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United Press International
AUSTIN — An attorney for a
senior citizens group said Tuesday
that to avoid misunderstanding,
medical insurance policies should
clearly state what costs the insurance
company will pay.
Susan Kelley, counsel to the
Senior Citizens Legal Project, said at
a state insurance board hearing that
many elderly persons have problems
distinguishing what Medicare covers
and what their medical insurance
policy covers.
“Many people think their policies
pay whatever Medicare doesn’t,”
she said. “That’s not necessarily the
case.”
Ernest M. Cabe, representing the
American Association of Retired
Persons, said he supported eliminat
ing sex and age classifications in
automobile insurance.
But board member Lyndon Olson
cautioned him that some type of clas
sification was necessary.
“Insurance is nothing but discri
mination. What we re talking about
is unfair discrimination,” he said.
“You have to discriminate to set in
surance rates. If we do away with
these classes, we’ll have to have
other ones.”
Board chairman W.P. Daves Jr.
said the three-member body would
continue to solicit data on the prob
lem before drafting a preliminary re
port offering recommendations in
January.
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BRENHAM — The state highway department
claims squatter Frank Gilliam, 76, his wife, Elsie,
65, their tin shack, two dogs, two coyotes and three
hens are in the way of a $7 million bridge that’s
already built.
The Gilliams live under the bridge over the Brazos
River but the state says it can’t maintain the bridge
with the Gilliams permanently camped underneath.
“We ain’t got no other place to go,” said Gilliam.
But Arthur Geisk, resident engineer for the high
way department’s district office, said, “If they don’t
leave, we’ll have to file on them.”
The highway department has given the couple
until Saturday to pack up and move on. If they don’t
vacate the tin shack nestled between the towering
concrete columns supporting the bridge, they can
expect to be charged with criminal trespass.
But the Gilliams don’t intend to budge.
“This water is free to anybody that wants to be
down here and I ain’t hurting nobody,” Gilliam said
Monday. “I’ll make it as long as they leave me alone.
That’s all I’m asking.”
Gilliam, originally from McAlester, Okla., moved
to Texas after retiring from a railroad on a $332
monthly pension. The snowy-bearded squatteranj
his wife have married daughters in Salt Lake City|
and Portland, Ore., but said they don’t want!
bother them.
Gilliam said he couldn’t afford to rent on his pen-1
sion and the couple was turned down for fcdera|l
subsidized housing. They pitched a tent in May but f
replaced it with an 8-by-16-foot tin shed donatedk
an area resident. The shed is heated by a wood j
burning stove and lighted by three kerosene I
terns.
“I chop wood for my stove and fish, ” Gilliam said j
“We take baths in a tub and I catch my rainwafe
from these bridges and use it for washing.
They haul drinking water from surrounding coni'
munities and store it in plastic jugs. When theyneed |
food, they hitchhike 15 miles into Brenham.
Geisk said the Gilliams are creating a public hcaltlj
hazard because they don’t have sanitary facilities,]
have created a fire threat, have impeded f
maintenance and may be injured by sportsmen who |
use the riverfront as a firing range.
If forced to leave, Gilliam said he might move from j
the Washington County to the Waller County sideol ]
the river.
State fundraisers planned
5 top Texans back Carter
United Press International
AUSTIN — Five top Texas state
officials Tuesday endorsed President
Carter’s bid for a second term, and
announced plans for two fundraisers,
including a $l,000-a-person brunch
with the president on Dec. 8.
Lt. Gov. William P. Hobby,
Speaker Bill Clayton, Agriculture
Commissioner Reagan Brown, Land
Commissioner Boh Armstrong and
Treasurer Warren G. Harding all
announced their support of Carter at
a news conference Tuesday.
“I believe President Carter,
under very adverse circumstances,
has compiled a very fine record as
president of the United States,” said
Hobby, who acted as spokesman for
the group.
“I do not agree with his stand on
every issue, but I dobelieve in a very
difficult period in our history the
president has compiled a very fine
record. The dominant thrust of Pres
ident Carter’s administration has
been toward a reduction of gov
ernmental presence in our life.’
Hobby said the president “de
serves renomination and re-
election.”
Carter will visit Austin Dec. 8,
one day after his formal announce
ment to run for re-election.
Lowell Lebermann, head of the
group planning Carter’s Texas visit,
said Carter will attend a
person "presidential brunch" at
a.m. and a $50-a-person funtlrai
at the city auditorium at noon,
Lebermann said the presidenti
be greeted with a rally upon
arrival at Bergstrom Air ForceIki
then honored at a reception hos;
by the Democratic Party ofli
and state Democratic chairmanB
Goldberg.
“In the last three yean Presills
Carter has made a very able pra
dent, and I think his political pL
sophy is in tune with my own
that of the other people assemble;
this table,” Hobby said.
Austin is Carter’s only Texas
on a scheduled six-day
tour after his announcementonDi
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SAN ANTONIO — Muhammed
Ali says he is on his way to Lebanon
to try to help mediate in the Iranian
hostage situation.
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