European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1988, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday november 20,1988 insurers facing rate cuts assailed for policy limits los Angeles a lawmakers and insurers clashed Friday Over a voter approved measure that drastically cuts insurance rates in California. At a hearing legislators began trying to put Down Aso called Industry revolt while insurance companies defended their decisions to Cut Back on policies they nov. 8. Officials said the insurance companies Are not re Newing Auto policies refusing new car insurance customers or referring them 10 More expensive subsidiaries. Insurance company representatives said it would be unfair and illegal to in face them to Ops ale at multimillion Dollar losses they said they will incur under the initiative s rate cuts of at least 20 percent we cannot continue to pay claims deliver service to our customers and provide a return to our share holders under the system established by this ballot initiative said Ronald Foley of the travellers corp., which is pulling Auto Home and some commercial insurance from the Market. State Senate Leader David Robert announced legis lation to pay for the state insurance commissioner s imposition of proposition 103 and to create an office in the Justice department to handle consumer complaints about insurers. Sen. Alan robbing said he planned to introduce legislation dec. 5 to Levy multimillion Dollar lines against insurers who withdraw from the Market to avoid the proposition. Bobbins said the legislation would require every company to cover retroactively All people who held policies on election Day and would Fine insurers be tween 25 percent and 50 percent of the value of Ever policy not renewed alter proposition 103 was passed. Boatwright suggested legislation that would forbid companies from writing insurance unless they were complying with the measure. Insurance companies filed suit against rate cutting proposition 103 upon its passage saying it was unconstitutional primarily because it would Force them to operate at a loss. The stale supreme court temporarily blocked the initiative White it considers the Challenge. Attorney general John Van de Kamp has asked the court to lift or at least narrow the ruling so that it blocks Only the Rale rollbacks and allows the balance of the measure that includes stiff government regulation of the Industry to take effect. Gossip maven Graham Dies last member of unholy Trio from press dispatches Palm Beach Fla. Gossip columnist Sheila Graham who reported the loves and lives of Holly Wood s most glittering stars has died of heart failure at 84. Graham who lived in this oceanfront resort died thursday at Good Sama Ritan Hospital in West Palm Beach. She had undergone two hip opera Lions and had suffered two heart attacks in re cent years said a Friend Cclia Lipton Farris Fri Day. She s the last of the great Era that wrote about Hollywood stars said Farris. -. Raised in an Orpha nage Graham found Fame and Fortune. She Graham wrote 11 books and was romantically involved with flamboyant jazz age novelist f. Scott Fitgerald. With fellow columnists Louclla Parsons and Hudda Hopper she formed what some called the unholy Trio and she captured Hollywood s Juiciest gossip in a to holds barred style. Joan Crawford had no right to be a she once wrote in the syndicated column she filed for 40 years. She was a perfectionist and expected it of he children she was always cleaning Graham reported on the time Bonzo the Chimp nearly strangled Ronald Reagan with his own tie and the time Marilyn Monroe Sang Happy birthday to John f. Kennedy in Madison Square Garden her life was As controversial As the people she wrote about. Born Lily Shell in London s East end on sept. 15, 1904, Graham at age 18 married a Salesman 25 years her senior before trying careers As a chorus girl and As an actress. In 1933. She emigrated to new York. After reporting for new York papers for two years she left for Holly Wood where she was courted by Howard Hughes and John Wayne and later met Fitzgerald their affair ended after three years when Fitzgerald died of a heart attack in 1940, collapsing at her feet. Farris said she still frequently spoke of him once la menting "1 won t be remembered for my writing. I la be remembered As Scott s Graham s autobiography beloved infidel was made into a movie starring Deborah Kerr and Gregory -.peck. Thai Book concentrated on the pygmalion and gala Lea aspect of the relationship Between the novelist Anugraham in which he created a College of one for her drawing up lists of books she read to Complete the education of a woman As her Book was sub titled. -. Beloved infidel which Graham wrote in collaboration Wilh Gerald Frank became an International Best seller received critical approval for its warmth and authenticity and was hailed by Edmund Wilson in the As the very Best portrait of Fitzge Rald Hal has yet been put into the years with Fitzgerald were for Graham both idyllic and served As the Model for Kathleen the heroine in the last tycoon the Fitzgerald novel that was unfinished at his death. Graham s survivors include a daughter. Wendy Fairey a son Robert Westbrook and three grandchild. Dren. Stateside Houston s mayor plans to run for 5th term in 89 Houston a mayor Kathy Whitmire erring her fourth term As Leader of the nation s fourth largest City lays she is planning to run Torre election in 1989. Whitmire reportedly mentioned her intention at the organizational meeting of the Houston breakfast leadership forum. By the Way if anyone is wondering. I do intend to run for re election Cindy Clifford one of the organizers quoted the mayor As say ing. Asked to confirm the report Whitmire said tin not starting a Campaign tonight or making an announcement of Campaign plans today. It1 no secret and it has t been thai i have no plans to quit at the end of this term and have been planning to seek another term if the voters allow me to do that former mayor Fred Hofheinz has said he is considering running for mayor next year. Turkeys take Brief Holiday on Road to slaughterhouse Austin Texas a hundreds of turkeys temporarily escaped a tractor trailer carrying them o Slaughter and lied up traffic for More thai three hours strutting along on a Highway before texans rounded them up. The gobblers pre thanksgiving adventure began when the truck they were in rolled Over after a collision. Some of the 2,500 while medium sized tur keys were killed but others escaped front their cages and look to the open Road interstate 35. No people were injured in the collision be tween the truck and a car said Edwin Anderson an emergency medical technician. Elch Baumann of the humane society of aus tin said the turkeys would be Kepi in shelters for Plantation foods company of Waco and would be Given away if the company no longer wanted hem. More drought predicted in parts of three states Fargo . A drought conditions will continue to plague pans of North Dakota Minnesota and South Dakota next year but will not affect the Clire three slate Reg Jon a univer sity of North Dakota researcher said. William a Dando a professor of geography and a climate researcher said Western North Dakota Southern Minnesota and portions of South Dakota will continue to gel a cow a crag precipitation. Those areas arc going through some sever kind of weather variation he said. Water is so precious a commodity and it will be More precious tomorrow Darido said urging people to remember the problems caused by Lack of water and plan for it. He said when a drought is Over people forget about water Arlen Leholm an agricultural economist at North Dakota slate University said last week he docs not expect the drought to continue in North Dakota in 1989. He noted that the stale never experienced Back to Back droughts even during the 1930s.-.- i -. A a a a. " by the associated press in new York Texas and Arkansas Small plane plane crashes killed 12 peo ple Friday including seven who died when a twin engine plane crashed during a thunderstorm in Batesville Ark. In addition lightning struck a Twa jetliner 50 Miles from the Airport in lil Lerock Ark. \ Williams a dispatcher for the Independence county sheriffs depart ment in Arkansas said the Beech Craft King air Turboprop crashed just after 6 pint., about 12 Miles West of the Airport they had made one approach and missed the Batesville Airport arid they were attempting a second time when the plane crashed Williams said. The Remote crash site is about 90 Miles Northeast of Little Rock. The weather was about As had As you can gel Williams said. The officers Al the scene said it was raining and so foggy. You could t see the the flight originated at Orange Texas. Outside Houston said Wayne Beckmann duly officer at the Federal aviation administration s Southwest regional office in fort Worth. 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