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Dallas business won’t insure cigarette users DALLAS (AP) — Smokers are finding that puffing doesn’t pay, es pecially when it comes to one em ployer’s benefits programs. Executives of a mobile home man ufacturer based in Dallas, with 11 plants nationwide, has told employ ees they will lose company-paid health insurance benefits next April 1 if they don’t quit smoking — at home and on the job. Palm Harbor Homes, with 1,400 employees nationally, instituted the policy in response to health insur ance costs, which rise dramatically if an employee smokes. “If a company is going to be pay ing the lion’s share of insurance cov erage, then we choose not to pay claims that are generated by the smoking habit,” Michael Herman, vice president of finance for Palm Harbor’s Dallas-based parent com pany, said Monday. Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. spokesman Charles Sahner, whose company is Palm Harbor’s insurance carrier, said he knew of no other firm that has started such an anti smoking policy. What’s Up Wednesday UNITED CAMPUS MINISTRIES: will have an Aggie Supper at 6 p.m.AUSTIN Presbyterian Church. . Kent grou| AGGIE GOP/COLLEGE REPUBLICANS: will meet at 7 p.m. in 510 Rudder Texas Opei EUROPE CLUB: will meet at 10 p.m. at the Flying Tomato. i» torney NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will have a support group meeting 3t 8:30P‘J||i npr i Call the center for the room number at 845-0280. If c.cp ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will have a support group meeting at nooaC; the center for the room number. * "l i ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will have a support group meeting; behalf ot tl p.m. in 145 MSC. Pa” Aincn Hirg. I The wee Umericxn, Thursday il uclent ( ■rer closed ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will have a support group meeting; advana p.m. in 145 MSC. I The 0 P < NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will have a support group meeting at 8:30f governmen Call the center at 845-0280 for the room number. Btnce noth ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will have a support group meeting at 12:15p- to be disci Call the center for the room number. Himstances Hons may t ■ Hinojos; Items for What's Up should be submitted to The Battalion, 216 ReedMcDcr- al’s office ( no later than three business days before the desired run date. We onlyputt- tion of stuc the name and phone number of the contact if you ask us to do so. What'she is cons a Battalion service that lists non-profit events and activities. Submissions an on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. i[ have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315. ■ lation to bi under the i I The Par well saic s legislat Herman said Palm Harbor will re fuse to pay for health insurance for any employee who smokes on or off the job. He said workers may choose to continue smoking, but the com pany will not pay for their health in surance. Workers who claim to be non- smokers will be required “to sign a statement saying they do not smoke at all,” said Lenny Diaz, personnel director at Palm Harbor’s 200-em- ployee plant in Austin. Palm Harbor also has a Lancaster plant. Diaz, who is a smoker, said some employees have complained but were going along with the plan. “I don’t mind because I’ve been trying to quit for some time and they have given us enough time to react,” Diaz said. But the American Civil Liberties Union believes the policy is an inva sion of privacy because “it regulates the behavior of employees off duty,” Joe Cook, president of the ACLU Dallas chapter, said. Commissioner says S&Ls need mortages AUSTIN (AP) — The newly sworn Texas savings and loan com missioner says the state’s thrifts must return to the mortgage-backed lend ing they dominated Before deregu lation carried them into other invest ments in the 1980s. James Pledger, in a short swear ing-in ceremony Monday, said the state’s savings and loan agencies face “a big job” as Texas thrifts battle mounting losses. He took over the office fro:j predecessor, L. Linton Borai Bowman resigned Nov. 16. “The byword of this agtsl going to be safety and sod and strong professional supert from the state of Texas," Pa said. Vot( in el for LUBB ing bets propone ppment [will sway urday’s 1 Ition elec “The thing I am most interested in is that for the kind of investments savings and loans undertake, they have the proper underwriting abil ity,” Pledger said of the 218 state- chartered thrifts. awaited month. Southwest Plan witk “Where does it stop?” he asked. “I understand employers would want a healthy work force, but smoking is only one problem. What if one em ployee is a sky diver; should he be dropped from the health plan?” The 38-year-old lawyer was most recently a state supervisory agent in Houston. In this office, he was re sponsible for both of the S&Ls that account for combined assets of $800 million. His appointment cameastki Iting. eral Savings and Loan Inal: One g Corp. has promised to begin in L ing will [economy galized g idents’m Two Dallas, w tions Sat bly will t Texas to pari-mul reas, R rector ol I Associati Since Istatewidi I pari-mul have d< question Intended to return the thr f fiscal health through const of about one-third of the S&Ls ating in the state, the plan’sik: jective is to recapitalize surviit the industry. “T here is no doubt that the F: and the bank board are plavir: pre-eminent role in the reciml the savings and loan indti Pledger said. 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