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Firm Refunds Called Dual Violation By PAUL PRESBREY Minneapolis Star Funds of the defunct North Central Fire Casualty Insurance Co. are being used to make premium refunds in violation of court orders issued in both West Virginia and Minnesota, officials of both said today. Checks, all for less than $100, have been reaching holders of cancelled policies during the past week from the Delta Insurance Nassau, Bahamas. Since May 18 in West Virginia and June 1 in Minnesota, North Central Fire Casualty has been barred by injunction from transact in business. Declared Insolvent Wednesday, the insurance company was declared insolvent by a West Virginia court and ordered to turn over all its books, records GOP Offers 9 Changes on Insurance A nine-point program to upgrade the State Insurance Department was proposed today by the Republican Task Force on Insurance.

The committee said that if the program is adopted, it will "give Minnesota the type of strong state regulation and administration that will make federal action unnecessary." Among other things the report recommends appointment of a commissioner of insurance "of professional competence with a knowledgeable background in insurance." It also asks that the department be provided a fully qualified staff, be admin- given funds "necessary to ister its responsibilities the public," and that state law amended to allow use of independent certified audits. Cost of upgrading the department could be paid by "increasing licensing a other fees paid by agents and companies," said J. Peter Devine, St. Paul insurance man and committee chairman. Other recommendations: Charges for issuing licenses to agents and companies and fees paid by componies be equitable.

Taxes and fees paid by companies in the business of insurance should not be discriminatory among companies. Capital and surplus of all companies be related currently to underwriting. risks and reserves of the companies. and funds to the insurance commissioner of that state. Staff Writer Friday afternoon, Ramsey District Judge Harold Schultz appointed Joseph Haveson, acting Minnesota insurance commissioner, to take control of the firm's assets in this state.

He will work with the West Virginia commissioner in the liquidation of the company. Meanwhile, officials of both states warned receivers of the premium refund checks not to sign them. A "release" printed on the back over the space for the endorsement amounts to, the lawyers say, a waiver by the policy holder to any claims against the insurance company. The checks are mailed from Nassau and are drawn on Barclays Bank of that city. However, a return address is given as 2000 Commerce Towers, Kansas City, and lists a Robert Cook at that address as attorney in fact for Delta in the United States.

Has an Office Julian Riley, president of the defunct firm, has an office at the same address. During the isolvency hearing in Huntington earlier this week, Riley admitted that the "beneficial" owner of Delta was Donald Roberts, the Kansas City promo tor, who in the past has acted as spokesman for North Central Fire and Casualty. Both West Virginia and Minnesota officials hinted they are ready to take some action against Delta to reclaim the $750,000 which officials of North Central say they paid the Nassau company for reinsurance. Other moves, these against the officials of North Central including possible criminal charges, also are being studied authorities said. Man Robs Bar, Comes Back to Claim Drink A bandit robbed Len Niesen's Bar, 691 N.

Dale St. Paul, Friday afternoon and escaped with an undetermined amount of cash. Police said that a man in his 30s entered the bar and ordered a drink. After getting the drink, he called the bartender to the cash register, produced a long-barreled revolver and told the bartender to "give me the The bartender, Peter A. Weisman, 94 Rose Av.

told him to "help yourself." The bandit jumped over bar, took the cash from the register and started to leave. He got halfway to the door when he returned, picked up his glass and left with it. He walked to a nearby car and drove off. Court Sale of City Bar Scheduled Wednesday A court sale of the Page Bar, 417 S. 6th which has been placed in receivership, was scheduled for 8:30 a.m.

Wednesday before Hennepin District Judge Edward J. Parker. Stanley Larson, Minneapolis real estate man and appraiser, has been named receiver of the corporation which owns the bar. He is managing and operating the business until it is sold. An offer to purchase the business for $58,500 has been submitted to the receiver by David Y.

Morris, former partial owner of the Chalet in Robbinsdale. Other bids may be submitted to the court on the day of the sale, Larson said. Request for the receivership was instituted by Kendall Light, guarantor of the mortgage, after the mortgage held by the Northwestern National Bank was in default. There are $39,000 in debts against the bar. Front Page, the company which operates the bar, is owned by Daniel LaBarre and Mrs.

Marcheta Levine, administrator of the 'estate of Victor Levine. Levine and LaBarre each owned 50 per cent of the stock in the business. VFW URGES 'U' TO EXTEND CONTROL OF 'SUBVERSIVES' MANKATO, oriented clubs" at the uniThe Minnesota Veterans of versity. the Foreign University of Minnesota Adjutant Quartermaster Wars Friday urged its Lowell J. Eastlund said deleto "strengthen and extend approved the resolucontrols over any tion almost unanimously.

It subversive gates activities and organizations" superseded one passed last on campus. year which asked the House However, delegates to the Committee on Un-American state VFW convention called Activities to investigate aloff a 1965 request an legedly subversive campus investigation of activities. THE MINNEAPOLIS STAR 0 US ARMY U.S. ARMY OFF TO CAMP- 4 Richard Kuzel (left), 3201 Dia- prepared to go to summer camp. The guardsmen will mond and Sgt.

Edward Peterson, 8151 Patsy Lane, spend the next two weeks on active duty at Camp Ripley, Golden Valley, checked convoy instructions at the Minne- near Little Falls, Minn. apolis Armory today as the National Guard's 47th Division Humphrey to Speak on Swedish Day Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey, will be the principal speaker June 26 at Svenskarnas Dag (Swedish Day) in Minnehaha Park. The annual festival will (start at 10:30 service. a.m.

Humphrey with a religious is expected to speak at 3:30 p.m., Iner J. Johnson, Svenskarnas Dag chairman, announced. Musical groups at the celebration will include the Young Swedish Singers, directed by Alfons Sundkvist; the Salvation Army Band under Ray Schweizer; the American Swedish Institute Male Chorus and St. Paul Swedish Male Chorus; soloist Betty Jane Brandell and folk dance groups. Guests will include Gov.

Karl F. Sen. Walter F. Mondale and Mayor Arthur Naftalin. Gunilla Bulow, "Homecoming Year" Queen from Sweden will also be on hand when the Midsummer Queen for Svenskarnas Dag is crowned late in the afternoon.

Escorts for the queen candidates will be members of the local Marine Air Reserve Training Command. Winners Picked in Rodeo Events GRANITE FALLS, in the ht first preliminary place contests of the Minnesota High School Rodeo here were announced today. The events and winners are: steer wrestling, William Johnson, Balaton; tie-down calf roping, Wayne Fortun, Litchfield; bareback bronc. riding, Greg Otto, Marshall; bull riding, Jim Bailey, Redwood Falls; cutting, Jack Swedlund, Excelsior. In the girls division: barrel racing, Gail Mollerud, Fergus Falls; pole bending Ginger Kuehl, Trimont; cutting, Sandra Bjorland, Tracy.

Bonnie Thoen of Minnetonka placed second in the cutting event. Finals of the rodeo, which began Friday, will be held Sunday. Winners in each field will compete in the national contest Aug. 16-21 in Wetumka, Okla. Engineer: Technology Able to Clear Waste Technology has been sponsible for "the pollution system" and is capable of devising means of "cleaning up the mess" a Minnesota Senate group was told Friday.

Steve J. Gadler St. Paul consulting engineer spoke for the Minnesota Society of Professional Engineers before a joint meeting of the subcommittee on state departments of the Senate Civil Administration Committee and the subcommittee on water resources on the Senate Public Domain Committee. He said the society has I established a committee on waste management and control of pollution including more than a score of scientists and engineers representing industry, government, the academic world and private practice. The committee will sugstandards and "assist the state and national lawmakers with scientific and technological Gadler chairman of the committee told the senators "new public policies will be needed since pollution does not follow city county or state lines." In addition to air and water pollution he said the committee will work on curing pollution of the soil with viruses "that can live a hundred years" and "electro magnetic pollution" "which interferes with the operation of electronic equipI ment.

NEWSPAPER IN OSLO LAUDS ST. OLAF BAND OSLO, Norway -4P- The St. Olaf College concert band of Northfield, received a favorable review today in Norway's largest newspaper for its concert at Oslo University Friday night. Dag Winding Sorenson, critic of Aftenposten, the country's largest paper, said the band played with a "catching freshness and a discipline that was worthy of being taken for a model." "It does the band leader, Miles A. Johnson, great honor to present a band of such high standard," he added.

The band consists of 77 members about half of them women of mainly Scandinavian descent. It previously gave concerts DFLers Caught in Hotel Elevator United Press International About a dozen persons, including delegates to the Minnesota DLF convention, were stuck on an elevator in the Leamington' Hotel for nearly two hours Friday night. Firemen finally pried open the door and released the oCcupants. No one was injured. The elevator was jammed between the third and fourth floors in the hotel, which serves as convention headquarters.

Eugene Villaume Rites Arranged for Monday Funeral services for gene T. Villaume, 33, president of Jenny Lee, St. Paul, whose body was recovered Frday from Mille Lacs, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Luke's Catholic Church, St.

Paul, with burial in Resurrection Ceme- Mr. Villaume tery. Mr. Villaume Villaume, 1672 Lilac Mendota Heights, had missing since June 4 he set out alone in his and ran into a storm. boat apparently capsized.

body was found by a party. The death was an accidental drowning. June 18, 1966 5 A Jim Klobuchar AT THIS WRITING I don't have the faintest idea, how the state Democratic convention is going to come out. It might end in a tie. It might be postponed and replayed as part of a double-header with the Republican convention next week.

Politics tweaks my interest, however, and in the hope of obtaining some advance clue to the outcome of the DFL session, I tracked down a knowledgeable DFL type Friday for the latest soundings. "Your party," I observed, "seems to be in a mess as the convention starts." "How can you say that?" he challenged. "What we have here is a routine alley fight, the kind which Democrats thrive on. It's true that some of us are trying to dump an incumbent DFL governor, which is practically unheard of. "It's also true that the governor thinks so little of the lieutenant governor that he tried to abolish his job.

Also that some of Gov. Rolvaag's supporters contend that Lt. Gov. Keith is the kind of politician you wouldn't want to be caught in an alley with, and that he is the kind who assassinates his friends." $575,000 Awarded in Blast Suit A Hennepin County District Court jury awarded $575,000 to a Bloomington family today for injuries and damage from a gas explosion in their home Nov. 20, 1963.

The jury, deliberated for about nine hours, adjourning at 12:45 a.m., before making the award to Mr. and Mrs. Erling Larsen, 8601 3rd Av. and their son, Stephen, 4. The Larsens had sought more than $1 million in damages.

Mrs. Larsen and Stephen suffered severe face and body burns in the fire that followed the explosion. Mrs. Larsen received $300,000 and her son received $150,000. Larsen was awarded $125,000 for medical expenses and damage to the Defendants in the trial, which lasted five weeks, were the Minneapolis Gas Barbarossa and Sons, contractors, Osseo, and the Edina Excavating Edina.

All the defendants were held liable by the jury. Charles Hvass, the Larsen's attorney, argued that the explosion had been caused by a ruptured gas main that was struck when a sewer line was being laid. There were more than 250 exhibits and 44 witnesses in the trial. Man, 40, Stabbed in City Apartment A 40-year-old man was in satisfactory condition today in General Hospital despite a stab wound suffered Friday night in a south Minneapolis apartment. Police were called at 10:45 p.m.

to first-floor apartment at 3019 Pillsbury where the victim, Russell Overby, address unknown, was founded bleeding on the dining room floor from a wound in the abdomen. The apartment is occupied by Mrs. Maxine Edstrom. Police were investigating the case today. Cmdr.

F. D. Wulf of the Navy in recruits at the old Washington Friday. and his sister, Carol Ann, 18, the oath together and are Wayne enlisted for four years. Waves, will serve three years.

I OBSERVED that this sounded like pretty provocative language. "Nonsense," the DFLer said. "You ought to hear. what they say about each other in private. But you know what's going to happen when all this feuding is over, don't you?" "You are going to close ranks," I volunteered.

"Naturally. What else do politicians close?" "I'm sure. you have some worthy candidates, such as Mr. Rolvaag, Mr. Keith, Mr.

Short and Mr. Naftalin," I said, "but I can't escape the suspicion that you may be passing up your strongest candidate for governor." "You don't mean-" "Yes. Mrs. Butler, and I'll tell you why. How many other candidates do you have who have beaten Mayor, Vavoulis, Commissioner Rosen and knocked out the miniature train at Como Park, all on the same day?" "I don't think Mrs.

Butler is controversial enough. to stand a chance in this convention," the DFLer said. "When it comes to controversy, we have professionals who don't need a snowplow to start a fight. "Also, we have Mr. Humphrey's opinion to consider." I ASKED HOW this figured in the argument.

"Well, Mr. Humphrey has strict standards for measuring a candidate's, qualifications, and one of these is whether the candidate can dance the frug as well as some of the people at the White House parties. Mrs. Butler has performed some outstanding services to the party, but we have no evidence that she can meet the frug But I pressed him on what I consider the crucial issue before the convention, and that is how well the DFL nominee would fare against his Republican rival. "As you know," he said, "the Republicans have positive genius for picking the wrong candidate." I acknowledged that this was probably true.

"Well, if you think we in the DFL have got this week, consider the plight of the Republicans next week. Now, politics aside, I regard men like Mr. Andersen, Mr. Pillsbury, Mr. Levander and Mr.

Randall as estimable gentlemen. "But you see the Republicans' problem. For all of his attainments, I think Mr. Pillsbury would impress a lot of voters as just another on the flour bag." I INQUIRED about the other Republican contenders. "Mr.

Levander, although he is much admired by many professionals in his party, is doing even worse in the polls than Harold E. Stassen. "Mr. Randall, as I recall, has beaten no one since T. Eugene Thompson.

"And Mr. Andersen, well, they seem to be having a- hard time getting him away from his piano." So where does that leave the Republicans, I asked? "It leaves them in a mess," he said, "and I tell you? it is sad to see a political party racked by so much dissension." in Frankfurt, Germany, and Copenhagen, Denmark. From here the band will go to the northern Norwegian cities of Bodoe and Harstad to perform. St. Paul Youth, 16, Drowns in Lake A 16-year-old St.

Paul youth, Charles E. Quarn, drowned at about 3 p.m. Friday in Lake Johanna in Arden Hills. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Kenneth Quarn, 1724 Van Buren Av. The youth disappeared while swimming with five companions and was found a few minutes later in three feet of water about 50 feet from shore. Lifeguards and sheriff's deputies were unable to revive him. HOME ROBBED OF $83 While Dorothy K. Whiting worked in the back yard of the family home at 3816 3rd Av.

S. Friday, burglars walked into the house through the unlocked front door and stole $83, Minneapolis police said. IN THE NAVY NOW-Lt. recriting swore in Building, 2nd and Wayne Hempelman, 19, and Chippewa Falls, took now serving in the Navy. Carol Ann, who joined the For Your Sunday Enjoyment IN TOMORROW'S MINNEAPOLIS TRIBUNE Premack Wright They'll report on DFL Convention POLITICAL CONVENTION-Political reporters Frank Wright and Frank Premack are at the Democratic-Farmer-Labor state convention, now being held at the Leamington Hotel--and you'll be able to get their significant convention news reports tomorrow in the news section.

And next week, the same team will cover the Republican convention to be held at Minneapolis Convention Hall. MORE this week it was announced that International Nickel Co. will develop a copper-nickel mining operation near Ely, Minn. Now it appears that two other companies are interested in such mining operations. Business writer Timothy Blodgett will provide a report-Sunday on the Business pages in Section C.

FOOD PRICES -Both the family breadwinner and the family food buyer should love this one: Agriculture reporter Dick Youngblood will explain how food prices, which are at an all-time high, are de-plus some interesting facts about the effect of changing consumer demands. You'll find his report on the News in Perspective Page. Minneapolis To order the Sunday Tribune, ice route salesman, call your see dealer your write carrier or In farm Minne- serv- Tribune) or us. SUNDAY apolis or St.Paul, call 372-4343. Mr.

Villaume joined Jenny Lee in 1958 and became its president in 1960. He also was a founding director of Summit National Bank of St. Paul and a director of the Pan-O-Gold Baking Minneapolis. Surviving are his widow, Mary; two sons, Edward, 3, and Louis, 2, a daughter, Catherine, 6 months; his mother, Mrs. Willard Foley, South St.

Paul; two sisters, Sister Mary Denise and Janet, both of St. Paul, and a brother, Walter St. Paul. A rosary will be said at 8 4 p.m. Sunday at O'Halloran and Murphy Mortuary, 575 Snelling Av.

St. Paul. Visitation will begin at 3 p.m. Memorials to the Visitation a Convent building fund or of the donor's choice are preI ferred. Mr.

Lane, been when boat The His fishing ruled.