European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 19, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes August i1 0 you think you Are being ripped off by a firm with dubious business  did you sign your financial life so to and now feel Are you afraid theres to Way out and that you must just cont few to and pay Peter Duffy of the office of the Usa eur judge v advocate is very interested in hearing from particularly if youre i want to  to f like to try wild help military personnel who Are having hed particularly like to hear anyone doing Ness with any company or collection Agency at Erhard 11 in this is us address of the Headquarters of transatlantic marketing firm put of limits by the Usa eur armed forces disciplinary con tool boar for unethical business practices Selling books arid other it is against military regulations or a member1 of the armed forces make out an business the regulation was put into effect to protect the Serviceman or woman but the Captain says it is being circumvented Fay businesses out to gel the go they have the military person Send an allotment to a savings account in the after giving them a Power of that gives the collection company the right to take the soldiers Money out of his savings and Transfer it to the collection company for sergeant Jones wants a new wardrobe some really Eye catching civilian clothes but Doest have much some off base clothing stores will Tell him he can buy All the Dudi he do All he has la do is make of an allotment of a month or so and sign a Power of until the Soldier stops the the business can keep unless Tho allotment specifics it is Only for a limited under one opened allotment with no time one Soldier found hed paid something like p50 for 500 Worth mow you can help 0 you want to help a Man who wants to help you Peter office of the usar eur judge is try ing la keep an Eye out for firms and business practices that rip off do hed like to know if you know anyone doing business with firms that list the following addresses Box or retard Straw s Manlich four firms placed off limits to Mili tary personnel for dubious business practices have worked Oul of the Liechtenstein the Munich now being used by a collection was the address of another business declared off very Little we can do when a firm weve placed of limits changes Ila name and begins doing business with soldiers says but perhaps 1 can help people who find they Are dealing with firms at those addresses and having problems to get Legal Duffy also would like information about any insurance company that hires military personal As if you have nun or com plaints about businesses or business prac Send the information to consumer editorial stare and Apo of clothes he was told he  get he Back the allotment setup was being Harr fled by col Tow not Only in Purchase but also of photo furniture anything a firm can think of Selling a Iol Aeron 4 in a series of and stripes reporter George Eberl Learned that the Stamford National Bank of new York a town of More than such at the Iasi the1 forces disciplinary control Board was expressed Over presented a Leue Rilat had Beensen Bank in the by the now lathe the arms Edward Row asked the Bank to set up an a torment Budness with j Tose wrote that the Ope Rillon would j work As follows viv1 x our company works together Ullh Oiler companies dealing with the forces these companies sell everything from photography programs on a Tim payment basis their Coli Octlona via sayings Tow scr Viceman pays monthly  Between 12 and m payment is made via allot ment to a financial institution and is obtain a Power of attorney Over los soldiers and As us monthly payments come in they Are washed through each individual Serviceman account and transferred to our we Are currently paying a service charge of so cents per payment to the Duffy torpedoed the proposed ban firm business arrangement when he wrote the Banks director and id formed him that transatlantic had been put Oft Rose was then informed that the Bank want inter ested in doing business with him under the circumstance in any Duffy ii angry about the whole Allol Roen collection Agency it makes the Lery the than a sitting one for be v recently a Soldier came to me with the complaint that time payments for books hed been turned Over to a collection Agency without his being told we found out that this collection Agency is at the same address that transatlantic marketing Sayu but the address want Given on the contract sent the Soldier which meant that though he legally has seven Days in which to change his mind and cancel his Tim payment he had nowhere Send such an advice of Duffy is aware that Many unethical companies that prey on servicemen make a practice of Chehi Ging their names when put of the same addresses just keep popping up again and an army an air Force major and Navy Captain conducted tace last disciplinary control Board meeting during which a China regal was declared off r the which also goes under the Ikui Paschal la is located Al Hans Sra we 7 in Selling Tor a very High Price and was being my Suepre sealed by the explains it was being sold As Lead which Means it must have a Lead oxide and Lead count of 24 per we had it Analysed by a German chemist and found in some cases it contained Only per cent Lead and per cent Lead oxide and in other cases Crystal from the same sales company being sold by another it contained Only w per cent Lead and 1 per cent Lead this firm has been off limits once this unless the company refunds Money to Duffy sees Little Chance of it being another item of concern also was brought up at on Board meeting military men working As Sef crawl for in we had complaints that one company was using Mili tary personnel As said and we were considering placing this company off they assured us Board that though this had of cared in uie r was by regulation military Are not allowed to solicit business on military and to receive accreditation by the adjutant w Misur Ance company must have licensed from what we neither of these prerequisites were followed by the modern living computers capable of playing  exhibiting at Boston University him exhibit of u a system sell for about he Cost of Good wat my minced by radio which new technology brought prices of equipment As shown in the popular pocket and digital watches whose Hava dipped sharply in the past few and Buchan Der trend is expected to units for Are still but for a whole lot less Money than it takes to buy a new you can buy a fairly sophisticated he one system on display for 1sjso can make a family budget in a spending categories or play half a Down sophisticated video ranging from backgammon and Stock Manchiv to lunar the user tries to land an imaginary spaceship on the Moon using Only flew Jufeirt bursts of braking the computer calculates each burst and tells the user of he has made a perfect land shot himself Back out into space or used up All his fuel and until toe main customers far microcomputer have been compiler ii Jtj Trenton and Atlantic and Dallas 5 even have their own with such names As rom Andrea mate byte is a term referring to in lab of computer memory capacity rom is a Type of memory system but the Market is now bpm entered by two major consumer  radio Shack and us hath which has for decades sold Heath kit products such As radios and Stareo the radio Shack system exhibited at the fair is expected to he available in some stores h consta of a cassette tape recorder used w run programs into the an integrated  keyboard and computer and a Small television set to display tape cassette programs toe computer Bow to do so Dulu win Wain radio to do payroll or n to is people in a teach Clam Heath has advertised that computer Ilia act user Saya someday it will be used to read to Blind people Sod hooted to an alarm system give Vittal such As theres a tire in the East Side of the r