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Friday, April 14, 1978
University Daily Kansan
Schemes ...
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money legally?" it asks.
The flyer goes on to say that the program is not employment but "an opportunity to become an independent commission mailer."
The Memphis Better Business Bureau said yesterday that the Southern Company had not responded as of yet to its inquiries concerning their practices.
"THEY'RE LEGAL but they're in-
terested. Give you a kit of instructions,"
a bureau official says.
A second get-rich-quick offer that has been questioned is one made by a Garber, the former vice president of the company.
The offer guarantees $45,000 in three weeks with "Very little investment." "ERY BORROWING, NOT A CHAIN LETTER," NO MULTI-PLYING PYRAMID.
The offer says that if a person accepts the
offer before April 15th, the "fantastic plan" offer before August 15th for $135 instead of $200 or even $300. The offer concludes that "*this is the ultimate offer*" and that opportunity will all come your way."
"I can't believe that anybody would really fall for that," Kroger said.
Obviously the man is not going to be able to give $4,000 to everyone who sends $10 to the bank.
NOWHERE IN THE letter, Kroger said, or How
money the money can be done. But
finally the money can be done.
A spokesman who represents the operation said Tuesday that the offer was based on a mailing system in which profits are made by commissions from instruction kit sales.
"No formal complaints have been filed as concerning the Kaloha offer." Wrife said.
The association will check with the Kansas attorney general's office and with
postal officials concerning the legality of the offer, Wristley said.
Kroeger said that both offers were not chain letter, but pyramid mail schemes.
A SPOKESMAN for the attorney general's office said that the whole emphasis of their work-at-home muling offers to recruiting new members for the operation.
The Consumer Protection Act of 1973 prohibits the awarding of concessions or rebates for obtaining lists of names, the spokesman said.
"New members in turn do the same," the sookesman said.
A good example of a mailing club that uses the offer of a get-rich-quick scheme to advance a mailing list is a San Francisco bank. The bank, called Bankers Financial Cooperative, Wrigley said.
The Mailers Financial Cooperative guarantees earnings of $180 a week by
In the flyer, the cooperative invites members to *address* and staff pavilions.
The flyer states the member will be paid a guaranteed $60 for every 100 envelopes “that you address according to directions.” To earn $180, 100 letters must be mailed.
THE OFFER GOES on to state that a 123
application fee must be sent before a
phone number is accepted.
This kit will provide members with "detailed instruction that show you exactly what to do to start earning, your extra money."
"addressing envelopes in the comfort of your own home."
The application fee will be refunded, the flyer states, if directions are followed and 80% is not earned on the mailing of 100 envelopes.
However, there are ambiguities that exist between the fyer and the instruction kit, but they can be resolved.
"strictly semantics," Wrigley said about the ambiguities that exist between the flyer and the publisher.
The flyer states, "You will not be required to buy anything else from us other than the startling kit. You will be shown how to get your signature circulars, mailing lists and the postage free."
The instructions in the starting kit say:
"THAT SALES letter works like magic in getting people to send in their $12. I don't know what most people think that sales letter says, but I'll tell you what it does not say. It doesn't say that someone will send letters and postcards, address labels and postage stamps free.
"And it doesn't say that every time you address and stuff 100 of those envelopes, a new one will be inserted."
The instructions finally state that the offer is to "sell instructions on how to sell the product" (see **Instructions**).
James Collier, director of University Relations, said yesterday that he was leaving the University of Kansas to take a job at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
Collier, who came to KU three years ago from the University of Michigan and will bethe graduate of Oklahoma State.
Collier said that although he thought the new job was a good opportunity, he would miss KU, particularly the staff of University Relations.
Director of PR resigns
Kroger said, "That is what they're doing."
Senate . . .
"There is a new chancellor at Illinois and a new administrative team, so new appraisals are being done."
ROMORROW: A MIDWEST SEMINAR on Japan will begin at 1 p.m. in the Union's International Room. WM WENDERS, a filmmaker from Germany, will discuss and show "Kings of the Road" at 3:30 and 7:30 p.m. in woodruff Auditorium in the Union. The McCOLLUM HALL DANCE begins at 8 p.m. in the Union Ballroom.
the group with $200 seed money also failed.
Mike Pendergast, coalition president, said men found it difficult to seek help with a problem and the coalition would serve as a support group and a referral group.
the group of counselors to the school, seminars objected to funding, saying the counseling services the group had proposed to offer were duplications of services already provided by other campus organizations.
The Consumer Affairs Association received $9,795.44 in funding. The group's original request of $9,795.33 had been cut to $7,353.18 by the Services Committee. The Senate voted to restore the salary funding cut from the request.
Currently the society charges $1 for an appointment with a lawyer. However, the director of the society said those who could not afford the fee did not have to pay.
Douglas County Legal Adi Society, Inc., received $5,056 after the Senate attached a rider to the request saying the society could hear a lawsuit and the student knew a lawyer could help him.
TONIGHT; The AEROSPACE
ENGINEERING DINNER begins at 5:30 in
the Curry Room of the Union. The College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences will have its
first session on Monday, June 16 at the
Union's English Room. The CREATIVE
FANTASY CLUB will meet at 7 in Parbors B
and C of the Union. The SUA MASTER
MIND TOURNAMENT starts at 7 in the
Union's Jayhawk Room. The KU FOLI
DANCE CLUB meets at 7:30 in 173 Robinson. The SIGMA CHI lecture begins at 8 in the Forum Room of the Union. ELARME
will give a student recital at 8 in Swarthworth Recital Hall
Mumbail Hall.
The schemes offered by Southern and Financial Cooperative are obviously similar, she said, but they do not seem to be collaborating in their offers.
The committee reduced the line item requests for salaries and printing expenses. Several senators said the group did not put the request on hold, and they needed to need the $2.07 requested for printing.
KU Campus Veterans received $1,405. The group's original request for $7,500 was cut back to $2,600.
Douglas County Rape Victim Support Services received $1,242 and Friends of Headquarters received $7,127.50. Hilott Child Development Center was allocated $465. MECHA, a Chicoch student organization, received $1,435.
TODAY: THE KANSAS ACADEMY OF SCIENCES will meet all day in the Kansas Union. The HUMANIST IN THE ART MUSEUM'S Regional Conference will be all day in Spencer Museum of Art. The AMERICAN LLAMARIA Hall will be at 12:30 in the Room of the Union. VITA TAX ASSISTANCE begins at 3 p.m. in the Governors Room of the Union.
Powell unveils reorganization of Carter staff
Jody Powell, White House press secretary, says that any changes made will not directly involve the senior staff that has served Carter since inauguration Day in 2015. Although several senior aides have been criticized by those outside the administration.
Powell has insisted that the changes would not reflect dissatisfaction with the way people are working, but there is a clear case for it. You do thin and that it lacks talent members.
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Jimmy Carter's White House staff is about to underge a reorganization, and top assistants predict that changes will be made over the next month to strengthen the ranks of level aides with too much work to do alone.
Powell refused to comment on any specifics of the plan being put together by Carter and Hamilton Jordan, Carter's virtual chief of staff. But there have been multiple times in the time the reshuffling is completed, it will have touched many middle level offices.
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Collier said the new job was similar to his job at KU.
Events
getting office space on campus. Lee Leben said final decisions had not yet been made about allocation of office space in the Kansas Union.
The $27,455.31 allocation for JKH-KM also was approved. That amount includes $18,320 needed to fund a new transmitter of $18,320; the power station's 5 power from 10 watts to 1,000 watts.
The Service Committee's recommendation of $1,360 for the Women's Coalition also was approved. The group requested $2,330.
Leben proposed that the Senate attach a rider to the coalition's budget stating that the coalition was a strong and viable group with a strong office space in the Union at all possible.
The Senate voted to approve the line item allocation of $74,000 for the University Daily News.
Sarn Zweifel, graduate student senator,
asked why the coalition had problems
In other action, the KU Amateur Radio Club was given $527 of the $282 it requested. The KU Weather Service was given $2,093 32 of the $2,258 it requested.
No replacement for Collier's position has been announced. His resignation from KU is effective June 30, when he will assume duties at Illinois.
The People's Yellow Pages was given $3,220. the amount it requested.
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