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Page 6AThe Battalion/Thursday, December 4, 1986
Car rates rising
Chairman: Texans not hurt
AUSTIN (AP) — State Board of
Insurance Chairman Lyndon Olson,
stung by criticism from Attorney
General Jim Mattox, said Wednes
day a staff-proposed 9.8 percent in
crease in auto insurance rates would
have Texans paying no more than
they paid two years ago.
Olson stressed to the annual hear
ing on motor vehicle insurance that
the board had approved decreases in
premiums the past two years — 3.8
percent for 1985 and 5.1 percent for
the current year.
“Everybody tries to take the
credit, but it was this board that gave
those decreases,” said Olson. “If we
should decide to accept the staff rec
ommendation that would mean peo
ple will be roughly paying what they
did two years ago.”
The insurance industry has rec
ommended a statewide increase of
19.7 percent or about $550 million
in additional premiums.
Mattox told a news conference
Tuesday that the board should not
grant any increase in auto insurance,
because the companies could still
make a profit if premiums were cut
9 percent for next year.
“The request by insurance compa
nies for a 19.7 percent increase is
‘unconscionable,’ ” Mattox said.
Mattox said insurance rates
should be lowered because most
drivers are wearing seatbelts and the
drinking age has been raised from
17 to 21, resulting in a smaller traffic
toll.
Daniel said the staff recommenda
tion was based on an estimate of 65
percent compliance with the state’s
Olson said
board will not
rate, effective
later.
the three-member
decide on the 1987
next April 1, until
Olson also warned that the auto
insurance may be “the next crisis” in
the Texas insurance industry.
“Hopefully, the crisis in general
liability insurance is beginning to
work itself out,” Olson said. “I’m
concerned that two or three years
from now the next crisis will be in
auto insurance.
“This board is not going to allow
the consumer to be kicked around
but at the same time we want to keep
the companies solvent.”
Olson commented after Gaylon
Daniel, board actuary, said that
about 60 percent of the companies
now selling auto insurance in Texas
are selling policies at lower prices
than the maximum rates set by the
board.
“If we . . . accept the staff
recommendation that
would mean people will be
roughly paying what they
did two years ago. ”
— Lyndon Olson, insur
ance chairman
mandatory seat belt use law, com
pared with an estimate of 15 percent
use before the law went into effect
last year.
He said the staff recommendation
allowed a 3 percent reduction be
cause teen-age drivers can no longer
legally buy liquor.
He said much of the increased
cost of insurance was caused by
mounting bodily injury claim awards
and also an increase in the number
of claims filed.
Olson said the increase in bodily
insurance coverage would have been
far greater if the staff had not given
credit for use of seat belts.
In Advance
Panel to discuss African agriculfui;
A panel discussion on African
agricultural and industrial devel
opment titled “Africa: Facing the
21st Century” will lie held at 8:30
tonight in 301 Rudder.
Two Texas A&M professors
and two Nigerian graduate stu
dents will each present 15-minute
talks. Dr. Donald Karris, agricul
tural economics professor, will
speak on economic policy in Af ri
can livestock marketing.
Dr. Wesley Peterson, assistant
professor of agricultural econom
ics, will give a possibleoj
lion for the decline off(*.:|
pi oductivity per capitasiiKil
ca’s independence from!
pean colonization.
Damien Ejigiri, an arclii:4
student, will speak on
work ethics and ChiboOm
agricultural economics
will discuss industrializaikt
The discussion is spot!
the African StudentClubii:
eiation with the Inten
Student Association.
CS parks to sponsor Christmas eve
The College Station Parks and
Recreation Department and Les
ter’s will sponsor a series of events
to start off the Christmas season.
“Christmas in the Park” in
cludes a Christmas light display
every night during December
from 6 to 10 p.m. 1 he display can
he seen at College Station Central
Park, ofT the East Bypass at 1000
-pap Road.
The other events scheduled at
Central Park include:
• Stage Center performing a
Christmas play at 7:30 pj
day.
• The A&M Cons
High School Choir wii|
Christmas carols at 7 p,m,|
day.
• A variety of entertain:
scheduled for Wednesdii
I hursday. Visitors canvisii
Claus and his workshop,
the manger scene,andcnpl
snacks.
Admission to all theei:fc
free. For mote informatxt|
Sheila Mason, 764-3408.
Seminar hosts former shuttle astroi
Former shuttle astronaut Dr.
Bill Thornton will discuss the role
of bioengineers in space in the
MSC Main Ballroom at I p.m. to
day.
Thornton, scientist and astro
naut with NASA, will lecture on
the role of medicine and engi
neering in space and the adapta
bility of human bodies in space.
Thornton developed the shut
tle treadmill for in-flight exercise
used by shuttle astronauts and
holds 35 patents on space related
inventions.
Also, Dr. Wendell Mendel), a
planetary scientist with NASA,
will discuss engineeringpri
that occur during space fid
Me i id el I is current!) m
with NASA’s SolarSvstemM
ration Division to devebfm
h>i i uture lunar missiomihl
result in the building I
manned lunar base.
Carole Baas, a gradiii
oengineering student an
chairman of the event, a
program is designed tosk
numerous areas of bioect
ing and the close relation^
tween biology and engined
space.
Lewis' advice to freshmen:
'Keep your sense of humor'
Aetna to l
for cut hai I
AUSTIN (AP) — Predicting that tough budget deci
sions await them. House Speaker Gib Lewis told new
state legislators Wednesday they should rely on
straight talk and a sense of humor to succeed.
It also helps not to have too high an opinion of one
self, he suggested.
Lewis told the orientation session for newly elected
members of the Legislature, “Don’t take yourself too
seriously. And don’t take anybody else too seriously, I
might add.
“Probably you think you’re the most important per
son in the world because you just got elected. Let me
assure you, there’s 150 prima donnas down here (in
the House) and there’s 31 supreme prima donnas over
in the Senate.”
Lewis, who hopes to be elected House leader for a
third time when the Legislature convenes next month,
noted that Texas still faces a staggering financial crisis
despite two special sessions this year which cut spend
ing $750 million and raised taxes $860 million.
Comptroller Bob Bullock has predicted that law
makers will face a $1 billion deficit for the rest of the
current fiscal year and the possibility of a $4 billion
shortfall for 1988-89.
“It’s going to be a difficult time. We’re going to have
some shortfalls in our budget that we are not looking
forward to,” Lewis said.
He said lawmakers must keep their credibility with
one another, the press and the public.
“Always shoot straight,” Lewis said. “Don’t ever dis
tort any facts on the House floor. That is the big no-no.
Don’t be afraid to say, ‘I don’t know.’ I think I’ve got
ten in more trouble by trying to answer a question that
I didn’t know the answer to than on any other thing
I’ve encountered.”
Lewis said it is important to remember that each law
maker is trying to represent those who elected them.
“In the heat of the legislative battle, be sure to re
member to keep your cool,” he said. “Always realize
that (the other) person is expressing a viewpoint in
many cases of their corJstituency back home or their
own personal beliefs.”
The speaker also suggested prudence should a law
maker visit an Austin watering hole.
“If you embarrass yourself, you embarrass at the
same time those people who elected you,” he said.
“You are an elected official of the state of Texas, and
you have to present that image at all times. Be sure it is
an image you’d be proud of.”
AUSTIN (AP) — Asuiq
court has ruled that am
company must pay wortal
pensation benefits to an A n
who injured his handinati
accident in a CollegeStatio
Aetna Casualty and Surf
said And rew E. Orgon raj
the job when a glassshatiete
hand at a Ramada 1
1983. But the state's Indus!:
dent Board said he was.
Aetna took the case tow
District Judge William
Georgetown backed the Isi
Accident Board decision.
The 3rd Court of Appei
tin on Wednesday agreed *:
decision that Orgon wasoniii | c; ill
the Ramada Inn because tit® l e;i:
paring for work.
Orgon, national salesmaifi
I exas N uclear Corp. of Am
in Bryan for a business-relit
Terence at Texas A&M. Hei
was hurrying to get readff
conference when the;
from his hand and shaitered
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