0^ 80 - MANCHESTER HERALD. Monday, Sept, 12. 1983 New copter flight today B u sin ess Track at MHS BLOOM FIELD (U PI) — Navy Secretary John the decks of frigates and destroyers and-setirch Sparks fly In Cosentry Whafe In ’n out H. Lehman Jr. was scheduled to fly the first of the for enemy submarines before thesubmarines are Ndvy’s new light anti-subnarine helicopterifwhen within torpedo-range of Navy ships. over microwave tower: with Bonnet girls r proves costly Oil- gas-leasing schemes: it came off a Kaman Adrospace production line The helicopters go by the name LAMPS I; for today.. Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System. ... page 3 -Charles H. Kaman, president of Kaman Kaman originally produced the predecessor of page 0 ... page 11 Aerospace, was to deliver the helicopter to l a m p s I in the 1980s, but the helicopter was could you strike it rich? Lehman during ceremonies in Bloomfield start­ replaced during the 1960s by LAM PS III, a larger ing at 3 p,m. helicopter with a longer range that could hunt The anti-submarine helicopters will fly-from submarines. Of course you’ve fantasized at one time or another about striking it rich in oil or gas. All of us have and the TV dramas in this instance copy reality. Also copying reality — but usually not so harmlessly — are the Your companies that offer to file your entry in government- Money's sponsored oil-and-gas-leasing lotteries. Cloudy tonight Manchester, Conn. By countless hundreds offhousands, the companies Worth COLOR RITE Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1983 are luring you into the lotteries with promises of quick and Wednesday and huge profits;- are misrepresenting what they can Sylvia Porter Single copy: 25$ do for you; are engaging in high-pressure sales — See page 2 tactics; are charging wildly inflated fees. 2 . Brralb This nationwide problem has led securities commissioners in 11 states to issue cease and desist AID orders charging violations of anti-fraud and state eyes. Investors in Maine, for instance, have been securities law^; The Federal Trade Commission has informed they will get $25,000 after five years, win or charged one such filing service with making false lose, and that they are guaranteed against loss. representation's. A recent telephone survey indicated Investors in New Jersey have been told that their that in least 33 states, residents are the targets of chances are as high as 97 percent for winning a lease. these schemes. About 250 companid’s are estimated to Some Would-be investors in Arizona were promised a R e agan O K s be mhking these offers — although of course not all of 25 percent' discount if they mailed their checks them are out to gyp you. “ today.” H E R E ’S HOW they work: IF THE PROMISES of competing for one of these The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) olthell.S. ovur leases still appeals to you, take steps to protect Department of the Interior posts lists of federal lands yourself and your savings. At a minimum: available for lease by public lottery every two • Contact your state securities commissioner and air strikes months. You can file for a chance to win the option to your locai Better Business Bureau to get the record lease the mineral rights in a parcel if you^are a U.S. for the particular company and its principals. dam citizen, by paying a filing fee of $75 for each entry. • Obtain from the filing service company the total DETAILS AT EVERY Most of the leases have little or no market value since number of customers who have in v e s t^ through the lands in the program don’t lie within a “ known company and the total who have been successful in RITE AID STORE By Adatt Angla geological structure’ ’ of a producing oii or gas field. winning a lease. Refusal to answer is, of course, a red Focua Editor, • in Lebanon Even if you win, you still have to find a buyer. Many flag. N leases are simply not marketable. Still, some parcels • Ask the company’s salesperson how the company COVENTRY — Fencea may make good are more promising than others: as many as 10,000 has been able to locate the sleepers whqn so few others neighbori, but dami dfm’t Bv Scott Mocleod to declare a cease-fire between Syrian- filings have been made on only one parcel. The can. Not II you talk to aome very upaet neighbora United Press International backed Druze Moslems and Christian drawings attract widespread interest anji participa­ • Don’t be fooled by companies with official­ along the Skunkamaug River, anywayt militia forces in the Shouf mountains tion despte the odds. In the November 1982 BLM EXIRA-SfREIKTHl sounding names. Neither the U.S. government nor the The trouble itarted laat Tiieaday wben'dentiat With U.S. Marine casualties mount­ and call for the withdrawal of ’’all drawing, for instance, 120,000 applications were state of Wyoming, which recently changed to a public Jack A. Bynea pi 2991 SouUi St. drew down the ing in Lebanon, President Reagan has illegitimate” foreign forces from Leba­ received for 500 parcels. aucfTon system, endorses any filing service. dam on hla property in order to make repairs (o H authorized the colnmander of the nese soil. • Here’s where the filing services slide in. Their goal: TAHnS If you wish, enter the drawings yourself. Filing and start work on a bydTtHriectric plant that will American peacekeers to call in air . -The fighting erupted nine days ago to convince you that they can uncover a “ sleeper,” a WIUOTM services do not increase your chances of winning. someday power hla house and olOce, with leftover strikes to defend positions that come when Israel redeployed its forces to valuable lease attracting scant competition. They N C A n U lB These chances remain tiny. m P i „ power sold Ip Connecticut Light A Power. under attack, an administration offi­ southern Lebanon. neglect to mention that they might file multiple l o n u o r s o Neighbors lipetream kuddenly found that their cial in Washington said. Three more Marines were injured entries on one such sleeper, or parcel. Moreover, “ Sylvia Porter’sNew Money Book for the 80s,” 1,328 portion of the river had nearly disappeared. ■ News of the move came a day after late Monday when their base around while the BLM charge $75 per filing, the filing services pages of down-to-earth advice on personal money Some neighbora found their wells dangerously three more Marine peacekeepers were Beirut Airport was hit by 12 mortar have been known to charge as much as $300 for each management, is now available through her column. low. * . ' wounded by mortar fire and 2,000 fresh shells, aimed at nearby Lebanese army filing. You pay for the alleged expert knowledge of Send $9.95 plus $1 for mailing and handling to “ Sylvia One neighbor found a 14-incb dead trout. Others American troops arrived on warships artillery and air force positions, a their geologist. Porter’s New Money Book for the 80s,” in care of this said the stench of dead flab was unbearable. Kids off the coast of Beirut in a major Marine spokesman said. The promises and guarantees some of these newspaper, 4400 Johnson Drive, Fairway, Kan. 66205. who uadd to dive oft a bridge on South Street escalation of the U.S., presence in Two of the Marines, one suffering a services offer should run up red flags before your Make checks payable to Universal Press Syndicate.) suddenly found their swhiuning bole nearly Lebanon. dislocated shoulder and the other fmpty. Muck from the audden^-wmpty river "The local commander can ask for shrapnel injuries to his hands, were to created fears that there was quicksand. air strikes in defense of his position,” be transferred for treatment to the USS Another tear surfaced, too. With a nearly the official said. ” It’s authorized at Iwo Jima offshore. The third returned State targets gas dealers dried-up river, what if there's fire? some some level in the area (Lebanon); not in to duty, the spokesman said. neighbm asked. Washington, but only in defense of the F o u l U.S. Marines have been killed ^ t the main concern was with the damage to troops when they come under fire.” and .28 injurecTsince the latest round of T O M O IO ia the fiah and wildUfe. ' The official said the new order was fighting erupted Sept. 3. in price sign crackdown . requested by U.S. Middle East envoy Three U.S. warships carrying 2,000 401. W iNTElt WILMOT of 217 Woodbridge Read Robert McFarlane, who was in Saudi Marines arrived at their station off the ■OTTU iqient Friday afternoon trying to save Oph, Arabia today for talks on the Lebanese Lebanese coasb Monday to back up paddng them in leaves and carrying them to crisis. HARTFORD (DPI) — i,200 Marines in Beirut as part of the everyday. I ’m on the road , and they give you a prices, but could not find portiona of the rtver that lUll had water. She wag The 400-man Lebanese army garri­ Consumer complaints multinational peace-keeping force. ali day every day. I get ’ rebate.” the price once she drove joined by neigiriwra carrying buckaU, trying to son of the key town of Souk al Garb, about missing and mis­ "The Multinational Force being here gas six days a week. Joanne A. Brissette of into the station. t the flab to daapar watar.