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Page 8 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1979 Crackdown to expose mail crooks and swindlers United Press International WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service, citing a $500 million mail fraud loss to consumers each year, said Wednesday it will begin a new program to expose and publicize mail crooks. “The con men who use the mails are few in number, but they have been so successful that their very existence stains the good reputation of the mail order industry, ” said Postmaster General William Bolger. Bolger said mail fraud investigators with experience in thefts from consumers will be stationed in 18 cities where the service has its headquarters offices. They will work with consumer protection groups and other inves tigative agencies “tracing closer than ever before the activities of the fly-by-night swindler to better inform the public,” he told a news conference. “They’ll make sure that any operation that smacks of mail fraud comes quickly to the attention of the public over the entire nation. BOOT PICTURES We've been doing 'em since 1920. Now new pack age offerings available for The Finest in Military Portraiture at University Studio 846-8019 Northgate Baptist Student Union TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY 846-7722 Speakers: Ann Kiemel, Leighton Ford, Doug Ezell Cost — $23.00 (Housing, transportation, food) Leave Friday 3:00 or 6:00 (on bus) When you can’t decide whether the ‘cranial ver tebra’ is the ‘neck bone’ or the ‘thigh bone,’ you know you need a break. No bones about it, you’ll enjoy the Texas Baptist Student Convention. 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James Weaver, D-Ore., lost by a voice vote in his proposal to peg prices of wheat, corn and soybean exports at 80 percent of parity. He said this would end a practice of ex porting grain cheap while U.S. con sumers “pay dear.” Chairman Thomas Foley, D-Wash., of the House Agriculture Committee, said Weaver’s idea that this country can do with wheat and corn what OPEC has done with oil is “sophisticated nonsense.” The House also rejected a propo sal to limit exports of hides to 56 percent of total U.S. production in a move to protect the leathergoods industry. House leaders joined members from the West and Midwest in de nouncing the proposed restriction on hides exports. The measure was condemned as protectionist, de signed to help the leather goods producers at the expense of cattle growers and the consumer. It was defeated 186-218. The sponsor. Rep. James M Shannon, D-Mass., said the cattle industry will export 24 million ofthe 34 million hides it produces tliis year, leaving only 10 million fora domestic market that needs 19 mil lion. Without protection, Shannoa said, the price of shoes will soar while jobs of 400,000 leathergoods workers may become threatened. WASHU rjection 0 elevision i ampaign c The com f the limit just revise Either h The reg /ague of n g preside The Fed ect the rej rith its res Plan misivorded from start Miami voters defeat tax cut United Press International MIAMI — Greater Miami’s novel form of metropolitan government survived another crisis Tuesday when voters overwhelmingly re jected a property tax cut proposal that would have impoverished county operations. The proposal was a mistake from the time it was conceived more than a year ago by Harry L. Wilson, a retired pet supplies salesman dis gruntled at rising property taxes on his Coral Gables home. He worded his petition to cut taxes by 99.95 percent instead of the 50 percent he intended and no one caught the error until too late. Nearly 37 percent of Dade Coun ty’s registered voters cast ballots. They defeated the proposal, by a 65-35 percentage. With all but the 4,000 absentee ballots tabulated from Dade’s 462 precincts, the count showed 165,140 votes against the tax cut and 89,200 in favor. Leaders across the spectrum ol Miami life — labor uniom, churches, professionals, business and industry — banded togethei with politicians from Gov. Bol Graham on down in unprecedented unity to fight the tax cut. The) raised nearly $300,000 and spent most of it in a final week advertising blitz. The 58-year-old Wilson, at last report, had spent less than $2,500 Wilson started his drive last yen to cut in half the property tax col lected for day-to-day operations of Dade’s $1 billion-a-year county gov ernment. He meant to cap the opes ations tax collection at $4 for ead $1,000 assessed. Instead, he mistakenly wrotr “four mills per $1,000 valuation"on his petition. That translates to only) cents tax per $1,000 assessed. The metro county commission and courts refused Wilson’s re quests to rewrite the proposal afiei he had collected 15,000 certified signatures of voters. If Wilson’s proposal had passed Tuesday, officials estimated tie county would have collected $91,000 from property taxes for its Bid Cart WAS HI leals by s- mnouncen myone s n So far, ! lounceme December ‘The dei rhether C et decide A group nnouncen raid Kent JONES 1 efers to h 0-foot sea would h “I’m jus Pitts, 21 hree year ilbert Ce nibs in tl When h iim overb “The wa nbelieval Seas we bn three waiting for The ere' ffshore tr operations, instead of the $173 mil lion that has been budgeted. British leads Unitec WASHIN H will warns U.S. against Chink, GRAND OPENING SPECIALS Thurs.-Fri.-Sat. 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Wilson, speaking Tuesday night at Texas Tech University, said he has seen a softening in the West’s attitude toward Chi na’s expansion, but that has not altered his own impressions. “I do not trust them,” he said “They are just as communist as Russia.” The British statesman, whore- signed as prime minister in 1976, said he was disturbed by the concept that there are “goodies and baddies in the world.” He said Russia has been con sidered the “bad guy” for along time and the feeling has followed that “Russians hate Chinese, therefore the Chinese must be the goodies.” But Wilson strongly dis agreed, saying, “Russia would think twice, three times, four times, five times (about starting war) in view of its vulnerability to China. There is little danger of Russia starting (a war). Their economy is too vulnerable.” in Wi bist Mads ourt ordi ,_a spok erence , sdav. 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