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By BRYANT GRIGGS
Counterfeiters play losing game
Although the chance of being a successful counterfeiter is small, there are still those that can produce high value.
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And for those who play the game and lose, they can receive up to 15 years in prison, a $1 million fine, and a jail sentence.
Fortunately, counterfeiters aren't numerous in the Lawrence and Kansas City areas, two law enforcement officials said yesterday.
The odds definitely aren't in the counterfeiter's favor, Gerald Bechtle, special agent in charge of the Kansas City U.S. Secret Service division, said.
"A SUCCESSFUL counterfeiter would have to make a thousand $10 bills and would have to make 1,000 successful attempts at fraud. You'd be said. "It's not a very profitable business."
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"And when it does, we have our man."
Debate squad wins 14 awards in four matches
The University of Kansas debate squad returned Monday from its first weekend of competition of the year, boasting 14 awards from four tournaments.
The team of Robin Rowland and Frank Cross, Lawrence seniors, took fourth place at the University of Kentucky, where 98 teams participated. Rowland was the fourth-place speaker in the tournament, and Cross was the fifth-place speaker.
Cross and Rowland won the National Intercollegiate Debate Tournament last spring.
Six KU debaters won awards at Kansas State University, Ruth Ben仁, Norton sophomore, and Sherry Wolfe, Blue Springs, Mo., sophomore, took third place in the senior division. Chris Collosum and Chris Finch, sophomore, finished fourth in the junior division.
In individual events at K-State, Allan Bottom, Topeka freshman, took second place in persuasive speaking. Wolfe finished third in extemporaneous speaking, and Donna Carlisle, Shawnee Mission freshman, finished fourth in extemporaneous speaking.
At Texas Tech University, the team of Brian Nail, Kansas City, Mo., freshman, and Kevin Wilson, Vacaville, Calif., freshman, finished fourth among 42 teams. Nail was the first to win a game. Mark Spencer, Independence freshman, was the ninth-place speaker.
At the University of North Colorado at
Greeley, Jeff Brunton, Topeka senior,
and Steve Griffin, Lawrence sophomore, took
fifth place among 54 teams.
The KU squad will host a fall tournament Nov. 5-7. The Heart of America Tournament
"if we get 20 calls a day about counterfeiting in one area, we tell the store merchants and the banks to watch out," Bechtle said.
The counterfeiter increases his chances of getting caught every time he goes to work.
HE SAID THAT to help break up counterfeit operations and to receive lighter sentences for counterfeiting convictions, many persons arrested on charges of counterfeiting often revealed the sources of their counterfeit bills.
Last year there were $43 million in counterfeit bills in the United States, Bechtle said. Three million dollars were $49 million. Forty million dollars were seized, he said.
Most of the counterfeit bills circulated were in $10 or $20 denomination. Five dollar bills were popular once, Bechle said, but their use isn't as profitable now.
THE LAST MAJOR counterfeiting
city in Cusas City area occurred
in 1974, Repubilica.
"Since then it's been relatively quiet," he said.
Lt. Kerneth Harmon of the Lawrence Police department said the occurrence of counterfeiting in Lawrence was rare and was nothing to worry about.
Harmon said only one or two instances of counterfeiting had occurred in Lawrence in the past year.
About 80 per cent of all counterfeit fittes come through the local banks, Bechle said. He said an unknowing person could pass on bad fitts when he received change at a local bank.
"IN NEEM CASES, a counterfeiter will come into a store and pass a bad bill without the store merchant knowing. And if an ordinary citizen follows right behind the counterfeiter he must be the counterfeiter himself. But this does not happen too frequently." Bechtle said.
Two bank representatives interviewed in Lawrence said that when counterfeit bills came into the area, they contacted the local authorities and the U.S. Secret Service.
Beth Muelher, assistant cashier at the University State Bank, 99 Iowa St., said, "The Secret Service is the only agency to protect you and examine what is counterfeit and what is not.
Police destroy 350 lbs. of pot
Lawrence police officers yesterday destroyed 350 pounds of confiscated marijuana, the third burning in the last 10 days.
Assistant Chief of Police Darrell Stephens said that the marijuana had to be destroyed because it was no longer useful as evidence for prosecution.
"Some of it had been around the station for a couple of years, and the rest only a couple of days ago."
The marijuana was burned at the Lawrence city landfill.
"WE DON'T CALL the local police, but we do alert other banks in the area."
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When police are asked to investigate a suspected counterfeit bill, they don't always have to compare a counterfeit bill with genuine currency. Many times they can determine whether the bill is counterfeit by phone, Bechtle said.
A counterfeit bill can be detected by checking for mistakes in the presidential portrait and the federal bank seal, poorly designed numerals, or bad paper color or texture.
The number 12 is called the check number. It will also appear in the front of the serial number, which is in the upper right and lower left hand corners of the bill.
A NUMERAL corresponding to the letter in the seal is placed inside the border at each corner of the bill. If the letter in the seal is L, the number 12 will appear in each corner of the bill, since L is the 12th letter in the alphabet.
One can also make a distinction between a counterfeit and a genuine bill from the front of the dollar. A counterfeit bill has
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On the left side of the presidential portrait is a federal bank seal, which tells where the bill was distributed. In the middle of that seal is a letter.
ON THE BACK of the bill the plate number appears below the E of the centered label.
Of the two bank representatives in office, the said said was relatively easy to spot counterfeiters.
At the University State Bank, cashiers go through a general training course.
"It's the little things." Becth said, that help determine what is counterfeit.
"Normally you could tell if a bill was counterfeit just by looking, especially if you've been around money long enough." Bill Lebert, vice president of cashiers at the Lawrence National Bank and Trust Co., said.
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WITH THE GROWTH of copying machines and their ability to copy almost any image, the use of color—Bechtle said the threat of the use of copy machines for counterfeiting was a problem to consider, but not a major one. "It's a good thing we have to contend with," Bechtle said.
"If copy machines do process a good bill, the best people can do is run it through coin changers. You don't have to use a good bill machine. You can change the coins. Play money works just as well."
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LARRY WINN WANTS YOU TO KNOW WHERE HE STANDS.
ON GOVERNMENT HONEYEST. While Jimmy Carter and congressional democrats are willing to talk about cheating, lying and all sorts of corruption during the Watergate era, they quickly scuffle talk or allegations about cheating, indiscretions and lying by their members
The fact is Congress, controlled for the past 22 years by one party, has been too lax in its efforts to clean up its own record. It has become a rudderless, undered body with independent little fiefdoms and interest groups, that has lost the confidence of the American people.
It is time we cleaned out the last traces of scandal and impropriety, and applied discipline with equanimity to the abuse of powers.
That is why I have sponsored legislation which would open all congressional committee meetings to the public and eliminate practices like proxy voting. I have also sponsored the Public Law that would require the registration of special interest groups and lobbyists.
YOUR CONGRESSMAN,
LARRY WINN.
HE LISTENS. HE ACTS.
RE-ELECT
LARRY WINN
NOVEMBER 2ND.
Authorized by the Winn for Congress Committee, Box 411, Shawnee Mission, Kansas. Jack Brand, Chairman
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