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Wednesday, October 17, 1979
University Daily Kansan
State checks sale of flooded cars
By DOUG WAHL Staff Reporter
The Kansas Attorney General is investigating the sale of 40 flood-damaged 1979 Ford vehicles that might have been sold to a spokesman for the office said Sunday.
the spokesman, Leille Rawlings, deputy attorney general for the Consumer Affairs Department, said investigators vehicles sold during the past two months by a Wichita dealer. She would not answer questions.
She said her office sent a letter to the dealer this week requesting a list of the people he had sold them to. It is possible that the cars were sold to Lawrence dealers, she said.
The vehicles were 1979 Fords that were damaged during floods on July 26, 1978 when tropical storm Chaudite struck Bayton and Storm, Texas, about 100 miles east of Houston.
"WE WILL CHECK with consumers to
see if they knew the cars were flood-damaged when they bought them," she said.
"We don't care if a consumer wants to buy a flood-damaged car. We care if they were not told they were flood-damaged."
Hawkins said she first learned that the cars might be in Kansas when a Washington, Kan., resident called her office about two weeks ago.
Marcus Woods, chiff of dealers' licensing in Topeca, said a list of the serial numbers if the damaged cars had been sent to his office by Ford Motor Co. Aug. 20.
He said his office sent the list to auctioneers and to special investigators for the Kansas Department of Motor Vehicles.
He said he did not think it was necessary to send a list of the vehicle serial numbers to Kansas dealers.
"YOU CANNOT CONVINCE me that a dealer buying a 1979 car for the price they would pay wouldn't know something was wrong," he said.
Railings said cars were sold in Kansas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.
"There certainly could be dealers selling the cars in Lawrence," she said, standing in front of a brand name in Topkapi or Kansas City yet. We do think some may have been sold in Kansas City at
Ford Motor Co. sold the damaged vehicles to a salvage company from Imboden, Ark.
the cars had salvage titles, but later received regular titles after passing Texas vehicle inspection tests, according to Woods.
THE VEHICLES were then sold as new models, even though they were damaged.
J. R. Humcumil, regional supervisor for the Department of Highways and Transportation in Houston, said the salvage crew "rebuilt the car or sold them for parts."
According to Larry Sturm, a mechanic at Phillips 66 service station, 19th and Massachusetts streets, the cars would have incurred extensive damage because of the foods, including mud in the body and engine.
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Three companies who sell sterling silver flatware to his store have refused to ship the goods recently because they cannot price them. The prices change too quickly, he
Gary Sturtridge, a coin retailer and owner of House of Stuart Ltd., Tonganoxia, also said the silver market was active.
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HE ADDED THAT many people who could not afford to buy gold at $400 an ounce bought silver instead.
coins then at 2.5 times the face value of the coin. In 1971 another increase occurred and the value of coins fell because of the oil embrasure's effect on currency, he paid five times the face value of the coin.
"I wouldn't want to be a buyer right now," he said. "With inflation, people want to own their homes." He also encouraged the dollar. We are discouraging our average investor from going into the silver market.
In the past six weeks, the price of silver has increased from $10 to $17 an ounce, he said.
Sturtiidge that investors and speculators, eager to get rid of depreciating American dollars, were using them to buy silver. That, along with purchases by Americans, generally is thought to be the main steady increase in the price of the metal.
"You can be sure the temporary increase is because of speculation and foreign investment that has pushed the economies down and the country is under control economically, you'll see the price of silver rise."
HE SAID SILVER prices were soaring because its commercial price was important to the client. So he took photography. Not many substitutes for silver have been found, he said, unless more than a few have been found.
"PEOPLE HAVE THE tendency to buy on the up market," he said. "The price of silver is now making the headlines and they want to jump on the bandwagon, too. Plus with continuing inflation they think the government needs to something to back up their assets."
Gold, however, can be filled and mixed with other metals to make it cheaper. Silver is more expensive and more difficult to mine, he said.
IN JUST FOUR weeks, gold leaped from $30 an ounce to $47, only to lose half that impressive gain by the end of the week. I bought it for a quick killing turtle hurt badly, he said.
"However, we've seen the most rapid increase in the past three weeks, not three years. It used to be a yearly increase, but not now."
IN THE PAST three years, the price of one silver-plated plate in his store has increased from $35 to 80.
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After the big boom the price of silver will go down before it goes up again, Shaw said.
Ron Schmidt, owner of Roberts Jewelry, Inc., 833 Massachusetts St., said it was difficult to explain the cause behind increased silver prices in the past year.
"When gold goes up, silver goes up," he said. Silver bullion is being inflated by a sort of taq-ang with gold, he said.
He suggested that those who want to invest slightly in the money they already have investing in the coins is the safest way to go, he said, because they always will be worth their face value plus or minus 2%.
However, dealing on a larger scale in metal commodities is for the person with money assets of $50,000 to $75,000 before he even starts to buy silver, he said.
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October 19-20
BREAK AND CHOCOLATE
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Sunday, October 2
THE GODFATHER
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Directed by Francis Ford Coppola,
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Monday, October 22
FAHRENHEIT 451
Directed by Francis Truffault, with Julie Christie and Caskar Werner. Based on Ray Bradbury's futuristic novel of book burning.
All films M-R shown in Woodruff Aud. at 7:30 unless otherwise noted. $1.00 admission
(1966)
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