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By FRANK JENKINS
Teletype chatter:
Communist sources say two
more delegations of British Labor
party members will visit behind
the iron curtain next month. The
Polish embassy in London says a
group of eight to ten Labor mem'
bers of parliament will visit in
Poland for two weeks.
The London Daily Worker (com
munist party newspaper) reports
that a Laborite delegation wnicn
will include two members of par
liament will travel to East Ger
many. .
Former Prime Minister Clement
Attlee and seven other Labor party
leaders are now touring red China.
where they are being entertained
lavishly.
As the VIP's say when they are
rnminff out nf an imrjortant con
ference: "No comment." And be
sides I wouldn't know.
But
nirrt nf a feather flock toseth
er and the British Laborltes are
socialists and the communists call
themselves socialists.
If the British Laborltes 'go
4hrnimh Urith Ulhlt RPPtTIS til be
their present program and get
back into power in Britain and
make some kind 01 aeai wun me
commies, they'll wind up wishing
they hadn't.
Big shot communists (of the
kind that make the deals) aren't
human.
There's another oddly Interest
ing tale on we wires, mam
prime minister Nehru, whose pub
lic utterances leave little doubt
that as between America and
communism he'll take a chance on
communism, has Just come under
sharp attack In his own country
from the leader of the 60 million
members of the "untoucnabie
caste of Hindus.
tTia untouchables' 1 e a d e
charges In a foreign policy debate
in the Indian parliament at New
Delhi that Nehru's policy of peace
ful coexistence with the comunists
has been adopted without any seri
ous consideration of the welfare of
the masses of the people of India.
-u aHH that. Khru'R nolicv seems
to be one of HOSTILITY toward
the United States ana tolerance to
ward communism.
For four thousand years India
has had a rigid caste system. It
started when the Invading Aryans
conquered the native , Dravldians.
The caste system was developed to
separate the conquering race from
the conquered. Four castes were
formed priests ana scnoiars,
rulers and warriors, merchants
and artisans and unskilled work
ers. All who didn't fall into these
castes were pariahs, outcasts and
untouchables. These castes be
came rigid social divisions, with
no one permitted to rise above tne
caste Into which he was born. The
system still prevails with few mod
ificatlons. Nehru Is a Brahman, the highest
of the castes. My impression of
him is that he Is a silk - stocking
do gooder who talks a good line
in the rarified upper atmosphere
in which he moves, but leaves the
poor devils of untouchables down
at the bottom right where they
were 4,000 years ago when the
caste system got started. He has
mild fits at times over the Iniquity
of the American system and its
so called Tobacco Roaders, but
he can't see India's untouchables
with a spyglass.
Anyway, the untouchables ap
pear to be getting onto his curves.
Their leader, as quoted in the dis
patch above referred to, would
quite apparently rather take a
chance on the Americans, Tobacco
Road and all, than on the commu
nists that Nehru keeps honeying up
to.
If their leader is speaking ac
curately for them, India's untouch.
ables, after several years of Brah
man Nehru, Rppear to be leaning
toward this thought: "Locusts and
grasshoppers, drouth and flood
and famine we can take in stride
if we must, but deliver us, O Lord
and Master, from the do-gooders.
Red Naval
Strength Told
WASHINGTON W Adm. Rob
ert B. Carney, chief of naval op
erations, said Saturday that So
viet Russia's developing strength
at sea is a challenge, and the
United States must exert Itself to
keep ahead.
Carney, addressing the national
security commission of the Ameri
can Legion, said the emergence of
Russia as "another power on the
seas, and one unfriendly to us"
is something about which we can
not afford to be complacent.
As he spoke, Legionnaires and
their families were pouring Into
the capital for their 36th annual
convention opening Monday.
The Navy leader said it is signi
ficant to note that 15 Russian cruis
ers and destroyers "a force not
be be laughed off" have moved
from the Bering Sea into the Bal
tic. He said the Soviets have learned
their lesson and realized that any
preeminence they aspire to will
have to be backed up at sea.
The Russians have three quart
ers of a million people in their
navy establishment and have
underway an effective building
plan "greater than our own at
the moment" he said.
Weyerhaeuser, CIO Settle
Springfield Mill Strike
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weyerhaeuser Timber Co and the
CIO Woodworkers settled their
strike Saturday at Springfield for
a 2 li-cent hourly pay boost while
an employer group was meeting
at Portland to try to bring pine
operations into the Oregon-Washington
governors' peace plan.
The Springfield settlement was
the first of the CIO-IWA local
agreements with Weyerhaeuser
and it follows the pattern of earlier
Two Die In
Happy Camp
Shooting
A 32-year-old California highway
patrolman, nephew of A Klamath
Falls woman, was killed in a gun
duel with a berserk and enraged
husband who also critically
wounded a waitress in a saloon
at Happy Camp, 60 miles south of
Yreka. Friday night. . The officer
shot his assailant through the
heart.
The gun battle occurred shortly
before S p.m. Friday in the Crab
Shack at Happy Camp.
Dead are Patrolman William
Chansler, 32, and Ivan Wesley
Lacey, 55. Chansler was the neph
ew of Mrs. Mario Pastega, 1943
Logan Street, Klamath Falls.
Edith Barney, waitress in the
Happy Camp bar, is in a critical
condition at Siskiyou General Hos
pital at Yreka. A slug from a 30
30 rifle struck her in the pelvis.
Highway patrolmen and sheriff's
deputies who Investigated the bar
room gun battle, reconstructed, the
affray as follows:
Lacey, armed with the 30-30
rifle followed his estranged wife
Into the barroom. When efforts to
persuade her to leave with him
failed, Lacey lined up the em
ployes and customers in the place
and threatened their lives. Mrs.
Lacey eluded her husband and fled
the place. -
Enraged over his wife's escape,
Lacey denounced Miss Barney, the
waitress, for "helping his wife get
away." As he opened fire with the
rifle hitting the waitress with his
first shot, Patrolman Chansler en
tered the barroom. -
Lacey whirled and shot Chansler
in the stomach as he entered the
front door. The wounded officer
pulled his revolver as he lay on
the floor and shot Lacey through
the heart killing him Instantly .The
officer died on the way to the hos
pital. One of the investigating officers,
Deputy Sheriff E. M. Axtell, said
Lacey arrived in Happy Camp
about a month ago from Willam
ette, Oregon.
Patrolman Chansler is survived
by his widow and two small
children in Mt. Shasta, Calif., and
mother, Mrs. Agnes Chansler of
San Francisco. He was a Marine
Corps veteran of World War II,
AEC Contract
Probe Delayed
WASHINGTON 11 A congres
sional airing of the controversial
Dixon - Yates contract proposal
under which a private utility firm
would produce electricity for the
Tennessee Valley area has been
postponed indefinitely.
Aides of the Senate-House Atom
ic Energy committee said Satur
day the hearings scheduled to be
gin next Tuesday have been can
celled at the request of the Atomic
Energy Commission.
Argument over the private pow
er proposal for a region served
widely by the government-operated
Tennessee Valley Authority took
another turn Friday night. Sen.
Gore (D-Tenn) asked the "assis
tance" of President Eisenhower In
getting a copy of the contract draft.
Gore, who doesn't like the Presi
dent's plan for a 107-million-dollar
private plant in the TVA area.
said the AEC refused to give him
a copy.
Telling of the delay In opening
hearings, committee aides said
AEC advised Rep. W. Sterling Cole
Us officials would not be prepared
to discuss the contract in detail
next week. Cole, committee chair
man, approved the request for ad
ditional time.
Weather
FORECAST Klamath Falls and
vicinity: Partly cloudy with scat
tered showers through Sunday,
High Sunday 70; low Saturday
ulght 45. - '
High yesterday -.. ...62
Low last night 46
Baseball
Scores
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit 001 001 000-2 T 0
New York 000 021 lOx-4 7 2
Aber and House; Byrd, Reynolds
(7) and Berra.
AFL agreements with the
firm.
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It was a major strl
move in the North?
where settlement r
neared a climax In 1
Only Friday the CIO W
ers arranged for a Mondb.
ing to explore further the t -er'
nors' proposal.
The Weyerhaeuser 6prlngfield
settlement, reported in a joint
statement of George Weyerhaeuser
and local 5-246, provides for a two-
year contract expiring April 1,
1956. The 2 cents puts Weyer
haeuser pay 7 'i cents above the
general Industry level
1200 EMPLOYED
The Springfield plant employs
1,200 who have been on strike. All
are to be back on the job Monday.
The night shift plywood crew will
report Sunday.
The CIO-IWA on Friday, after a
policy committee meeting,- asked
Oregon's Gov. Paul Patterson to
arrange the meeting at which it
would study, along with employers,
the precise meanings of the plan
worked out at Olympla by Patter
son, Washington's Gov. Arthur B
Langlie, lir operators and the AFL
Lumber and Sawmill Workers
Union.
Details of the proposal have not
been made public but it calls for
strikers to go back to work while
a fact-finding panel of seven stud
ies the long dispute.
Although not in effect yet, it ap
peared Saturday to hold the first
important hope lor an end to tne
strike.
PROPOSAL ACCEPTED
AFL officials accepted the pro
posal subject to ratification by the
union's membership and providing
that pine operators also accept it.
The CIO union on Thursday re
jected the fact-finding proposal
asking Instead that the dispute be
referred to arbitration which would
be binding on both sides
A. F. Hartung, president of the
CIO Woodworkers, said Friday
though, his union would now re
consider the proposal since he
understood it "differed, in some
sections, from the document we
discussed Thursday at.Olympia,
"A number of crucial questions
remain unresolved. Many are
matter . of interpretation. Others
are of a more substantial nature.
Therefore., we asked Gov. Patter
son to "-. call '. this meeting (the
Monday session) so that these ques
tions could be fully discussed, ' he
said. '
RETURN VOTE
Meantime at Lebanon, Ore., AFL
employes voted 463-71 to return to
work at the Cascade Lumber Co
under the fact-finding proposal.
The plant, which employs 932,
was to resume full operations be
ginning Monday.
Other - AFL locals also were
scheduling a vote on the proposal
The two unions went on strike
June 21 to back u demands for a
12 Vi-cent increase to their hourly
wage which has a minimum Base
of around $1.82 to $1.87 i.
There have been a number, of
settlements since the strike began
some by renewal of the old con
tract and some by varying wage
Increases. But no settlement pat
tern has been established.
LOU W. HALLOCK
Chief Ranger
Transfer Told
The transfer of Lou W. Hallock,
chief ranger at Crater Lake Na
tional Park, to a new assignment
at Death Valley National Monu
ment in California, has been an
nounced by the nark service. The
change will become effective Sep
tember 15.
Hallock. who has been with the
park service for 18 years, is a
graduate of the University of Con
necticut. He was with the forest
service in- New England before
becoming chief ranger at Carlsbad
Caverns In New Mexico. He was
later transferred to Lassen Na
tional Park, then to Yosemlte and
five years ago came to his post at
Crater Lake.
Hallock will replace Chief Rang
er Red ocston at Death Valley,
who is retiring.
Hallock, a photographer of note,
has accumulated some remarkable
pictures of the Crater Lake area,
many of them -getting into print
in various publications.
In remarking on his transfer,
Hallock expressed regret at leav
ing the Klamath country and
Klamath Falls where he and
Mrs. Hallock have made many
friends.
KLAMATH
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FEMININE GUESTS at the Friday luncheon meeting of the Oregon Association of Insurance
Agents Convention will be presented lasting corsages by the Klamath Falls chapter, Insurance
Wqmen's Association. Putting the finishing touches on the last few are, from left, Alice Hall,
president of the. local women's insurance group; Mrs. Lawrence Slater, treasurer and Chris
Tucker. Dena Backes is chairman of women's activities for the convention, which, will be held
September 2,' 3 and 4 with headquarters at the Willard Hotel.
Nationwide Meeting Of Potato Growers
Planned September 14, 15 In Chicago
A nationwide meeting of potato
growers has been scheduled for
September 14 and 15 in Chicago
according to a news release re
ceived from W. M. Case, execu
tive director of the National Po
tato Council, Washington D.C. The
meeting will be held in the Mor
rison Hotel.
A special invitation has been ex
tended to members of the control
boards of all operating potato
marketing agreements and grow
ers, handlers, and any other in
terested persons to aueuu.
Purpose of the meeting, accor-
lng to Case, is to bring potato men
from all producing areas together
to plan what should be done to
improve the marketing of the 1954
crop and the planting of the early
1955 crop,
"Potato growers are about the
only specialized group of produc
ers who have not yet set up an
organized program of consumer
education to promote their pro
duct. The declining per capita con
sumption of potatoes Is to no small
extent due to the energetic com
petition of other foods. The time
has come for potato men to get
together and work together for
their own welfare. The meeting in
imtcago is called to present an
opportunity to build such a pro
gram. Case stated.
A meeting of the executive com
mittee has been set for Septem
ber 13 and registration will begin
at 10 a.m. September 14.
Reds Capture
Spy Suspects
BERLIN 11 The official East
German news service, ADN, said
Saturday several hundred spy sus
pects have been arrested in a So
viet zone roundup which followed
the defection of -Dr. Otto
John. West Germany's security
chief.
Ernst Wollweber, Communist
head of East Germany's State Se
curity Service, was quoted as tell
ing a factory meeting the several
hundred were arrested Aug. 2 and
Aug. 3.
ADN said the persons seized
were "dangerous agents" of a
West German espionage organiza
tion financed by the United Stales
and directed by Rcinhard Gehlen,
wartime chief of Nazi military in
telligence on the Russian front.
Western informants say they be
lieve John betrayed the Identity
of many of Gehlen's agents to the
Communists.
GOP Picnic .
The meeting and picnic for
U.S. Congressional, state and
county GOP candidates and
party members will be held on
schedule, Sunday, August 29 In
Chlloquin instead of at Collier
Park due to weather conditions.
The picnic lunch and enter
tainment for children under
adult supervision will be in the
grade school gymnasium. Those
taking picnic luncheon should
arrive early. Serving will start
at 12 noon. Free coffee. Ice
cream and melons. Take table
service.
Speeches will start at 1 p.m.
in the new high school gymnasium.
FALLS, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28. 1954
Telephone 8111
Vice President Richard Nixon,
has been Invited to address the
potato men at a luncheon on the
15th. He has been asked to ex
plain the administration's farm
program plans and policy. Should
Nixon be unable to attend, some
high ranking official from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture will be
the principal speaker. Case
serted.
Other speakers slated to be
heard are Larry Manwaring, dep
uty administrator, production ad-
Justment administration of the
Pickets Leave
Hanford Job
RICHLAND, Wash. Ml Strik
ing AFL Carpenters withdrew
pickets Friday from a 40 million
dollar' chemical plant project at
the Hanford Atomic Works, end
ing a brief but crippling shutdown.
Picketing was halted suddenly
Just before the scheduled after
noon swing shift, but only a few
of the 4,000 Idled workmen of other
crafts showed up. Withdrawal of
the pickets had not been antici
pated.
Other workmen on tne mum
million dollar construction Job had
respected carpenters' picket lines
since they were formed Thursday
in the latest development of a two
week jurisdictional dispute over
cutting holes in pipes and conduits.
Saturday and Sunday arc not
normal work days on the project,
and whether full scale operations
will be resumed Monday appeared
to depend on progress of weekend
negotiations. Representatives of
the carpenters' union and the
Blaw-Knox ' Co., builders of the
plant, met briefly late Friday and
continued their talks Saturday.
No explanation has been given
for withdrawing picket lines,
which officials of the union's local
1849 had said were unsanctioned.
The current labor trouble at the
atomic plant broke out Aug. 13
when the 200 carpenters employed
by Blaw-Kn6x left their jobs in
a jurisdictional dispute which in
volved the cutting of holes in pipes
and conduits.
The carpenters claimed they
should do the work Instead of pipe
fitters and electricians.
Actual production of atomic ma
terials was not alfected by the
dispute.
Typhoon Rakes
Philippines
MANILA W A howling Pa-
cific typhoon raked the northern
tip of the Philippines with winds up
to 150 miles an hour Saturday,
blacking out communications and i
crippling at least one ship. I
me center oi tne ureal siorm
slammed Into the Batancs and
Babyuan Islands off the north end
of Luzon. Only small fishing vil
lages bore the full brunt of the
typhoon, but wide areas of the
Philippines and southern Formosa
were braced lor drenching rain
and high winds.
The storm was expected to churn
Into the China Sea later Saturday,
headed toward the Pratas Islands
about 140 miles southeast of Hong
Kong.
The 4,593-ton Japanese tanker
Ritsuel Maru radioed that it was
unable to navigate because of the
huge leas and high winds.
No. 2931
USDA, who will discuss the pro
gram for handling acreages di
verted from basio crops, and
Floyd F. Hedlund, deputy director
oi me iruit ana vegetable divi
sion, will talk on the possibilities
oi marketing agreements.
"Now that Maine has adopted a
marxeung agreement we are as
sured that the New England
states--.agreement will be reacti
vated. We would then have about
two-thirds of the late crop areas
operating under marketing agree
ments. They can all work together.
"States without marketing agree
ments should be encouraged to
adopt the same program restric-
ing culls, increasing minimum
sizes, etc. A special part of the
program will be devoted to a pro
motion program to Increase the
consumption of potatoes. Experts
.Torn the retail and wholesale
fields will be present to help de
velop plans. The council's own pro
motion program will be submitted
for consideration and approval.
"Representatives of the National
Meat Institute and. possibly, the
American Dairy Association will
be present to discuss cooperative
programs Involving combination
dishes of their products and po
tatoes, it Is hoped that a really
vorthwile Industrywide program
can be developed," Case con
cluded.
A complete program for the
meeting will be published later.
Hurricane
Warning Given
MIAMI, ' Fla. Ifl The coasts
of North and South Carolina were
under a hurricane alert Saturday
as a powerlul tropical storm spun
like a whirling dervish about 300
miles east of Jacksonville, Fla.
Its winds circled the calm cen
tral eve at a velocity of about 115
miles an hour, but the storm It
self stood nearly still.
Cecil Gentry, storm forecaster in
the Miami Weather Bureau, said
the tropical disturbance "is wal
lowing around, Its Internal forces
causing It to Inch to the east,
west, north and south. Its net
movement Is toward the northwest,
but so slowly that It canpot be
counted as a moving storm."
Because of the "net" northwest
ward movement, and because the
storm Is so close to land, the
Weather Bureau decided to place
the Carolina coasts under a pre
cautionary alert, he added.
"The hurricane, named Carol for
the third letter of the alphabet
is becalmed between two upper
air high pressure systems," said
Gentry.
Hurricane winds extended out-
ward 50 miles from the center and
gaits extended 100 miles.
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the storm should intensify some
and move slowly the next 12 hours,
probably in a direction between
northwest and north.
The storm, named Carol to Iden
tify It as the third of the season,
intensified rapidly yesterday but
waltzed around near latitude 30.3
north and longitude 76.7 west.
Alice, first storm of the season,
moved Into Mexico near the Texas
border on June 25, causing floods
in the area. Barbara, the second,
blew up in the Gulf of Mexico and
moved across the Louisiana coast
July 28.
Aircraft Disaster Occurs
During Attempted Landing
RAPID CITY, S.D. VP) A huge
B-36 bomber carried at least 24
crewmen to death Friday night
when it crashed and burned dur
ing landing attempt at Ellsworth
Air Force Base near here.
The public information office
said three other crewmen aboard
the plane were In "very critical"
condition at the base hospital. The
bodies ol the dead were badly
torn and burned. -
The Air Force later Saturday
released the list of casualties,
which Included two Washington
State men among the dead,
They were M. Sgt. Dean B. Mc
Kever, Camas. Wash., and Airman
2.C. Donald L. Wolf, Ardenvoir,
Wash.
These were the only Pacific
Northwest men listed.
Firemen reported the blazing
ship set several brush and grass
fires. These were brought under
control, allaying danger of a
prairie fire.
The B-36 Is the nation's largest
bomber with a wing span of 230
feet and a length of more than
162 feet. It took off from the base
Friday and had been on a train
ing flight at the time of the crash.
The wreckage was scattered
widely over a quarter mile area.
one officer reported. He aescrraea
the weather as "perfect" at the
time U'.e ship wus to have landed.
Olflcers said the plane appar
ently struck a small hill as it ap
proached the lengthy runway and
was burst apart and tired within
seconds. It came down about a
mile and a half from the base on
the ranch of Alfred Swallow located
about 13 miles west of this south
western South Dakota City of
29.000.
Swallow and his son, Harold,
said they were about to retire
when they felt a "concussion which
shook the ground." They saw
flames light up the sky immediate
ly and drove to the scene.
Fierce flames were sweeping the
wreckage by the time they reached
It. They said pieces of the ship
were scattered over a wide area.
Swallow also said there were
number of explosions, apparently
of fuel tanks and ammunition. The
plane had been on a routine train
ing flight out of the Ellsworth
Base, which is 13 miles west of
Rapid City. The crash occurred
about 11:15 o.m. est.
Names of all victims were Being
Ike Approves
Debt Increase
DENVER HI President Eisen
hower Saturday signed legislation
authorizing a temporary 6 billion
dollar Increase in the present 275
billion dollar national debt ceiling,
and declared the hike "may prove
Inadequate."
In approving the increase legis
lation at the summer White House,
the President noted In a state
ment that It permits a temporary
Increase of up to 6 billion dollars
In the national debt outstanding be
fore the close of the fiscal year
which started July 1.
The administration had asked
congress for a 10 billion dollar In
crease,
Referring to the smaller hike
authorized, Elsenhower said:
"Although this provision may
prove inadequate, It does allow
some indispensable latitude In con
ducting the operations of the fed
eral government during the cur
rent year and is an Improvement
over the existing situation.
"The administration will make
every possible effort to carry on
the activities of the government In
accordance with this limit."
The President said his admlnls
lion's record "fully demon
going economy and efficiency."
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SALLY GEIST, 337 Haskins, was the subject for the special
cameraman this morning. She is a bookkeeper at Medo-Land
Creamery Co., I SOD Esplanade,
withheld pending
next of kin.
notification ef
NEW YORK Wl Friday night's
B-36 crash, with at least 24 dead,
is the worst in the big bomber's
relatively short history.
On two previous occasions the
number of fatalities was 23. They
occurred on May 6, 1951, at Al
buquerque, N.M., and on March
18, 1953, in Newfoundland.
Ike Signs
Farm Bill
At Denver
DENVER W President Elsen.
hower Saturday signed farm legis
lation representing a major ad
ministration victory and declared
It will "bring substantial lasting
benefits to our farmers, our con
sumers and our entire economy."
The President signed 'the farm
measure in a small conference
room at the Lowry Air Force
Base admlnstration building, his
vacation headquarters. .
in a prepared statement the
President declared:
"I am very happy indeed to ap
prove this bill which embodies my
major recommendations to the
Congress In January. This new
law the central core of a vigor
ous, progressive agricultural pro
gramwill bring substantial, last- .
Ing benefits to our farmers, our
consumers and our entire eco
nomy." FLEXIBLE PRICES
The president noted that the
"most publicized feature" of the
new law Is "the flexible price sup
port system which it places into
effect" after this crop year, in
place of the present rigid support
program.
When Elsenhower had put his
signature to the measure, he
turned to the newsreel and tele
vision microphones and said in
lormany:
It Is a great satisfaction to me
to sign this agricultural bill. It
marks the culmination ot a year
and a half ot solid work to de
velop a system of governmental
cooperation with the farmer of
the United States so that the ag
ricultural economy may be stab,
illzed, may be kept healthy to the
benefit of the farmer himself, eur
entire economy Including the con
sumers. "All of us 160 million people .
can be thankful that this bill has
been enacted into law."
As the President signed the bill
ink spurted from the pen, got all
over Elsenhower's fingers, and
splotched the bill Itself.
CROP PRODUCTION '
The President hailed congres
sional enactment of the measure
as a move to assure provision of
more food, make crop production
more efficient and to stabilize
farm income.
Elsenhower said that under the
new law "our farmers are as
sured of greater freedom Instead
of the rapidly Increasing regimen
tation and federal domination they
were sure to suffer under a con
tinuation ot the present system of
rigid price supports." ,
The President said it was his
hope "that in time nearly all pro
duction adjustments can be ac
complished through flexible sup
port instead of direct government
controls."
CONFIRMED
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil Wl
The fifth Western Hemisphere In
surance Conference here reaf
firmed Its stand that states should
not compete with private com
panies in the Insurance business.
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