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FROM THE ARCHIVEMay 6, 1962·Washington, District of Columbia

BLIND TEACHER SEES MANHATTAN

Scanned from Evening Star, May 6, 1962
BLIND TEACHER SEES MANHATTAN
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Hi a 1 1 p. I NEW WONDERS TO BEHOLD Leonard Ecker 34 Bay City Mich high school teacher who has been blind since infancy goes sightseeing for the first time on an excursion boat circling Manhattan. Mr Ecker whose vision was partly restored after a corneal transplant operation on one eye is accompanied by his wife Rosemary 34 and the crafts skipper Capt Charles Hyde of Livingston N JAP Wirephoto insurance. I Public Told to Beware Os False Literature Continued From Pace Al State company stop sending deceptive literature into the State via the mails.

What has been done has been done almost wholly through cooperation he said t. The FTC does not expect any jHflood of complaints against mail order insurance companies Recording to Daniel J Murphy Oilier of the Bureau of Decep tive Practices Several hun dred companies are operating lh the mail order field he esti mated chiefly in the accident Mnd health automobile and life policy lines. How much deceptive adver tising is carried on through the mails is virtually Impossible to determine Insurance regula tory officials in this area ap pear to frown on mall order companies if they are not 11 censed to.

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