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Personalized license plates add individual touch
By BARBIE WOELFEL
Battalion Reporter
‘E-I-E-I-O.”
horns words to an old tune ab-
a farmer? No, actually it’s a
lm bination on a personalized
nse plate owned by the McDo-
d Enterprises.
More and more Texas drivers
are displaying their message to the
world each year with personalized
license plates. Out of a total of 7.5
^million passenger license plates
d each year in the state of
135,000 of these are per-
alized plates, said Gene
terich, assistant regional su-
•visor with the Texas Highway
partment.
“To obtain personalized plates,
; owner of the vehicle must
hd an application to the state
department of highway and public
transportation listing his six
choices of combinations he would
like to use on his plates,” said
Gerald L. Winn, Brazos County
tax assessor-collector.
In addition to the regular regis
tration fee prescribed by law, an
annual fee of $10 is required for
personalized plates which are
issued for a one-year period begin
ning from April 1 and ending
March 31 of the following year.
“A personalized license plate
combination may consist of not
more than six characters; howev
er, a plate bearing obscene or ob
jectionable words or initials will
not be authorized,” Winn said.
Some possible number and let
ter combinations are as follows:
— one to six letters such as “A”
or “ROBERT”
— three letters followed by a
number one through nine such as
“ABC 9”
— four letters followed by one
or two numbers such as “ABCD 4”
or “ABCD 45”
— five letters followed by one
number such as “ABCDE 4”
— one number followed by one
to five letters such as “4A” or “4
ABCDE”
Winn said any combination of
numbers and letters that does not
conflict with the numbering and
lettering system adopted by the
department for regular license
plates is acceptable.
Deiterich recalled one applica
tion for a plate combination that
conflicted with the regular plating
system.
He explained that the conflict
involved Donny Anderson, a for
mer Texas Tech football player
who was drafted by the Green Bay
Packers. Anderson’s number for
the Packers was 44.
“He applied for the combina
tion ‘GBP 44’ for his personalized
plates, but that particular com
bination conflicted with our regu
lar plating system, so we issued
him a similar combination, ‘44
GBP,”’ he said.
Texans who have yet to person
alize their license plates but who
are interested in the project, may
have some problems doing so.
The department is running out
of prefixes in the regular license
plate numbering and lettering sys
tem and may have to begin using
two or three letters in the prefixes,
Dieterich said.
“I can see that conflicts may
arise between the personalized
plating system and the regular
plating system since some of the
combinations may begin to be the
same when we run out of pre
fixes,” he said.
But that hasn’t stopped Texas
HEALTH
drivers from applying for person
alized plates. Most applicants
usually choose a combination that
has something to do with their
name or business, Winn said.
“I put my last name ‘STUARD’
on my plates to add a little extra
spunk to my car,” said Kyle
Stuard, a sophomore business ma
jor from Abilene.
On his Ford Renegade jeep,
Temple Aday, a senior building
construction major from Arling
ton, uses his last name in the com
bination, “1 ADAY.”
Kim Norris, a journalism major
from Banner Elk, N.C. has “KIM-
BO” on her plates. “My father
gave me the nickname and put it
on my plates when he bought my
car,” she said.
Other names seen on plates
around campus include “MISS
JJ,” “MER*J,” “JODY G,” “LES
LIE” and initials like “MSKH 2”
and “JD.”
Special combinations seen on
campus include those with some
type of Aggie insignia such as
“AGGIE,” “GIG EM,” “TAMU”
and “ATM.”
Porter S. Garner III, field dire
ctor for the Association of Former
Students, uses “AGGIE 3” on his
plates to show his support for the
University. His father, Porter S.
Garner Jr., of Laredo, uses
“AGGIE 2” on his plates for the
same reason.
“A vehicle owner with such a
license plate that bears any one of
the Aggie insignia registered by
A&M with the secretary of the
state, is not subject to paying a
royalty to the University because
it is exclusively for his personal
use, not for commercial or manu
facturing use in selling,” said Don
Powell, director of business ser-
Some plates display combina
tions that have a special meaning
to that person but may not be evi
dent to anyone else, Dieterich
said.
The inscription “NO SHOE” is
seen on A&M place kicker, David
Hardy’s car because he kicks with
out a shoe. Hardy is a senior phy
sical education major from Hunt
sville.
To obtain personalized plates in
Brazos County, a vehicle owner
can apply at the county tax asses
sor-collector’s office. He will issue
personalized license plates only to
those vehicles that are currently
registered in Texas, Winn said.
Recurring
By Dr. Stephenson
Staff photo by Brian Tate
his Aggie is one of 135,000 Texans expressing themselves with personalized license plates.
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0RT WORTH — Despite re
's from federal courts. District
irney Tim Curry said he will
tinue to pursue death penal-
against two convicts accused
urdering and raping their vic-
is.
Jtbough the 5th Circuit Court
ippeals in New Orleans set
e the death penalties of Ken-
|h Granviel and Billy Joe Battie
Friday, Curry believes he
luld seek the penalties again.
Although the federal courts
making the death penalty
Janingless by refusing to permit
pitions, we believe that the
/licoo ranviel and Battie cases are so
vingwBage that we should seek the
;«■ dpatli penalty again,” Curry said
ssioitfl .Monday.
her h®Six years ago, Granviel walked
help' int 0 the Fort Worth police station
n Ku" with his pastor and admitted kill-
herf 1 mg seven persons — including
women he had first raped,
attie has been convicted in the
shooting-robbery of a con-
ience store that resulted in the
jpth of two people,
ranviel’s penalty was rejected
in SJ® by the federal court because Dis-
ijttedi' met Judge Tom Cave improperly
Jyofwgttuscd at least one potential
ofSa^Mror. Battie’s penalty was drop-
)t fib’pel because his rights had been
violated when he was not in
formed he could refuse to talk to a
psychologist.
Curry appeared more confident
he could gain a new death penalty
in the Granviel case than the Bat
tie case.
“Most of our witnesses in (Gran-
viel’s) case were police officers
who are still available,” he said.
“I’m less sure of where we stand
with Battie.”
cm tmrnd to mor* serious complications. ® CMS
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