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TheGAMECOCK VoL. LXV NO. 55 The University of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C. MONDAY, APRIL 21, 1975 Insura BY BILL PRATT Of The Gamecock staff Public hearings were se Thursday by the South Carolini Insurance Department to stud3 campus life insurance sales practices. The hearings are scheduled t< begin 10:30 a.m. May 21 at the offices of the Insurance depart ment. According to sources close t( the situation, the date for the hearings was set after ThE Gamecock uncovered deceptivE and illegal sales techniques employed by Fidelity Union LifE Insurance Co. of Dallas. . In a department bulletin, thE department asks "All persons desiring to be heard on tht subject of the Proposec Regulation should inform th( Department of such desire, anc those unable to appear at the hearing but desiring to submit a statement or letter for the record are at liberty to do so." The hearings purpose is tc determine if the proposed regulations will be suitable to the Club set BY MICKEY TRIN Of The Gamecocl The USC International Cit fund raising drive for Viel according to chairperson Cc Operating under the "Ci Children Die?" slogan, v collecting donations from now month. Tables will be set up ir lobby Monday and Tuesday f money will be for the bent Children. Friends of Children is e political organization coml volunteers dedicated to rr welfare programs in Viet organization has no administr funds donated will be sent orphanages. "80 per cent of the babies namese orphanages die befe years old," McCutcheon sai IEAI, AllD-- Free legal aId Ii available to USC students. PagE 3. nce heai public. Any changes will be made after the hearings are held. The regulations will then become law. The proposed regulation would prohibit the use of a promissory note as a means of financing an insurance policy. "No insurer and no agent, broker, or other person representing any insurer shalr accept, transmit, or otherwise assist in the preparation or transmission of any promissory note," the regulation says. Presently, promissory notes in some cases are signed without the prospective buyer knowing it is an insurance contract. Other highlights of the regulation: --require the applicant to pay ten per cent or $25, whichever is greater, of the first year's payment. --restrict the insurance agent from "extending credit for, or in any other manner whatsoever defer or forgive such payment" of the first year's premium. --require applicants to sign and the agents to turn into the In 1ks aid for IARCIII malnutrition, k staff dehydration an they are prer ib is sponsoring a cubators." namese children, All those don nnie McCutcheon. which reads "I i in You Let The answer to the s lunteers will be die?" All cont: until the end of the Based on the the Russell House Viet Nam gove Dr collections. All children, accou -fit of Friends of cent of the tot million children non-profit, non- figure has incr( osed entirely of monthjs and ; aintaining child readily determ Nam. Since the cent of these orl ative expenses, all "You can't r lirectly to Saigon kids," said Lyn drive. brohght to Viet- The combinei re they are three government an< d. "They die of C -On the inside PIGSKIN- The spring football game, CockfIght '75, Is slated for Saturday night. Page 9. ring set surance Commissioner's office a disclosure statement. This statement would have "a brief description of every sup plemental benefit, if any, con tained in the policy, the amount of premium for each such sup Continued on Page 3 Editors want your opinion USC students, faculty and staff are encouraged to attend and participate in a press counil at 2 p.m. today in the Russell House Theatre. The press council will concern The Gamecock's role in covering campus events. The newspaper's editors will be on hand to answer questions and to receive feedback from the audience on how it can better serve the Carolina community. orphans measles, ear infections, l pneumonia. Some die because nature and there are no in ating will receive a stick-on tag .an't, I care." The message is in logan "Can you let the children ributions are tax deductable. latest census conducted by the rnment, there are eight million nting for approximately 46 per al population. Of these eight , ten per cent are orphans. That -ased drastically in the past few in accurage count cannot be ined. Approximately five per )hans have an American parent. eally turn your back on these i Braun, who is helping with the I support from the Viet Nam I the United States government Dntinued on Page 5 4/ APATIhV-- (Changing times have affected student volunteer organizations, especially those involved in activites that benefit others. Page i t. This aspiring young artist added to the zoo exhibit at Fiesta '75 Saturday on Main Street. Food Day starves as local drive fails BY DEBBIE HOWARD junction with Oxfam-America, a Of The Gamecock staff non-profit organization working to help Third World countries. Carolina students and Representatives from 221 Columbia citizens contributed Pickens Street Cooperative only $28 last Thursday to a manned a booth on the first floor nationwide effort to collect of Russell House and members of money for famine-plagued Ananda Marga Yoga Society had countries. a booth at Dutch Square and The contributions will be passed 'out pamphlets at the distributed to famine countries in Fiesta Day exhibits in downtown the form of seeds and farming Columbia. equipment. The various pamphlets and In Columbia, the 221 Pickens handouts strove to re-educate Street Cooperative and the Americans about the world Ananda Marga Yoga Society nouzest For examin- cnoit rinizaon tke s i sesionbeoreupcmig fnalexms,ao l hrd torld me ontries A facultyemanualteguiationrstates Inanycouse r lbortor w ickeens torhreetiooesratv week noqui,tst r eamiatin saned ie boothin the fist twoo ('as ssson pio t te eglaeamnaio Rus ell oadmmbrso givn urig he as clss acorin toth fauty rutcl Suae.n in y curs oraboatoyTmetn moriou than phreets an week,iz, test o xnto can be given during the lastthe classseio.