Friday, October 18, 1974
University Daily Kansan
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Quick money offers draw warning
Reporter
By SHELLEY PETERSON
Quick money-making schemes and work-at-home opportunities abound in the classified ad section of many newspapers and magazines.
These offers often appeal to housewives, elderly persons and others who need extra help with cleaning.
But are the claims of earning "up to $400 a month" addresses envelopes or offers of making "$23 per 100 or more" stuffed envelopes legitimately* Carate Boone, director of Protection Association (CPA), advises against getting involved in such offers.
"The consumer should be aware that nobody is out to give you money," Boone said. "There's no set plan for getting rich quick."
The idea of doing work in the home often misleads people to believe these plans are for the business district. Boone said, but a pamphlet distributed by Better Business Bureau, Inc., states, "IF
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Four bicycles, worth a total of $490, were reported stolen from Oliver Hall bike shop.
According to security and parking reports, the four bicycles were 10-speed machines.
The locks on each of the bicycles appeared to have been cut with bolt cutters, and the bikes were estimated value of two bikes was $110 each; the third was $120 and the fourth was $150.
you answer an ad offering you huge profits for some at-home work for which there is a great demand and which requires no exertion. You can get paid upwind wind up losing money instead of earning it."
A Lawrence woman, Mrs L. Iris Daniels,
412 Michigan St., answered a similar ad in
a magazine her husband brought home few
weeks ago. A home service at home for
several mail order companies.
Daniels said she was paid a 50 per cent commission on all orders she received. She said she sent the orders to the original customer, which sent information out under her name.
She said she had put ads in the newspapers of many nearby cities, the Lawrence Journal-World and the Kansan, and had received enough orders to break even after paying for stamps, envelopes and the newspaper ads.
Daniels' son, a University of Kansas student, helps with the addressing of envelopes because she can't tape. Daniels said she ordered 100 circulars at a time from the mail order companies and could work as many hours as she liked sending them out.
She enjoys the work, she said, because it is something she can sit down and do at home.
However, since she has only been involved in this work a few months, she said, she can't tell if she would make much money in the future.
Boe suggested that anyone interested in doing work at home could investigate the Small Business Bureau, the PCA or local libraries for information. Going through can be much different from "letting someone use you as a decoy," she said.
Most of the quick money-making schemes
The Better Business Bureau pamphlet said that in a post fraud case, the Hearing Examiner found the average amount that could be earned by home workers responding to such an ad would be approximately 45 cents a week.
"There are costs the consumer is not aware of. He gets the information." Ronee said.
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"Most people don't realize what they're getting into."
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She encouraged anyone interested in small businesses or working at home to call
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Lee McGoff, the new owner and manager of the Free State Opera House, said recently that the Free State would offer a major jazz concert every month if there were enough interest in the Lawrence area to support the concerts.
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Maynard Ferguson is scheduled to perform with his 13-piece band at Free State Oct. 30. Ferguson is considered to be one of the most trumpetists in the jazz circuit. He and this band have been instrumental in bringing back the jazz "band" style to contemporary jazz.
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McGoff he also be was working to bring jazz maestro Count Basié to Lawrence for a November concert. He said if the jazz concerts were well received, other top jazz musicians would be scheduled for monthly concerts at Free State.
"We've just gone into the area of jazz," he said. "If we see that there is a large enough amount of interest in this, we will continue with it.
"We're looking for suggestions, and we're wide open to ideas about whatever people are thinking about."
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