester, and The movie will be directed by Greenwich, which manufactures 10- or 6-packs. Expires March resident groundhog at the Lutz Lee O’Conner, acting highway Air Freshners, along with the $4.'’>4.000 to pay for the replacement of roofs for Donald Cammell, whose "White the Passion products. In fact, more than 90 percent of 31 1988 Children’s Museum, predicted superintendent, said, that all 15 my readers reported that they cash-register receipt with the 11 buildings at the old campus of Manchester Of The Eye,” will be released by The lawsuit filed Thursday in FRUIT ROLL-UPS Free that spring would be coming soon. highway department trucks were received their cash refunds ap Plav-Doh Offer. Receive up to purchase price circled. (Community College. Palisades in March, Blay said U.S. District Court here accuses a new snowstorm swept into the out this morning sanding and Grants to Manchester for general govern- • Monday. Fever maker Westport Laborato proximately one week sooner state reminding people that win scrapping snow off the streets. than their coupon refunds. For ment and education, based on existing Blay said the movie is tenta ries Inc. of Fairfield of violating ter is still here. ”We have everyone out,” example, Kathryn Taylor of occasionally send for a refund for quantity of envelopes for the zone legislation, are expected to increase by 19.5 tively set for filming late this the U.S. Trademark Act, the state ChucklesIImadeherprediction O’Conner said. “ We’re sanding my mother who lives in a Chicago that includes Munster, Ind. But percent, from $13,881,933 to $16,586,504 in the year, and that Brando and Unfair Trade Practices Act and Castle Hayne, N.C., reported that and scrapping the streets. All the suburb. Her refunds arrive much the refunds going to CTiicago 1988-89 fiscal year. during Groundhog Day ceremo Cammell are at work editing the Miss Taylor’s right to privacy. it took an average of 7.6 weeks to sooner than mine — two to three accumulate much more quickly nies Tuesday at the museum.