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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1981
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.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.
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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,
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Damage to the dormitory at the
four-year, predominately black
college was estimated at $300,000.
He said classes would continue
as scheduled Monday.
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