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THE BATTALION Page 5 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1981 is Inis imen .Plij, Lines in front of G. Rollie White Staff photo by Brian Tate sdjkommon sight this week as students pick up their tickets to itfie first home football game Saturday. For all home games, iickets will be distributed on the basis of student classifica- It’s ticket time again Coliseum will be a tion. Graduate students and seniors pick up tickets on the Monday prior to the game. Juniors get their tickets on Tuesday, sophomores on Wednesday and freshmen on Thursday. Non-ticketbook holders pick up tickets on Friday. United Press International URST — A financially trou- Ufid minister’s insurance prog- which a state agency believes preferential treatment to iral Majority founder Jerry Fal- s organizations, knew it had nol chance for success but con- |tied to collect t-appointed premiums, a receiver con- Tbe now-defunct Minister’s list Trust was formed in July 8 to provide major medical in lance to 1,500 Baptist, Method- d Church of Christ ministers. |^as headquartered in Hurst, lo- d between Dallas and Fort irth. ecords show Browning Corp. ternationaf charged ministers | church employees about [5,000 during a two-year period administering the MBT while trust collected about $2.5 mil- »in premiums. ■Receiver Anthony Harris said the administration fee amounted ^nearly 40 percent while the al administration charge is ab- 10 percent. But BCI owner Robert Brown ing said the amount was not exces sive and the profit rate was “not anything exciting to us.” Harris filed suit against Brown ing in July, claiming BCI knew about a year after the trust was formed that it was insolvent and had “no reasonable prospect for financial success. ” However, Har ris said BCI did not divulge its insolvent status and continued to collect premiums. The State Board of Insurance recently released a preliminary analysis of its investigation of MBT, indicating that before it be came insolvent the trust paid $114,000 to Falwell employees for pre-existing medical claims but did not pay $300,000 worth of in surance claims made by ministers across the nation. The insurance board said it had received complaints from minis ters nationwide about MBT’s fai lure to pay claims. Records show Falwell organza- tions, including “The Old Time Gospel Hour,” were members of the MBT for an 18-month period, the Dallas Morning News re ported in its Sunday editions. Officials of Falwell’s organiza tion and the MBT deny special consideration was given to Fal well’s people. “Let me assure we did not get preferential tratment,” said De- Witt Braud, chief executive officer and board chairman of Falwell’s “Old Time Gospel Hour.” Harris said he did not know why Falwell employees received special treatment, but said Browning may have helped Fal well obtain a $5.5 million loan from Heitner Corp. of St. Louis. The insurance board analysis determined that although Falwell employees accounted for about one-third of the total average MBT membership, more than half of total claims paid in some months were to Falwell em ployees. Auditors said they found most Falwell employee claims were 100 percent reimbursement while claims paid to other ministers were repaid at 80 percent as speci fied in the contract with the trust. ALLEN Oldsmobile Cadillac Honda SALES - SERVICE ‘‘Where satisfaction is standard equipment” 2401 Texas Ave. 779-3516 Dorm fire kills one i nsurance practices questioned Browning said Falwell had a different plan document. “When Falwell came into the plan, he said he wanted the exact coverage he had with Blue Cross duplicated, ” he said. A state judge last October stop ped MBT from doing business in Texas. After poring over 2,000 MBT files, the investigators reportedly also found notations such as priority pay” and “executive” written in red ink on claims forms and file folders of some Falwell employees. United Press International TYLER — Investigators are trying to determine if the cause of a fire that swept an old brick dor mitory at Texas College, killing one student and injuring eight others, is the same as in a dorm fire seven years ago. Freshman Tom N. Davis, 19, of Los Angeles arrived on campus last Friday and was killed Sunday in the pre-dawn blaze at the three- story Wiley Hall. Most of the 69 students slept while the fire broke out about 2:50 a.m. Eight other students were in jured by jumping from second- floor windows and from smoke in halation, but none were hurt se riously. Dean L. B. Knowles said Sun day the cause of the blaze still was under investigation, but officials believe it may have started in a room that housed air conditioning and heating units in the dorm built in 1916. Knowles said a fire that des troyed another old dorm at the east Texas school seven years ago also started in a room housing such units. No one was injured in that blaze. “We have not definitely deter mined the cause of the fire, but we do know it was in the vicinity of the utility room,” said Fire Mar shal Jack Hawkins. Hawkins said Davis burned to death in his third-floor room but his roommate escaped. “All of them got out except him (Davis),” said Knowles. “He was on the third floor. His roommate got out OK.” Five students suffered smoke inhalation, including Earl Mulli- rescued from the dormitory roof and admitted to a hospital. Students receiving minor in juries were James McCormick, AUTO INSURAISCL FOR AGGIES: Call: George Webb Farmers Insurance Group 3400 S. College 823-8051 Bobby Peters and Paul Lee. Damage to the dormitory at the four-year, predominately black college was estimated at $300,000. 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