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Until three years ago,
prospective Bette Bonn
enrollees could telephone the
Better Business Bureau (BBB)
for a report on the modeling
and charm school instruction.
The BBB referred inquirers to
former Bette Bonn clients,
related details of legal conflicts
between Bette Bonn
International and the Iowa
attorney general's office and
stated that the modeling school
would not supply lists of
models associated with the
firm.
But the BBB now maintains
a silence about the Bette Bonn
operation, pending the
outcome of a lawsuit filed by
Ledwith against the BBB.
The suit, filed in February
1972, charges the BBB
"repeatedly disseminated false,
misleading and inaccurate
information concerning Bette
Bonn and her business."
Such information, the suit
contends, "contains statements
inpugning the veracity and
honesty of Bette Bonn and her
business and advising people
not to deal with the modeling
and charm school."
The suit charges the BBB
report on Bette Bonn is "false
and malicious" and was made
"recklessly without sufficient
investigation."
Lincoln attorney Lloyd
Marti, senior partner in Marti,
Dal ton, Bruckner, O'Gara and
Keating, attorneys for the
Cornhusker Better Business
Bureau, said recently that in
filing suit against the BBB,
Bette Bonn was "challenging
the BBB's right to disseminate
any information about Bette
Bonn or anyone else."
No fight in the press
Marti said it was on his
advice that the BBB ceased
giving information about Bette
Bonn to the public, adding that
such a ban would probably
continue until the suit was
settled in court. He refused to
give specific information about
the BBB's files on the modeling
school, saying, "We don't need
to fight Bette Bonn in the
. press,"
Jerry Fennel of the
Nebraska attorney general's
office said last week he Jias
started checking into the Bette
Bonn operation in Nebraska
after discovering that his
predecessor, Terry Shaw, had
collected some complaints
against the firm,
Lincoln area department
stores report no market for
trained models. Most stores use
sales personnel as models
whenever the need arises,
according to Liz Wcekes of
Miller and Paine's advertising
d?p2rtirint.
And for more sophisticated
advertising, such as television
commercials, her store relics on
the talents of KOLN's Sheri
Erway, Weekes said.
Overrun with volunteers
Lee Schoonover, fashion
coordinator for Uovland
Swanson, said his department
is overrun -with women
volunteering to model and,
with the exception of
Hovland's fashion model Gaylc
Warren, his store has no need
to hire professional models.
While Magee's sometimes
hires a professional model for
fashion projects, Marjorie
Mengshol of the store's
advertising department stressed
"not the Bette Bonn student."
She said that for most
Magee's fashion shows her firm
works with members of local
social groups and uses their
members as models.
Recent Bette Bonn .
daily nebraskan
advertising mentions modeling
work at the Sheraton Inn
fashion shows and at KUON's
"TV Auction." Sheraton
manager Richard Block said
Monday his hotel does use "a
couple of Bette Bonn models
for our Tuesday and Thursday
noontime shows."
He said the models are paid
about $10 each per show.
KUON's "TV Auction"
coordinator Mary Hillegas said
the Bette Bonn school had
volunteered models for this
year's fund-raising project. She
said KUON was not paying for
the models' services.
District court case
In a district court case tried
in Des Moines last July, Iowa
Attorney General Richard
Turner charged Bette Bonn
International with violations of
the Iowa Consumer Fraud Act,
contending that Bette Bonn
used advertisements in the help
wanted section of the local
newspaper to attract
prospective clients who were
then persuaded to enroll in
modeling courses.
Trie Findings of Fact and
Conclusions of Law issued by
Judge Dale S. Missildine stated
that "Bette Bonn Ledwith
would generally begin the
interview by telling the
prospect that they were
definitely modeling material."
In a further section,
Missildine stated that Ledwith
"represented that she had
immediately available, paying
modeling jobs which would be
given to girls who decided to
come in with her and that they
could expect to begin to obtain
paid modeling assignments
immediately, as there were
more paying modeling jobs
available in the Des Moines
area than the defendant had
girls to fill and that they could
expect to make anywhere from
$1 5 to $50 an hour as stated in
the help wanted ads. Toward
the end of the interview Bette
Bonn, would inform the
prospective customer that prior
to being eligible to obtain one
of the advertised modeling jobs
that she would first have to
pay for and take the Bette
Bonn 'professional model
-training course'."
Missildine also stated "Many
of the witnesses did not receive
any modeling assignments
while they were taking the
defendant's course, a few of
the witnesses received one or
two modeling jobs while they
were taking the course and
several of the witnesses
received a number of modeling
jobs during the time they took
the course. However, most of
the individuals who did in fact
obtain modeling jobs through
the defendant during the time
they were taking the
defendant's course were not
paid for the job. Many of the
witnesses had paid for the
course in full and were not
paid by the defendant for
modeling jobs performed by
them."
Missildirie ruled that Bette
Bonn had violated the Iowa
Consumer Fraud Act, ordered
her to make restitution to 29
former modeling students in .
the total amount of $10,558
and entered an order for
permanent injunction against
Bette Bonn Ledwith.
ASUN Agenda
Today, 6:30 p.m. Nebraska Union
I. Fxecutivc Report
A. CSL
B. Regents Meeting
C. Appointments
II. Open Forum
III. Old Business
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A. Resolution No. 7 Oklahoma vs. Nebraska Football Game
Migration
B. Resolution No. 8 Student Fees Committee
C. Resolution No. 9 Regent Action on Faculty Tenure
D. Resolution No. 1 Government Bill
V. Announcements
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