Thursday. January 21. 1982
Edmisten Gets Restraining Order Against Fla. Firm
Atty. Gen. Rufus L. Ed
misten was granted a court
order on Jan. 11 prohibiting
Florida-based American
Marketing Services, Inc.
from making false claims in
telephone calls to businesses
“from one end of our state to
the other,” Edmisten said.
“The firm’s salespeople
are pusing their wares, by
telling prospective
customers they’ve won (or
are eligible to win) a prize if
they’ll place an order, but
there never was a contest,”
Edmisten said. “We have a
state law that protects
consumers from phony
contests that are in any way
connected to sales
promotions.”
The temporary
restraining order issued
Jan. il by Wake County
Superior Court was
requested in a state con
sumer protection lawsuit
against the Pompano Beach
firm which is accused of
multiple misrepresentations
in sales of ballpoint pen, key
chains and similar im
Hollowell’s
Electrical Service
Route 3 K-j ’
Edenton
*
Alvin Hollo well
Owner
(Licensed Electrician)
Phone 482-2608
For Free Estimates
Call After 3:30
New Work Contractor
I REAL 'Wi\ l%T7 d MOBILE!
[estate ts VrIIJLiCT HOME ■
Office: S/VLES
318 South Broad Street aHL Call Terr y Jones At 919-482-7522
Highway 32 North
1 Mile From Edenton
New Listings:
COUNTRY CLUB DR. 3 yr. old brick home located in prime residential area.
MORGAN HARK 3 BR, LR, 2 baths, kitchen, den. $61,900. Two stories features 3,000 ft. with LR, kitchen, DR, den w-fireplace, library, j^Bf
. .. , „ horvWvlfWc recreation room, 3 BR, 3 baths, double garage plus many extras. Beautiful wooded
FOREST PARK — 3 BR, 2 baths, LR, den w-fireplace, kitchen, hanlwood floors, lot and ASSUMABLE mortgage at 9‘/2 per cent. $115,000.
screened back porch. Attractive assumable mortgage at 9 per cent. $54,000
H lIWY 32 N - Commercial building, central H-AC. Adaptive to several com- BERTIE COUNTY - Only 12 mi. from Edenton, 8 acres including fish pond; IMH
I mercial uses. country home. $40,000, owner financing at 12 per cent or $35,000 cash.
SWIMMING POOL 2700 sq. ft. brick home with LR, family room w-fireplace; Kiss
FORRENT—3 BR, 1 bath, Morris Circle. $250.00. Available February 1. kitchen, 4 BR, 2Vi> baths plus a sewing room. Patio area. OWNER FINANCING. M
BUILDING lot on Soundshore Dr., near country club; beautiful view of Sound. Your Landlord
I $42,500.
COUNTRY CLUB DR. With water privileges; features LR, DR, kitchen, 2 full MONTPELIER DR. WITH WATER PRIVILEGES Brick construction on large CjOOdbVC!
baths, 3BR plus 4th. BR or den. Attached 2 car garage with AC workshop; cedar M on]y 2 yrs old features LR) kitchen-DR combo, den (fireplace, 4 BR, 2 baths, J
I paneled back porch; super storage. $85,000. double garage. $78,000.
COLONY DR. - Neat 4 yr. old home on large lot. Features family room ALBEMARLE SOUND - Brick ranch with LR, DR, kitchen, den w-fireplace, 3 NOW, With a Small dOWn payment,
(fireplace), Florida room, 3 BR, bath, utility room, carport. This one is uniquely Lots of tall trees. $79,500.
B different. Call me. $39,000. y()U can Qwn g b ran( j new 1982
FOR SALE OR RENT—Arrowhead; LR, kitchen, 2BR, bath. Furnished, $17,000.
qUEEN ANNE - Attract aI f\i on large comer lot. Features LR-DR CAPE COLONY - Shingle home on canal features LR, kitchen, 3 BR, bath, 56’ X 12’ Conner home lOr ■
B combo, kitchen, family room mjl|J»R, 2 baths, garage. ' garage. Private boat ramp. $39,000.
v wl< , *179.46 per month.
ssr grear ” m B , SERO ad_ rr . BR . *»«., inciudeslurnis „, ngaoDUance , Bdellvw ■
K ’ ’ carport on Vi acre lot. $39,000.
HWY. 17 S. Only 1 mile from C\>me with LR, kitchen, DR, bath, 3
I BR, screened front porch. Nice RIVERTON - Attractive Yj features LR * den ’ kitchen> utilit y
I IIWY t7 —Owner financing. 12 year old home on large wooded lot; features LR, room, 3 BR, 2 baths, rpo
| den, dining area, kitchen, 3 BR,IVi baths,,s42,ooo. • BUILDING LOTS Open every week night til 8
I $33» PER MONTH will purchase this brick, 8 yr. old home on Vi acre lot featuring _
I i k ripn kitchen 3 BR, 2 baths. Located in Riverton. $55,900.
bella vista i/z acre, wooded. $12,500 Clem Currin John Grott
MORGAN PARK - Luxury home with 3,000 ft. Including LR, °R, kitchen, 3 BR, 2 others, too numerous to list. . T _ rr ..
baths, solarium, library, wc. room, workshop, full acre lot More. $88,500 Jerald Perry Terry Jones
Haywood Jones
printed marketing mer
handise.
“It’s just another twist to
an old routine. They call our
business and professional
people and high-pressure
them into buying their
products. “We’ve received
complaints about this scam
from Boone to Salter Path,”
Edmisten said about the
seventh lawsuit filed within
recent months in a con
tinuing crackdown on frauds
against North Carolina
businesses. (Complaints
have also come to the at
torney general’s office from
Belews Creek, Kinston,
Rutherfordton, Thomasville
and Winston -Salem).
Edmisten attributes the
growing ' success of his
crackdown to “people
reading or hearing about it
in the news” and to the
“constant vigilance” of
Better Business Bureaus,
merchants’ associations
and chambers of commerce
in the state who forward
complaints to the attorney
general’s consumer
protection office.
The court order tem
porarily restrains the firm
from violating any elements
of the state contest law,
misrepresenting the quality
of its products (including
gifts or prizes), making
false claims about “discount
prices”, substituting gifts or
prizes with items of lesser
value than promised and
threatening legal action
against dissatisfied
customers who refuse or
return merchandise they
were led to believe was
purchased with a money
back guarantee.
A typical complaint
against American
Marketing from a consumer
states that a salesman
implied in a telephone call
that a valuable “prize” (a
half-carat diamond on an 18-
inch, 14K gold chain) would
be shipped if he would agree
to place an order for
promotional items im
printed with his business
name.
The customer said he
became suspicious when his
alleged “investment quality
diamond necklace” and his
$378 order arrived in the
same C.O.D. package in
sured for only S3OO. Shortly
after he refused the ship
ment he was threatened
with legal action and was
told, in a call to the firm’s
salesman, that there never
was a contest, that he was
not a “top prize winner” as
initially claimed, that the
necklace was actually
valued “up to $300” and that
“this is just the way we do
business.”
Edmisten said, “They
cannot do business in North
Carolina this way. Our
consumer law clearly
protects our citizens from
deceptive sales practices.”
North Carolina’s year-old
“contest law” provides that
if a seller or promotor says
“You’ve won!” or
“Congratulations!” then a
person can presume that a
contest was held and expect
to receive the prize within
ten days at no obligation,
including not listening to
the, chowm HERALfi,
any sales talk.
If the terms “may win” or
“are eligible to win” are
used, the seller or promoter
must tell the actual dollar
value of the prize, the odds
of winning it and how many
are to be awarded. The
words “selected” and
“chosen” can only be used if
the person’s name was
selected from an actual
drawing of names to select
winners, but not from a
telephone book, a mailing
list or similar common
source.
A hearing in the state’s
suit is scheduled for
January 21 in Wake County
Superior Court when the
state will ask for a
preliminary injunction
against the firm.
Heart Attack Victims Sought
One-time heart attack
victims ages 29 through 64
are currently being sought
to participate in a study
which lowers cholesterol to
unprecedented levels.
With heart disease
claiming 800,000 lives an
nually, the National In
stitutes of Health is funding
four research centers across
the country to explore the
role of lowered cholesterol
in the treatment of heart
attack victims.
The East Coast Center,
which opened a short time
ago, is located in
Philadelphia, Pa. The
MR. BUSINESSMAN. . .
LET US BE YOUR
A VIA TION SER VICE!
Our service comes complete with pilots and planes
(single and multi-engine, charter flights for up to 4
people) and features pressurized cabins and reasonable
rates.
We are a federally registered and licensed agency.
★ Air Ambulance Service And Aircraft
Maintenance Available Upon Request ★
FIRST FLIGHT
AIR SER VICE, INC.
Rt. 2, Box 2948 - Columbia, N.C.
Phone: 796-1038 or 473-3000
Call Collect For Confirmation Or Information.
Great Seal of U.S.
College Computer
A college credit course
which gives an introduction
to computers and their use
in business establishments
will be available to area
residents through their
home television sets and
Beaufort County Com
munity College started
January 16.
This four-credit-hour
telecourse, “Making It
Count,” will be aired on
center provides tran
sportation and lodging for
all prospective participants
and an interested family
member to come in for a
screening visit.
Persons 29 through 64 who
have suffered one heart
attack within the last five
years are urged to contact
the Hyperlipidemia Study
for more information. Call,
toll-free 1-800-362-5244
(Pennsylvania only) and
out-of-state- 1-800-345-1057.
Mexico it estimated to have
enough oil to supply all U.S.
needs for the next 40 years.
Three-toed Sloth
Course Available
WUNC-TV every Saturday
morning from 9 A. M. until
10 A. M. and may be viewed
in this area on Channel 2,
Columbia. In addition to
viewing the telecourse
for twelve weeks, stu
dents will read assign
ments in the textbook and
complete the quiz for each of
the 23 lessons.
On Campus Workshops
are also required during the
twelve weeks to permit
students to discuss the
televised lessons, visit the
computer center and view
actual hardware, and ask
any questions that may have
arisen during the course.
Registration fee for the
course - EDP 251 - In
troduction to Data
Processing - is sl3 and may
be paid by mail. Textbook
cost is $20.35.
Become
A Millionaire.
ft can happen
with an IRA.
Bank of North Carolina
Member FDIC
Edenton Hertford Hobbsville
482-4431 426-5723 297-2131
History Os Dollar Bill
If you’ve ever studied the
backside of a dollar bill you
know that America’s
national bird, the bald
eagle, clutches an olive
branch in his right talon and
13 arrows in the left -
symbolizing America’s
desire for peace and its
willingness to fight for
freedom.
And nearly every
schoolchild knows that the
bald eagle is now an en
dangered species
throughout most of its
former range. Once
abundant from coast to
coast, these big, fierce
looking birds are now
numerous only in Alaska
and Canada.
But few people realize
that the bald eagle wasn’t
even on the list of con
tenders when three of the
nation’s founding fathers -
Thomas Jefferson, John
Adams and Benjamin
Franklin - were named by
the Continental Congress to
design our national seal and
symbol. That was on July 4,
1776, the same day the
colonists declared their
independence from
England.
It took six years, three
committes, and several
Page 3-B
artists to come up with a
seal featuring the now
familiar spread eagle,
according to the current
issue of National Wildlife
magazine. The original
blue-ribbon committee
leaned toward mythological
and Biblical figures, the
magazine reports, and
apparently the only other
animal considered for ap
pearance on the seal was the
sloth -a slow -moving, tree
dwelling tropical creature
associated with laziness and ,
indolence.
The story of how the bald
eagle beat out the sloth -
and other characters - is
told in the bimonthly
publication of the National
Wildlife Federaion as the
nation prepares to observe
1982 as “The Year of the
Eagle.” Resolutions are
pending in both houses of
Congress to commemorate
June 20, 1982, as the 200th
Anniversary of the day the
Continental congress
adopted the eagle as our
national symbol.
The sloth, a native of
Central and South America
usually seen hanging upside
down, appeared in a seal
design suggested by John
Continued On Page 8-B