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• W.V V-. - v;- -.-.-.-..V ... I .t 4t '«* * - •» *"* * VV X v'' v/- *' ' ' * vlvV be Battalion Cloudy, rainy. tvarm Vol. 66 No. 56 College Station, Texas Thursday, December 10, 1970 Thursday — Cloudy to partly cloudy afternoon, rainshowers. Winds southerly 10-20 mph. High 76°, low 66°. Friday — Cloudy and rain. Winds southerly 15-20 mph be coming northerly 15-20 mph. High 76°, low 64°. 845-2226 speaker knocks insurance industry B y CHARLES MASTERSON Battalion Staff Writer "What we have is an insurance industry that has gotten too ar rogant,” State Senator Oscar Slauzy from Dallas said Wednes- lay at noon in a Political Forum presentation. As chairman of the Interim Committee on Auto Insurance, Slauzy spoke out against auto asurance companies fleecing the Texas motoring public, especially he unmarried males under 25, nth exorbitant rates set from iaguised profit figures and clev- r lobbying. “The field of auto insurance is ke industry least understood by ke common person and this is leliberate,” Mauzy said. 'The people of Texas aren’t ping to stand for this kind of reatment from an industry that tts like a monopoly yet has no icnopolistic restraints levied gainst it,” he said, “If we don’t tt, the federal government will ike over the auto insurance in- totry.” The senator estimated that ap- wximately 30 per cent of all rivers and cars on the Texas ighways were uninsured due to ke high premiums forced upon the public by the insurance com panies. “Even after showing a profit from 1967-69 of over $2 billion, these companies are asking for a raise from 5 per cent to 12 per cent on the rate of return on pre miums. “To me, this is just ludicrous,” the Dallas lawyer said. Mauzy said the State Board of Insurance has finally agreed to consider investment income on the rate figuring formula for auto insurance policies. Mauzy also attacked insurance compa nies for financing their lobbies, which he said is working against the people’s best interests, with legal fees paid by premiums from the policy holders. “Our insurance rates should be put on the open market for com petition between companies. The 10 to 20 per cent minimum lia bility coverage would be handled by the state,” Mauzy said. This would eliminate the least efficient companies who have helped push the rates up to where they are now, he added. “We should also switch to the comparative negligence law in Texas,” Mauzy suggested. Under this law, the two parties id* vi&,'•• •*> *.& >i subtract their percentages of guilt in an accident, determined by a jury, and the lesser of the two receives the difference in compensation, he said. The Texas University graduate said the “no fault” insurance con cept does not really reduce insur ance rates and may even increase them in some states. Under this concept, each party recovers damages from his own insurance company. The insurance company will up your rates even though you were not at fault but cannot prove the guilt of the other party, he said. The accident still shows up on your record, and you are stuck, he added. “This concept rewards the guil ty and penalizes the innocent,” Mauzy contended. “I’m for making the bad driv ers pay more and the good driv ers pay less,” Mauzy said. “That is the way insurance is supposed to work.” w% V ife ' ' ' 'S<r? ^ r '/ t&ii nnfiVftftfrthttn ’• A; ~ 0- JF Some mail stopped because of strike system Building tree lighting, teremonies scheduled Friday Texas A&M’s Christmas tree Khting service is scheduled for p.m. Friday on the east steps the System Administration aiding. The student “Y” association ponsors the annual program, eatured are university and high thool groups and the season’s reetings from A&M President *ck K, Williams immediately nor to the lighting of the pole flights on the east lawn. A&M students who will give ! *dings include Student Senate fesident Kent Caperton, Deputy orps Commander Thomas C. , ’ n i Jn, and YMCA Religious tograms chairman John Hulse. Three Christmas selections will be sung by the A&M Consolidat ed School Choir, under the direc tion of Mrs. H. A. Luther. Dr. Jerry F. Dawson, associ ate professor of history, will read the Christmas message. Group singing and three selections by the A&M Singing Cadets will follow. Singing Cadets Director Bob Boone will lead the group singing. YMCA Cabinet member Sam McGinty will read “The Christ mas Tree.” YMCA secretary Logan E. Weston said the public is invited to the service. WASHINGTON (^—Postmas ter General Winton M. Blount, acting because of the threatened rail strike, ordered an embargo Wednesday on second, third and fourth class mail traveling more than 300 miles. This would cover such mail as publications, catalogues and par cel post, which would include thousands of Christmas pack ages. Regional postal officials were notified the embargo would go into effect at 4 p.m. local time. Blount said the action was be ing taken in advance of the threatened strike at 12:01 a.m. today to permit post offices to clear their decks in preparation for the mail congestion a rail stoppage would bring. “We must not run the risk of tying up our post offices at a time when the massive Christmas mail load is bearing upon the system,” he said. Regional directors were given authority to lift the embargo in instances where they have alter native transportation to move mail. First class mail and airmail, including air parcel post, will continue to be accepted without regard to distances, with normal size and weight limitations. Under the embargo post of fices will accept packages limit ed to 36 inches in length, 60 inches in length and girth com bined and 40 pounds in weight, for movement up to 300 miles away. ^ $$ -fj * ■ : * w&iaiMb* r STATE SENATOR Oscar Mauzy addresses a Political Forum audience at noon Wednes day. He criticized state auto insurance policies, saying the insurance industry acts like a monopoly without any restraints. (Photo by Bruce Black) Service fees’ # method topic Experience large part at Senate meet m l PgPPPiMgppgg SiBiSagiBsga % & ■ 11|| I i! : - ■ - fer PRESIDENT Dr. Jack K. Williams inspects Maritime Academy Cadets 2*cston Wednesday. Williams was in the port city touring tne fPersity installations. in other The Student Senate tonight will consider revising its method of recommending allocation of student service fees, President Kent Caperton said Wednesday. The Senate will meet at 7:30 in the conference room on the second floor of the library. A proposal based on the Sen ate having all pertinent informa tion at its disposal will be pre sented by Bill Hartsfield, Senate secretary and chairman of a com mittee formed to study the mat ter. Caperton termed the plan to be presented a “responsible, real istic” one. The Senate also will h e a r a preliminary report from its sweetheart committee which will contain suggestions to cut the se lection costs drastically, Caper ton said. Senators also will hear a pre liminary report on operation feedback, Caperton said. Weekend topic at tonight’s CSC gathering The appointment of a chairman for Civilian Students Weekend Apr. 23-25 is on the agenda for the Civilian Student Council (CSC) meeting tonight at seven in room 3-D of the Memorial Stu dent Center. Second Vice President Jean Mah said Leon Drozd, president of Walton Hall, would probably assume the position if there is no opposition to his appointment. In other business, Mark Olson will report on civilian work on Bonfire. There also will be a report on CSC’s role in fresh man orientation. Miss Mah said the CSC will not sponsor a faculty Christmas dinner because it could not be scheduled before finals and be cause of the poor turnout at the Thanksgiving dinner. The CSC, however, will help any halls which wish to give such dinners, she said. Final laundry pickup Dec. 21 Last laundry pickup day for the semester will be Dec. 21, Laundry Manager George Hart- sock announced Wednesday. Hartsock said students may turn laundry in Dec. 21—regard less of their regular laundry turn-in day—without penalty. All laundry turned in, he said, will be returned to the substations by 3 p.m. Dec. 22. of writing, author says By FRAN HAUGEN Battalion Managing Editor Creative writing is just assimi lating a multitude of your ex perience, intermingled with re search, A&M speech department head J. Frank Pierce told a small Contemporary Arts Committee audience last night at the com mittee’s first meeting of the year. Following a reading of his mystery story “T h e Masks of Man,” which will be published Handicraft courses available spring semester in evenings Evening courses for persons in terested in pottery, sculpting, wood-carving, art-metal working and leather handicrafts will be offered by the Industrial Educa tion Department during the spring semester. Dr. James L. Boone said the two courses are designed by In structor Joan Moore specifically for adults interested in acquiring skills in the various art media. Plastics and ceramics (Indus trial Education 332) will meet from 6 to 10 p.m. Mondays, Miss Moore said. Handicraft design (I.Ed. 336) will meet 6 to 10 p.m. Thursday. Boone, who heads the Industrial Education Department of the Col lege of Education, said individ uals interested in the courses on a non-college credit basis must register as special students. In quiries should be made at the Registrar’s Office. Registration for the courses will be Jan. 11-15. Classes begin the week of Jan. 18. Plastics and ceramics will in volve work in slab pottery, plas tic cutting and shaping, sculpting, firing and glazing and, if indi viduals desire, in wax, stone and woodcarving. “We have potter’s wheels and our own kilns,“ Miss Moore said. Leather work, art metal in alu- Form needled to clear room Students residing on campus who will not be returning for the spring semester should complete end-of-semester clearance forms, Housing manager Allan Madeley said Wednesday. Madeley said the forms can be obtained through a student’s ci vilian military adviser or resi dence hall counselor. He noted graduating seniors should com plete one of the forms. University National Bank “On the side of Texas A&M.” —Adv. minum, copper and brass, enamel ing and batiks are planned in the Thursday course. An enamel ing kiln, leather working tools, new lapidary equipment and pos sibly some for casting are avail able in handcraft design. Cost to the student will include regular registration fees, a $2 to $4 lab fee and materials, the in structor added. “Even though an individual may take the course for non credit, a grade will be given,” Miss Moore noted. “What is im portant though is that the person is there to learn and enjoy.” Boone said the course will be repeated if adequate interest is indicated. The instructor received her bachelor of fine arts degree in painting at Southwestern Uni versity. She also holds a master’s in industrial education from Tex as A&M. Miss Moore has worked in visual aids and publications and did photography and visual aids for the recent Creative Ap plication of Technology to Edu cation (CATE) project at A&M. in “Ellery Queen’s Mystery Mag azine” Pierce explained how he had written the story and talked about creative writing in general. He said a creative writing course will be offered by the English department next semester. “Creative writing is a mental jigsaw puzzle,” he said. “It is asking oneself questions and try ing to give answers.” You can imagine you are in a certain situation or are a certain type of person, and then try to formulate a story around these concepts, he explained. Short stories are also based on ideas, he added. “Most of my stories are manu factured from some idea that strikes my fancy,” he said. “The Masks of Man,” which stresses the need for mystery in life was inspired from a line in “Phenomenon of Man” by phi losopher Pierre Teilhard de Char din. “Give a man a mask he can hide behind, and he’ll tell you all about himself,” it goes. To this Pierce added the dan gling phrase, “Give him many masks and . . .,” he had the idea for his story which involves paintings of masks showing sev en stages of a man’s life. Pierce who has been published by “The Writer,” “Writer’s Di gest,” “Playboy” and “Ellery Queen” (five times) stressed the value of false scents in sniffing out the story, warning prospec tive writers not to throw away valuable research and thinking but to weave bits of researched knowledge into the story. Finals schedule Date Hour Series Dec. 16, Wednesday 8-10 a.m. Classes meeting MWF8 Dec. 16, Wednesday 11-1 p.m. Classes meeting MWF12 Dec. 16, Wednesday 24 p.m. Classes meeting TThSFl Dec. 17, Thursday 8-10 a.m. Classes meeting MWTh2 Dec. 17, Thursday 11-1 p.m. Classes meeting MWF9 Dec. 17, Thursday 24 p.m. Classes meeting MSTThlO Dec. 18, Friday 8-10 a.m. Classes meeting TF2 or TWF3 or TThF3 Dec. 18, Friday 11-1 p.m. Classes meeting MWF 10 Dec. 18, Friday 24 p.m. Classes meeting TThl2 Dec. 21, Monday 8-10 a.m. Classes meeting M4TThl 1 Dec. 21, Monday 11-1 p.m. Classes meeting MWThl Dec. 21, Monday 24 p.m. Classes meeting TTh9F2 Dec. 22, Tuesday 8-10 a.m. Classes meeting MWF 11 Dec. 22, Tuesday 11-1 p.m. Classes meeting TF1 Note: Finals in courses with one theory hour per week will be given at either the last meeting of theory or practice before the close of the semester. If a student is scheduled for three finals in one day, he may request his academic dean to reschedule one of the finals.