HE BATTALION Friday, February 25, 1972 College Station, Texas Page 3 U Texas consumer advocate urges legislation on insurance companies Corps ol presemi an-ttioy D. Fori, V! raid Driv f ily OVIK Week right 2 Prin or Friend >m Cob rge £r«] Club 0 Jy Discoid s ic p. m. ITER'' AUSTIN, Tex. (iP) — A Texas consumer advocate strongly back ed legislation Thursday to guar antee policyholders something more than apologies when life insurance companies go broke. Executives of two leading Tex as-based companies, however, at tacked the idea of a “kitty” to pay off claims of defunct firms. The testimony was before an interim legislator-citizen study committee chaired by State Insur ance Commissioner Clay Gotten. “Why should the policyholder be the one to bear the burden of an insurance company failure? . . . They are the ones who are least able to bear it 4 ” said Joe K. Longley, chairman of the Tex as Consumer Association’s legis lative committee. Longley endorsed Cotten’s pro posal requiring all insurance com- See here Ryan’s Daughter, Devils top movies If you will be in the B-CS area this weekend, you will at least have your pick of two very fine movies to take your mind off your troubles. Ken Russell’s The Devils will be playing at the Campus, and the Palace will fea ture David Lean’s Ryan’s Daugh ter. While both films are far better than average, our pick is Ryan’s Daughter (despite the two bucks you have to pay for the ticket). This film, although given a chilly if cordial reception by the “big city” critics, deserves a Film G.P.R. = 3.7 and is sure to be an audience pleaser. Ryan’s Daughter stars Robert Mitchum, Trevor Howard, Christopher Jones, Les McKern, Sarah Miles, and John Mills—who took the Best Supporting Actor Oscar at last year’s Academy Awards for his performance of the town idiot. While this is not one of David Lean’s finest flicks, the photog raphy is beautiful, the acting is fine, the story is interesting, and the themes are eternal. Basically Ryan’s Daughter is a story of love cast against a back ground of conflict and social up heaval while filmed among some highly photogenic natural set tings. Specifically, it is the story of Rosie Ryan, the daughter of an Irish pubkeeper and informant to the occupational British troops, who finds herself first unhappy in her marriage to her childhood idol—the village schoolmaster— and then involved with a war- hero (WW I) British officer who is the commander of the local camp. The film does a fine job of painting the “local color” of a small Irish village and its inhabi tants. In fact, the only bad point about the film for me was that I really didn’t see any justifica tion for paying “this year’s prices” for “last year’s film” (a habit the management of the local theatres seems to be forming these days). However, you can also see a fine film this weekend for the usual $1.50—The Devils, which stars Vanessa Redgrave and Oliv er Reed. What we have is a story of a BATTALION CLASSIFIED WANT AD RATES One day 4f per word each additiona Minimum charge—75c of per word ional day Linimum charge—ioc Classified Display $1.00 per column inch each insertion DEADLINE 4 p.m. day before publication OFFICIAL NOTICE !>! Student Publicati' ust arrive In the Office ions before deadli Official noti eadline I p.m. of the day proceeding publicati 10 P,I ’(R) (HIKE !5 P.H SING ! KHIIi The English Proficiency Examination for Junior and Senior Economics majors will be held Tuesday. March 14, at 4:00 p. m. in Room 108 Nagle Hall. Economics majors must pass this exam to be eligible for come i sign 82112 pass graduation. Please come by Room 115, Nigle Hall, by Friday, March 10, up for the exam. "SPRING AWARDS SCHOLARSHIPS"— Application forms for Spring Awards Pro gram may be obtained from the Student Financial Aid Office, Room 303, YMCA Building until March 31, 1972. All applica tions must be filed with the Student Finan cial Aid Office by no later than 5 :00 p. m. April 1, 1972. Late applications will not he accepted. 82121 3 P. M. To be eligible to purchase the Texas A4M Univeratty Ring, an undergraduate student must have at least one academic year in residence and credit for ninety-five (95) semester hours. The hours passed at the preliminary grade report period on March 13, 1972 may be used in satisfying this ninety-five hour requirement. Students qualifying under this regulation may now leave their names with the ring clerk, room seven, Richard Coke Building. She, in turn, will check all records to determine ring etifibility. Orders for these rings will be taken by the ring clerk starting March 27, 1M2 and continuing through May 5, 1972. 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College 823-8051 • Watch Repairs • Jewelry Repair • Diamond Senior Rings • Senior Rings Refinished C. W. Varner & Sons Jewelers North Gate 846-5816 remarkable man involved in a deadly power play. Oliver Reed, as Father Grandier—a priest who is “all man,” defends his beloved city’s walls from the demolition ordered by Cardinal Richelieu, the power behind the throne of the jaded Louis XIII. Vanessa Red grave, as Sister Jeanne, plays the tormented Mother-Superior of an Ursuline convent who is to cause the fall of the priest. To the dull- witted this movie will only seem “wierd,” but to anyone else it should prove both to be a fine film and deserving of a film G.P.R. = 3.4. panics that sell life and medical insurance in Texas to hold a cer tain amount of their funds in trust. The money would be used as a “guaranty fund” to pay claims of policyholders against insolvent insurance companies. Ben H. Carpenter of Dallas, board chairman of Southland Life Insurance Co,, denounced the plan as a “poor political expedient.” “This is locking a barn door after the horse has been stolen, and then assessing the neigh bors for contributions to buy a new horse, and at the same time permitting other barn doors to remain unlocked,” Carpenter said. Carpenter said the answer to insolvencies lay in an “early warn ing system” and in raising the number of state examiners who probe for weak spots in insurance companies. “There is nothing to stop some one from taking the money and stock and going south with it, is there?” asked Sen. Murray Wat son of Waco, who sponsored an unsuccessful guaranty fund bill last year. “There is no way you can pre vent crookedness,” Carpenter re plied. Watson said he had never seen Carpenter testify before legisla tive committees in favor of larger appropriations to hire insurance examiners. “I hope you show as much in terest in testifying before the House Appropriations Committee as you have in testifying against the policyholders of Texas,” Wat son said. Longley said 45 companies in Texas had gone into receivership in the past nine years, with a resultant loss to policyholders and their beneficiaries of at least $40 million. “Are you connected with Ralph Nader?” asked one committee member, W. H. Seay, president of Southwestern Life Insurance Co. and president of the Texas Life Convention. “He is a member of our asso ciation, but other than that, I don’t know of any connection,” Longley replied. Seay also asked Longley if he thought the Texas Consumer As sociation should bail out its Okla homa counterpart if it went broke. “I sure would if they were in the business of writing insurance,” Longley replied. •Gotten told the committee the purpose of the “guaranty fund” proposal was to “establish confi dence among the public that when they purchase an insurance policy . . . they will be fully protected . . . just like a depositor in a bank is protected by the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.)” “This is a very small price for the insurance industry in this state to pay for the confidence of the public,” he said. State Insurance Board Chair man Larry Teaver said he thought a means could be found to remove what he called “inequities” in volved in the payment by strong companies for the mismanage ment of weak ones. Wiseman outlines moon experiments Several new lunar experiments, including placement of a cosmic ray detector on the moon’s sur face, are planned for the last two scheduled Apollo flights, partici pants in an American Nuclear Society reactor conference at A&M were told Wednesday. Donald G. Wiseman, who head ed the Manned Spacecraft Cen ter’s Lunar Surface Projects Of fice during previous Apollo mis sions, outlined the space agency’s program of experiments on the Nixon trip coverage costs networks $1 million each NEW YORK ) The three major American television net works pooled their resources to >cove^ President Nixon’s trip to „ China, but even so it is costing each more than $1 million. Voice and pictures come over a complicated relay from Peking, but viewers here have been aston ished at their excellent quality. Asked if there were any spe cial reason for the technical ex cellence, George Miller at the TV China Pool, said: “No, not really. Technically, nobody in China has been doing anything unusual. It’s just a nor mal overseas satellite transmis sion.” “Technically, it’s a miracle,” said Sid Kaufman of CBS. However, network executives said one survey indicated not as many viewers as expected were watching. New York Arbitron, the only audience survey available so far, said about 60 million Americans watched Nixon’s arrival Sunday night. Network officials said this is about the same number who normally would have been view ing TV Sunday night. The networks arranged their coverage on a pool basis but with each using its own correspondents. Cost of the pool was $1.5 mil lion with ABC, CBS and NBC each paying one third. Each network was allowed 11 persons, and for this each paid the pool $250,000. moon. Wiseman said results of the ex periments should provide better understanding of the history and related aspects of earth as well as of the moon and space. He explained that the cosmic ray detection experiment, planned for Apollo 16, is designed to pro vide the first measurements of fluxes of various elements under the moon’s unique atmospheric conditions. The project also is de signed to measure flux, energy and chemical composition of low energy particles. Wiseman said five new experi ments are planned for the final lunar flight in the current series, Apollo 17. A lunar ejecta and meteorites experiment, he explained, will measure long-term variations in cosmic dust influx on the lunar surface and determine radiant, flux density and speed of particles in meteor streams. Traverse and surface tidal gravimeters will be placed on the lunar surface for absolute gravity and related measurements and for studies of the lunar surface gravi tational field, the NASA official explained. Another experiment, called sur face elect properties, is designed to search for the presence of wa ter beneath the lunar surface and determine layering in the subsur face. Wiseman said a mass spectro meter also will be placed on the moon to analyze the lunar atmos phere. His presentation included color slides showing hardware used on both previous and future lunar flights. He also showed a film highlighting the Apollo 14 mis sion. Allen Newman to speak Monday Allen L. Newman of Temple, assistant state soil conservation ist, will speak Monday at A&M on “Soil Survey Interpretation and Use.” The 7:30 p.m. .program in Ag ronomy Building Room 107 is sponsored by the A&M Collegiate Chapter,;., Spil Conservation So ciety of America. Chapter president Steve Hart said Newman’s lecture includes a slide presentation. The program is open to the public. V • > q v '- / ’ " ; ;. J ; ^ •' ; •' ‘ ’ • 7 • . ’ -' 7 SIK77 iti % ■ i «§i®i Mi #777 Were you born to fly? Not everyone is. It takes a blend of brains, drive and dedication. We’re looking for men like this for the Navy Air Team, men who are Doers. If you measure up, we’ll teach you all the skills demanded to handle our sophisticated aircraft. When we’re through, you’ll have your Wings of Gold and a commission as a Naval Officer. So it works both ways. You get an aeronautical education and a career. And we get another born flyer. If you’re going to be something, why not be something special? For more information about Naval Aviation, see the Officer Information Team on campus Feb* 28 to Mar* 3 from 9 a*m* to 5 p.m. in the Memorial Student Center, or write to: Officer Programs U.S. Navy Recruiting Station 2320 Labranch Street Houston, Texas 77004 „ _ The or call 224-5897 NjlVy