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Salesmen
hedge laws
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Some former door-to-door salesmen have
started dialing tor dollars to circumvent
consumer protection laws
Aliliougli Federal Trade Commission rules
provide consumers with a three-day cooling
oil period in door-to-door sales over 525. a
consumer protection official warns that it
doesn't applv it the transaction is made over
the telephone.
Judith A Brown, deputy attorney general
in charge of the Allentown area office of the
Pennsylvania Bureau of Consumer
Protection, says "door-to-door sales does not
include a transaction conducted and con
summated entirely by mail or on the
Couple enters town politics
MALABAR, Fla iUPI)
John Todd doesn't really
know how to address his wife,
since she became a "city
lather " He's the mayor of
tins small Brevard County
town, population9oo
She was just elected
without opposition to the five
person City Council.
“I'm glad to have her,"
said Todd. 50. who didn’t
know his wife planned to
make ttie town government a
tamily affair "She should be
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telephone if no other contact is made between
the buyer and seller prior to delivery of the
goods or performance of the services.”
If the transaction for more than $25 oc
curred in the home instead of on the
telephone the three-day cooling off period
applies.
Atty Brown says the FTC rule also
provides that a contract must include a
"Notice of Cancellation” near the signature
of the buyer in bold type. The notice should
read, "You, the buyer, may cancel this
contract at any lime before midnight of the
third business day."
The buyer’s right to cancel must also be set
forth on the "Notice of Cancellation” in
duplicate attached to the contract or receipt.
This notice must include the name and ad
dress of the business to which the notice is to
be sent as well as the deadline for the cooling
off period.
Door-to-door sales exempt from the
regulation include insurance, securities and
sale or rental of real estate oroperty. The
rule does not apply when the ouyer initiates
die contract at a retail business establish
ment, when the buyer initiates emergency
service or when the buyer initiates the
contact and specifically requests repair or
maintenance on his personal property.
woman., person."
"Just don't call me ‘Ms
Mrs Todd injected
The Todd team was a little
afraid people might accuse
them of Irving to control city
hall.
And they are somewhat
worried they may violate
Florida's "government in the
sunshine law" which requires
that tlie people’s business be
conducted in public.
Joyce Todd, 37. admits its
hard for the couple to avoid
discussing council matters
and lias asked the city at
torney for a ruling.
“We really didn’t_look at
this as a husband-wife thing,”
said Mayor Todd, 40. “I’m not
going to try to influence her
vote. I didn’t know who was
going to sign up, so I’m bound
not to know how she’ll vote.
“I didn't know she was
going to run until the night
she qualified."
Mrs. Todd, whose father is
mayor of Dundee, Fla., said,
"I don’t think I would have
done this in a larger town."
Vendors court, battle football mobsters
By TIM PHILLIPS
Collegian Staff Writer
Editor’s note: the writer worked as a Coke vendor
at the past three home football games.
The pay was good, the hours short. It was more of
a job than fun, but nevertheless “fun” was a good
way to describe it.
The “fun” was vending cokes at the Penn State-
North Carolina State football game. For others, it
was selling hotdogs or peanuts.
Vending is definitely a money-making
proposition. Dave Hudson, a junior in his fifth year
of vending, said that in a good year one can make
Sl5O. Usually a vendor averages $l5 to $3O a game,
but on Saturday some vendors made over $35.
' Hudson is one of the more spectacular vendors in
that he comes up with a gimmick for almost every
game. Leotards, funny hats, you name it he sells
Cokes.
Selling Cokes is an art, and it takes an artist to sell
them. Take, for example, Mark Dragan, sometimes
known as the singing Cokeman. At the West
Virginia game Dragan portrayed Groucho Marx.
“It didn’t help sell many more cokes,” he said, ’’but
it helped sell more fun.” Sometimes it is fun being
part of the game, even if you aren’t wearing pads.
At times vendors are recognized by their
classmates. Ray Alleman entered his physics class
one morning and was greeted by the cry of “Hey,
peanut man!.” Quite a shock to say the least.
Despite all of the singing and clowning, no one can
outdo the “original Cokeman.” Freshman beware
Jim Whittier made a return appearnace at the
Army game.
Why would a graduated Cokeman make a return
Her labor used, her charfn
Women duped, historian says
HOLLYWOOD (UPI)
Man played a dirty trick on
woman when he emancipated
her. He used her labor and
abused her charms, said
noted philosopher and
historian William Durant.
“It’s still a man-made
world,” observed Durant, one
of the country’s foremost
thinkers.
“We are living in a time
when woman thinks she has
been emancipated, but I’m
afraid that's a com
plimentary way of saying she
has been industrialized.”
Durant explained this
"industrialization” meant
that woman left the home and
took a place in a factory or
office.
Durant laughed gently at
his observation of woman’s
plight. His comments are not
made cruelly, but are the end
product of a lifelong study of
man and events.
Together with his wife,
Ariel, the white-haired and
mustachioed thinker has
completed an 11-volume
masterwork on "The Story of
Civilization.”
Their final volume, ‘‘The
Age of Napoleon,” appears
visit? "Oh, 11 just came back for the fun of it,” he
said as he wiped his brow. The alumni come through
again. Graduated and placed in a job, he came back
to lead the fans in a cheer for the Nittany Lions.
Although |one can't mix hot dogs, they are also a
hot commodity. Tom Marts, a second-year vendor,
said that rtiany times the crowd starts slowly but
grows rowdier with the excitement of the game.
“One time,” Marts explained, “I saw a guy stand
up and chug most of a fifth of scotch. People were
clapping and cheering for him. Later I saw him
being carried out on a stretcher."
Most vendors agree that to the students the game
is just a big party. Rich Lauter, a senior Cokeman
said, “Mostj people are accustomed to winning if
we lose they just accept it and say 'wait till next
weekend.' ”
Win or lose, people come to the games to cheer
and have a good time. Hudson said that in general,
most students go to the games to get loaded; most
townspeople go to the game to watch; and the
alumni go to watch and remember the good times
when they bat on the other side of the field in the
student section.
Vendors are usually treated well by fans. On
,occasion however, a vendor will get ripped off.
When a vendor loses a Coke or money, it comes
directly out of his pocket.
Most vendors are careful when giving change, but
it is easy to make a mistake when there are 10
people standing around rushing their orders.
Having Cokes stolen is an agonizing experience to
the vendor, especially after he has been climbing
ramps and steps most of the afternoon.
A number of women also don white uniforms on
Saturdays. As with the guys, the girls work for
this week. Durant celebrates
his 90th birthday tomorrow.
Durant wrote himself into
the annals of history by doing
just that writing about
history. His simple writing
style, coupled with wit and
humor, earned him a
reputation as a pioneer in
bringing the knowledge of the
ages to all.
Durant began his illustrious
career with the publication of
“The Story of Philosophy” in
1926. It was so popular it
enabled him to devote his life
to his favorite subject the
study of civilization.
With the publication of their
final volume, Mrs. Durant
said the job is done. She was
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lighthearted when she said
they plan to “die, quietly,
slowly, contentedly. Our work
having been primarily done,
we don't have to linger on."
l Durant was 28 when he
married his 15-year-old
sweetheart, whom he met two
years earlier while he was a
substitute teacher. And for 62
years, he was the teacher and
guiding force of the pair while
she took on the role of
protector.
; Rocking serenely in his
rocking chair in the study of
his huge stone house in the
iHollywood Hills, Durant
jshared opinions he for-
Imulated through more than
six decades of the study of
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financial reasons. "I enjoy it too," said one female
vendor, “otherwise. I wouldn't be here now. would
In the course of a day’s work the vendor sees all
kinds of people in all kinds of conditions. It really
can make the job interesting.
Saturday, just after halftime, I was standing
under the bleachers eating a hotdot and joking with
a fellow vendor when a man in his thirties ap
proached for what I thought would be a regular
sale.
He said nothing as he picked up a Coke and began
dumping the contents into a metal trash can. After
nearly choking to death, I managed a weak "Can I
help you?”
"Yeah,” he said, “I just want the ice. Dump out
the Coke from another one and keep the change."
He handed over a dollar and was on his way.
I guess he didn't want to dilute his pollutant.
The strangest story comes from Hudson, who
while vending in his senior year in high school, was
bombarded from above. It seems that a bone of
mysterious origin came whizzing down, narrowly
missing his head and striking his tray.
The bone was, as one might have guessed, not the
ordinary, run-of-the-mill dog bone. No, not quite. It
measured two feet long and six inches thick.
By day’s end which is the middle of the fourth
quarter for most vendors, the back, arms and legs
are growing weary. After last Saturday’s game I
felt like a human sticky bun.
Nevertheless, it was worth it. It was fun and I
made some extra spending money. It was also in
teresting to watch and serve as more than 60,000
people celebrated a Penn State ritual with "the
goddamn words" and the whole shebang.
history
"I believe that when man
took woman out of the home,
he played a dirty trick on
her," he chuckled. “It made it
easier for him to use her labor
and abuse her charms ...
when she gives him her
charms, she has to do without
the legal bonds that he would
be responsible for the
results.”
Turning to today's youth
and the current “permissive”
society, Durant said, "Youth
... insists upon freedom long
before maturity. We became
permissive because we found
it impossible to enforce the
old compulsions. We com
promised, naturally.”
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He has a two-part
"message” for the young:
"One is that the liberty they
enjoy contains in itself the
seeds of chaos, and the chaos
will compel the return to
order."
"The second," he said, "is
that the present pagan riot is
of its nature temporary,
because any movement kills
itself by excess
Pagan periods are followed
by puritan reactions, he said.
Durant firmly believes the
current moral breakdown
or permissiveness in
American society is "one of
the thousand results of the
industrial revolution.”