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Show I King Reports Victory For Small Business In what Rep. David S. King (D-Utah) termed an "Important victory for small business," the Department of Defense last week restored the rotation principle to its policy on selecting truck lines to move servicemen and other defense personnel. Congressman King said the department under heavy fire of Congressional forces and from members of the trucking industry, indus-try, had suspended the policy which had abandoned the practice prac-tice of rotating the selections among the eligible carriers in the area of each defense installation. instal-lation. "This decision will leave the old policy and the rotation practice prac-tice in effect until July 1," Mr. King reported. "Meantime, department de-partment officials have given us firm assurances that they will work closely with representatives representa-tives of the trucking industry in framing a new policy, by which the government can continue to distribute the busines fairly and at the same time achieve its desired de-sired objective of a uniformly high standard of service." Mr. King participated in a public discussion of the controversial contro-versial new policy Monday at the Pentagon and lodged a formal for-mal protest to it. Meantime, he had secured assurances from Rep. Abraham J. Multer of New York, a House Small Business Subcommittee chairman, that Congressional hearings would be held on the policy unless the department suspended it. |