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Thursday, November 13, 1986TThe Battalion/Page 3 State and Local Motorists enjoy ‘license to express’ duced fees give new life to personalized plates in '87 By Vickie Faour Reporter Hey SEXEE, would you like to Bl-XME sometime? I’d like to get INKIE with you. O-HECK, just uxz I }ETIT! lizz [ These are just a few messages KB 312 Brazos County motorists ■fl created to personalize their li- ■e plates for 1987. ii/d Beginning (an. I, 1987, it will cost mz b |5 less to tell other motorists JZZl)iH>K*E, AAARC’Tl, BAAAAH or t/z H• The annual fee for person- ./■d license plates will drop from itosm. The reduction was approved dur- fir Bne of the recent special sessions withlB e Texas Legislature in an effort iattract some of the nearly 1 ()(),()()() iOti-rists who canceled their special nujlaKS after the fee was raised from . jj T5 to $75 during the 1985 regular tpBon, says Dian Neill, director of • HDivision of Motor Vehicles with -—jejfiighway department. Bhere were about 154,000 per- ;K mllized plates registered in the ate before the fee was increased,” eil says. “Obviously we’re not serv- glll Texans who want such plates, hetfeliope the fee reduction will help l.is'c tslrve them better as well as regen- i 'att the lost dollars to the state.” u State Department of High ly! and Public Transportation re- tives $1.25 from the sale of each Bal plate, Neill says. She says the .‘ma nder of the revenue goes into kn te state’s general funds. i f i t idPtrsonalized plates were offered -i-Bexas first in 1965. More than OOn were issued that first year. "Neill says names, phrases and ' 1H jbrps relating to the driver’s alma later are among the more popular loke.s in individualized plates. 111 In Bryan-College Station some ^hotprists express their Aggie spirit ■ 2TH MN, OIG M AG, AG- iMO.M and \ A(.(iIE. And there Bithers who are perhaps doctors, —/R TANK, DR DIRT, K-9 DR or le air conditioner repair man — jRkooi.. Bhen there are those who wish to Boctors, TO BE MD, ATM MD ad AG DVM, or even someone who Photo by Nancy Conces A&M junior Dale Westbrook has owned this personalized license plate for two years. might need a doctor — AH CHOO. “Personalized plates are fun for both the vehicle’s owner and for other motorists,” Neill says. Former student King Hammock, owner of a 944 Porsche with a li cense plate reading SURF IT, says the plates are an extension of the person who creates them. “Not only have I personalized my car with special touches, like person alized rims and paint,” he says, “but to complete the package, I had to have the personal plates.” Hammock says he kept his per sonalized plates even after the price increase. “I kept my plates because I didn’t want to lose my identity,” he says. Hammock says that early one morning on the way to the beach, his plates got him out of a speeding ticket because the of ficer who pulled him over was a surfer, too. Another A&M student says he gets a lot of attention with his license plates. Junior Dale Westbrook, owner of a 1983 Toyota Celica with license plates ABUZME, says “Driving down the highway in Houston, there are always girls who stick their heads out of their windows and ask me to pull over.” Westbrook says he and a friend saw a car with the plates AMUZME, and that’s where he got his unusual idea. He says he wouldn’t have kept his plates when the price was increased, but he had the money at the time. Neill says up to six letters and two spaces can be used in personalizing a license plate. She says requests are screened to see that they don’t dupli cate an existing plate and that they meet basic good taste requirements. Neill says once the plates are ap proved, they are issued in about four weeks. And the plates are registered to the individual rather than the ve hicle, she says. “We’ve had some plates issued to the same motorist for 20 years,” Neill says. “They may change vehi cles, but the plate goes with them.” But Neill says many names and phrases previously taken now may be available because of the drop in demand after the fee increase. “With about 100,000 plates canceled. I’d encourage interested motorists to inquire whether their choices are now available,” she says. “A few of the hard-to-obtain names and words are now free.” So BIG-TEX, you might be KRU- ZIN in your XKALBR, drinking your CUTTY-S, but if GOD-C-U he won’t be saying CHEERS! Two oilmen favor a 10 percent cut in oil production AUSTIN (AP) — Two Dallas oil producers said Wednesday that Texas, along with Louisiana and Oklahoma, could help stabi lize petroleum prices by lowering oil production by at least 10 per cent. But major producers, joined by many of the state’s independents, told the Texas Railroad Commis sion that such a move would cost oil producers and the state mil lions of dollars. Everett Hutchinson, spokes man for Exxon Corp, said, “A 10 percent reduction in the state will not in any way strengthen our do mestic energy industry and will have a significant negative impact on Texas.” R.J. Swaggert, speaking for Mobil Production of Texas and New Mexico, said, “If this 10 per cent reduction went into effect, Mobil would have to shut down 300 wells in Texas.” The few supporters of a reduc tion claimed it would stabilize Texas industry and bring back better oil prices. The Wednesday hearing was held on a request by Dallas inde pendent oil producers William Burrow and H.S. Bennett that oil production be cut by three to five days a month. “We’re amending our original petition of 10 percent to include a five-day reduction because that has been recommended by T. Boone Pickens (prominent Am arillo oil operator),” Burrow told the commission. “T. Boone said a 25-day pro duction schedule would firm oil prices, and I think he’s right,” Burrow said. Susan Cory, the N commission’s _ chief legal counsel, said the three- member panel would decide Monday whether to schedule a decision on the proposal for Nov. 17. The commission also could ask her to make a report and a recommendation on the idea, she said. Supporting Burrow’s request was W.R. Edwards, a Houston en ergy consultant, who said the commission’s current method of using estimates of market de mand from refiners produced surpluses. "Low prices are obtained by surplus supplies,” Edwards said. “Nominations now exceed the market demand. The Railroad Commission should have reduced allowables by 30 percent during the last 10 months to meet market demand. “The curtailment of produc tion and reduction of the surplus will result in a rapid recovery of prices to oil producers.” Burrow said the governors of Louisiana and Oklahoma already had indicated they would reduce production in their states. He also proposed that any major com pany that increases it’s imports next year be penalized by reduc ing its domestic production the same amount. Bennett said he was not back ing the import penalty. Hutchinson said the reduction would result in other countries merely producing additional oil to replace Texas’ lost production. In addition, the state would lose about $27 million in oil and gas taxes, he said. 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