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city officials
and the mayor $75,000.
Two other groups - the East Dal-
las Chamber of Commerce and Citi-
zens for Responsible Growth - also
urged the charter committee to in-
crease the number of single-member
districts.
The charter committee is ex-
pected to make its recommendations
to the council in early June.
Council members, who hope to
call a charter amendment election
for Aug. 12, will start conducting
public meetings in their districts on
Wednesday.
The first meeting will be held by
council member Jerry Bartos in Dis-
trict 3 in northwest Dallas. The meet-
ing will be at the Walnut Hill Ele-
mentary School, 10115 Midway Road,
at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.
donations
marked "travel expenses." Al-
though he did not question it at the
time, Mr. Harrell testified, he now
views that as "wrong" and "im-
proper accounting."
Mr. Harrell also said he did not
think he had broken any election
laws or committed other wrongdo-
ing in connection with political
donations made by Commodore's
employees.Residents told to beware
of company's mail offerContinued from Page 27A. to in-
quire or complain about the let-
ters.
He estimates that at least 10,000
people have received the solicita-
tions in the last several weeks.
The promotion also has drawn
the ire of the U.S. Postal Service,
which contends it may constitute
an illegal lottery.
The company behind the letters
is Puradyne of Nashville, which
sells water purification and treat-
ment systems.
John Lewis, general manager of
the company, said the gift offer is
part of a legitimate, long-range
marketing plan aimed at selling
water purifiers in areas of the
country known to have bad water.
"Our approach is if we do some-
thing good for you now, you're
more likely to purchase a water
purifier from us in the next 90
days," Mr. Lewis said.
"It's a very, very expensive
marketing plan, but we are a
financially sound corporation and
we are able to do something like
this."
Mr. Lewis said people who
receive the letters do not have to
claim their gifts. And he said they
are informed that they would have
to pay for hotel accommodations if
they were awarded the airfare.
He said the $26.50 fee covers ad-
ministrative costs, and "90 percentof the time" the individuals who
participate will receive a round-
trio airline ticket to Florida.
If they accept the gift, in 90
days "they will start receiving
mail correspondence from us," Mr.
Lewis said.
"We will be offering our water
systems for sale, but they don't
have to buy them," he said. The
systems range in cost from $39 to
$1,300.
He said that since the company
instituted the marketing plan in
January, it has awarded roughly
11,000 gifts.
"We target areas of the country
that have water that needs clean-
ing up," Mr. Lewis said. "You just
can't believe how frustrated we
are. We have just about raised
every eyebrow in the country with
this."
Among them have been those
of Postal Service officials in Nash-
ville. On May 10, the postal inspec
tor there won a temporary re-
straining order in federal district
court against The Processing Cen-
ter, which is prohibited from re-
ceiving replies from people want-
ing to claim their gifts.
"We're trying to determine
whether or not they (Puradyne)
have produced a lottery," said a
spokeswoman for the inspector's
office who asked not to be identi-
fied.:rtz Three Day
Cage.For $89, rent a car
standard features.h Wednesday, May 17, 1989
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