European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 29, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday. February 29.1988 the stars and stripes page9 new phone firms raise concerns called alternative operator services Washington a Patricia Rossi had thought that. As administrative a Utal to the chairman of the Rhode Wand i Kuhtic utilities commission she was familiar with Telephone companies and their rain. He Shir was surprised and outraged when she was billed 4.v7h for a iwo minute phone Cal from St. Be Skriburg. Fla. In her Home a Providence. R.i., by a company she had never heard of. Whim i saw ilm. I Laid what s going on their Rales Are triple at at  said Rossi. But it was t just the Money i though someone should explain Why the Call had t been handled by american Telephone & Telegraph in. Whose credit card number she gave the operator and whose Price for the Call would Nave Hcan less than ii. She Saij. The company Ilia handled inc Call was Contra corp. Bawd in fort Lauderdale fla., one of a few 0" for an operator arc Rould to inc aos. An pc rain eels Billing information and then sends Ilie Call Una a line the aos leases from one of the Long distance earners. Many of the Cullers who get connected to an aos company Are those using a or Ceil card issued by a local Bill operating company or at to since those cards require callers to Start by dealing "0." aos companies say their operator identify their companies and Ihal callers can request that they be Transf red loan at to operator at no charge. Callers Asing a card from another Long distance company dial a local or 800 number to reach their network bypassing aos operators. The problem is that people Are jus dealing As they historically have done and their Call is being intercepted and hey Don t real inc Erml j happening until they receive the Bill said j. Alan Taylor of the Florida Public service commission. The Federal communications commission with control Over inc interstate Long disc acc Telephone Industry has authority to regulate resellers who buy and sell Lime from Long distance carriers like at to Sci  corp. And us sprint communications co nut the acc has not set limits on aos Rales. We re looking into the service As a whole said Kathie Knyff of the acc s Telephone enforcement division which received its first complaint about an aos company six months ago and now has about so. Jeffrey Sklaver n consultant at Mclean   inc., hid aos companies Are posing an interesting problem to the acc because no one has Ever charged More than Atit. Ail the resellers were in business to charge less than  the acc can Fine aos companies thai Don t answer consumer complaints but a Jiff said the companies generally have been responsive. Most Consumers like Rossi who have complained to the acc about an aos Bill have received refunds . In Florida the Public utilities commission is considering requiring aos companies to charge Rales no higher than those allowed for at to. Tennessee regulators Are proposing to prohibit the local phone companies from providing Bill inf services for aos companies that charge rates higher than at to s. The Virginia utilities commission in january advised Consumers calling from hotels hospitals and pay phones to ask operators what company they work for and How much they charge. If it is not the Long a Isiacc phone company with whom you normally do business the commission warns thai you arc dealing at your own  the com Mission told Consumers Gabe Ballista of National Telephone services an aos based in Rockville md., rejects charges of Price gouging saying his company is trying to compete with at to in Price and Quality of service. He declined to release the company s rates but said its charges for a Call arc usually within is of at to s Price for the same operator assisted Call. Central s Freeman said regulatory efforts to lie aos Long distance Rales to those of at to arc unjustified. The travelling Public docs not i pct to pay the same for a Long distance Cal from a hotel As they do at Home he said adding that at to s Rales arc not Sac  aos companies less than 2 years old found their Niche in the Market after at to slopped paying com missions to Hock on inc Long distance Calls made by their guests. These companies now arc offering 15 percent and 20 percent commissions to attract that business along with hospitals universities and pay phone vendors. Callers generally can make credit card collect and third party billed Calls through an aos company. Bell phone company cards Are accepted since the aos companies have Billing agreements with the Bell Compa Nies and some companies accept Mastercard. Visa and of her or Ceil cards. The aos s charge for the Call is then included in the caller s local phone Bill though it appears on a separate Page with the aos company s name. Swaggart tried to make Deal on photographs paper reports Baton Rouge. La. A Jimmy Swaggart attempted to make a Deal with a fellow evangelist who had photographs showing him entering and leaving a Motel with a known prostitute a newspaper reported saturday. Meanwhile presidential candidate Pat Robertson said he made a Slop at a Raton Rouge Airport saturday to support fellow evangelist swae Carl because in christianity we Don i shoot our  Robertson said Swaggart was in seclusion Al his walled family compound routinely guarded by Security officers and the two fell a personal visit to the Home would expose him to further in needed scrutiny by the  Rob Mon s Brief Airport appearance came while be was in route to hunks Ville ala., t Tim Houston. The Republican presidential hopeful said he had talked twice by phone to swagman on saturday. I told him i want to see him won restored to his pulp and continue again his magnificent  there was no indication saturday As to when assemblies of god officials in Louisiana might Shumil new punishment proposals for swagman to reportedly paid ii prostitute to pose naked. I would Noi have any comment on that. I m sorry you know. I just Don t have any  the Rev. Cecil Jan Way District  of the Church s Louisiana District Council said saturday. Swagman has not appeared in Public or commented since his fearful Public con. Fesjian feb. 21 to unspecified sins against his wife family and Church. Neither the Church nor Marvin Gor Man the defrocked assemblies of god minister who reportedly confronted Upp held Debra Murphree talks with reporters. Swaggart with photographs documenting his indiscretions has said exactly Whai they were. Gut admitted prostitute Debra Murph acc has claimed Swaggart paid her to pose naked and Lalk dirty to him. She said they did not have Intercourse. She to tied to sell her Story to the National enquirer for si00,000, but the tabloid rejected her offer ofter she failed a lie Detector test senior editor Paul Levy said Friday. Murphree Lold Wavue to on Friday that nervousness drug use and inability to remember some of the questions caused the failure before the pictures were Given to Church officials Swaggart offered to help Gorman return to the assemblies of god and to have Gorman appear on his Tele vision show according to unidentified sources quoted in saturday s editions of the times Picayune in new Orleans. Gorman who claimed in a j90 Mil lion lawsuit against Swaggart and 13 of Hen that Swaggart Dusl Royce Gor Man s ministry by spreading Dumois of numerous adulterous affairs refused to comment on inc report. So did officials Al Jimmy swagman ministries in Baton Rouge. The sources which inc newspaper de scribed As clone to Gorman said Gor Man Lold swagman he was t especially interested in either offer and gave swag Gart four months to Deal with his person Al problems the newspaper quo cd ils sources us saying that Swaggart appeared truly repentant and Gorman left the meeting satisfied Ihal Swaggart was ready to sect inc counsel of Church ciders and accept their advice. Gorman wrote Swaggart Early this month to remind him of the deadline the newspaper said but when there was no response people close to Gorman gave the photographs to National Assem Blies of god leaders in Springfield to. . Chamberlain a Louisiana presbyter who said Friday thai ii was swag Girt s Complete confession not favor it ism that prompted a recommendation for an unusually Short three month suspension had no com ment saturday the Council recommended monday thai Swaggart undergo two years of rehabilitation and counselling starting with a three month suspension from preaching in the United slates. Army Retiree claims pair of distinctions fort Ord Calif. Al1 a Man who first joined the military when he was just i3 years old has retired Afler More than 2 years of service. I m proud. The army s been my entire life my Home. My family Masir so. Gil Beil in Mora 52, said Al Friday s ceremony. The army believes Zamora was the last korean War combat Veter an still on Active duly and the youngest american Soldier since the civil War. According to Zamura s record he lied about his age and joined the California National guard in 1949 Al the age of 13. The los Angeles icon Agar was ordered to Active duty in 1951. Al the Start of the korean War. Bui his parents found out and told the army he was a juvenile. I was oui of the army in three hours he said ii broke my heart and i refused to go Home Al  he joined up again when he was 17 in 1953, in Lime to fight in the korean War s vicious Ballac of pork chop Hilt Dunhill daughter Dies London a Mary Dunhill. The Lut surviving child of Alfred Dunhill founder of the tobacco and pipe making com Pany has died at the age of 81. Death notices said saturday