White Deer News (White Deer, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1972 Page: 4 of 8
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Austin, Tex. — Insurance again
made headline news on three
fronts here.
* President Nixon's Phase 2 in-
flation controls, the State Insur-
ance Board said, will mean low-
er premium rates for hundreds of
thousands of Texas homeowners.
* Lawmakers threatened to "put
the state in the insurance bus-
iness" unless rates are reduced
for a new catastrophe pool des-
igned to protect hurricane and
other disaster-prone areas.
* An American Insurance Assoc-
ation executive offered to "guar-
antee" that no-fault auto insurance
in Texas would bring a minimum
cut of 25 percent in bodily injury
and property damage coverage
rates.
New homeowner's insurance
rates are expected to be issued
May 1, effective June 1. A fed-
eral price commission order of
37. 5 percent cut in the Board's
"trend factor" ( aimed at keeping
rates up with normal inflation)
may mean a reduction of 2. 1 per
cent in the Central Inland Ter-
ritory. Usual rating formulas
would have meant an insurance
of 5. 9 per cent there.
While most fire and extended
coverage rates will go up, the
rise will be lower than expected
due to new federal limits.
The State Insurance Board pro-
poses to cut catastrophe pool rates
for nonbeach property about a
third. Insurance companies stro-
ngly resisted. Legislators at a
rate hearing retorted that the state
may have to get into the insur-
ance business.
Under the pool, authorized last
year by the legislature, insurance
companies are required to join
in providing coverage for areas
of the coast which cannot buy
policies in the regular market.
The State Board of Insurance
is stydying effects of various no-
fault insurance plans which pro-
vide compensation from a driver's
own policy regardless of whether
he was at fault in an accident.
MORE TIME SOUGHT----
Texas is seeking more time to
avoid loss of $24 million in high-
way funds.
Gov. Preston Smith has asked
U. S. Secretary of Transportation
John Volpe to extend the dead-
line for adopting prohibitions ag-
ainst additional erection of bill-
boards adjacent to interstate and
primary highways. A transporation
Charlie's
Furniture & Carpet
• CARPET
• DRAPERIES
• FURNITURE
Also Lamps, Pillows, Pic-
tures, Candles and Tole
Painting
'/z Block North Coronado
Center
1304 N. Banks — Pampa
department hearing officer pro-
posed a May 31 deadline for the
state act. Smith asked until Sep-
tember 1, start of the new fiscal
year.
The Governor noted a special
session of the legislature must
be called to enact appropriations
for the fiscal year beginning
September 1.
The session may be timed before
May 31, Smith said, but a later
date would be "preferable. "
Lt. Gov. Ben Bames said the
potential penalty of $24 million
for lack of a billboard act dem-
ands that Smith call an immed-
iate special session of the legis-
lature.
BRINE DISCHARGES HIT—
Parks and Wildlife Department
Executive Director James Cross
told a Senate study committee
the Railroad Commission over-
ruled 100 P. W. D. objections to
brine discharges into public
waters last year.
The Railroad Commission has
authority to permit the discharges
from oil field operations, although
P. W. D. has assigned responsibil-
ities to protect marine life.
A Commision staff member
could remember no case where
oil operator's application for a
discharge permit had been turned
down. He said the Commission
attempts to "educate" operators
to avoid oil spills or threatens
to revoke production allowables
where conditions appear likely
to cause spillage.
Cross suggested reviving of a
bill to authorize the state to de-
mand compensation for fish kills
due to pollution.
AG OPINIONS----
Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin held
the state cannot pay the cost of
primary elections without legis-
lative authorization and approp-
riation, but he went back to
Dallas federal court for guidance.
In other recent opinions, Mar-
tin concluded:
* The Legislative Property Tax
Committee can employ attorneys
and purchase or rent a law library
for its codification research.
* The same committee, head-
ed by Sen. James S. Bates of
Edinburg, must purchase its sup-
plies, materials and equipment
through the State Board of Con-
trol as all other departments of
state government do.
* Texas State Technical Inst-
itute has no authority to grant
baccalaureate or bachelor de-
grees in technical education or
technology at its James Connally
campus in Waco.
* Texas Water Quality Board
and Water Development Board
must approve state loans to local
governments for construction of
waste treatment fajilitites.
* A private non-profit water
supply corporation cannot re-
ceive financial assistance from
the state,
OIL ALLOWANCE SOARS---
Texas Railroad Commission lif-
ted the oil production allowable
to 86 per cent of potential---
OPEN UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP . .
SEA FOOD
MEXICAN FOOD
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Open Daily from 11 A. M. 'til 11 P. M.
Pampa
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WHITE DEER NEWS
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24,1972
highest in 13 months and third
highest since "wide open" days
right after World War II.
At the same time, Chairman
Byron Tunnell warned that crude
oil stocks— at 87. 9 million
barrels— are the lowest since
1966 and 20. 2 million barrels
less than a year ago.
Tunnell said pumping' at the
rate of a year ago would yield
100, 000 barrels a day less oil.
Highest previous allowables
since post-World War II days
were 87. 3 percent in November
1970 and 87 percent in October
1970. Maximum production for
March is 4, 074, 850 barrels a
day.
FEED LOT RULE REWRITE ORD-
ERED—
Texas Water Quality Board staff
members have been ordered to
rewrite a proposed regulation
which would permit WQB Ex-
ecutive Director Hugh Yantis to
issue or deny feed lot permits.
Both ecologists and cattle and
poultry raisers opposed allowing
Yantis such authority without
requirement of notice or public
hearing. Cattle and poultry ind-
ustry spokesmen expressed doubt
they could comply and opposed
defining agricultural wastes as
"ecological contaminants. "
COURTS SPEAK—
Texas Supreme Court will con-
sider March 22 whether South-
western Bell Telephone was jus-
tified in building a parking lot
at its Spring Valley office after
the city said it couldn't.
The High Court heard arguments
that Rusk Mayor E. H. Whitehead
should be allowed to run for the
legislature ( from District 15,
Leon , Houston, Limestone and
Cherokee counties). A decision
is expected before February 28,
when candidates draw for ballot
places,
Supreme Court judges will hear
March 15 an appeal over constit-
utionality of requiring a minor
to conform to an Odessa city
charter regulation on personal
injury damages.
Conviction of a Corpus Christi
film projectionist for exhibiting
obscene movies was reversed by
the Court of Criminal Appeals.
APPOINTMENTS----
Governor Smith named as the
first Texas student ever to serve
on a state university board of
regents Richard Allen Moorelll,
a black law student at the Univ-
ersity of Texas, Moore, 28, will
be a regent at Texas Southern
University, Houston. Wells Stew-
art of Houston was reappointed
to the same board.
Margarette E. Mayhall of Aus-
tin. Dr. Aram Glorig of Dallas
and Dr. Harold N. Williams of
El Paso were reappointed to the
Texas Board of Examiners in the
fitting and Dispensing of Hearing
Aids.
SHORT SNORTS—
State Securities Commissioner
Truman G. Holladay will retire
effective April 1 and will be suc-
ceeded by his deputy, Roy W.
Mouer, 37.
Parks and Wildlife Commission
is expected to review the Must-
ang Island purchase controversy
at a Februay 25 meeting.
Sen. Hohn G. Tower designated
as his re-election campaign man-
ager Mrs. Nola Smith of Austin,
first Texas woman to run a state-
wide campaign.
Republican National Committ-
eeman Peter O'Donnell Jr. of
Dallas resigned his job; a succ-
essor will be named March 13.
Guidelines for implementing
a new quarter system for Texas
schools were reviewed here last
week.
A record turnover in both the
House and Senate is seen.
April 2-8 is Evironmental Ed-
ucation Week.
TAX DEADLINE NEARS
FOR FARMERS, FISHERMEN
Dallas, Tex. -- North Texas
farmers and fishermen who did
not file a declaration of estimat-
ed-Federal income tax by Jan-
uary 17 may have a tax dead-
line by March L
Ellis Campbell, Jr. , District
of Internal Revenue for North
Texas said today that if you
earned at least two-thirds of
your 1971 gross income from
farming or fishing but did not
file an estimate by January 17,
you must file your 1971 Federal
income tax return and pay any
tax due by Wednesday, March I,
1972, to avoid penalty for un-
derpayment of estimated tax.
FREE PHONE SERVICE
OFEERED ON FEDERAL
JOB INFORMATION
To improve Federal job infor-
mation services to the public,
the Civil Service Commission is
introducing toll-free telephone
service on February 14, 1972, from
any point in the North Texas area
to the Dallas office. *
Vere B. Robinson, Acting Area
Manage1 of the Commission's
Dallas Office said, "We believe
this new service will significantly
increase our ability to provide
prompt and accurate information
on current Federal job opport-
unities as well as information
about special employment prog-
rams for returning veterans. "
Anyone in the North Texas area
may call toll-free 1-800-492-
4400 ( in the immediate Dallas
area, the number is 749-3156)
The North Texas area includes
such localities as Amarillo, Lub-
bock, Wichita Falls, Texarkana,
Abilene, Sherman, Waco, and
Tyler. Applications for employ-
ment, job information, and other
Civil Service pamphlets will be
mailed on request.
Mrs. Robinson emphasized that
this new service is a means to
provide prompt Civil Service em-
ployment information to all seg-
ments of the public and does not
imply an immediate increase in
Federal manpower needs. Al-
though Federal employment has
declined somewhat since 1968,
in a workforce as large as the
Federal Government there is a
continuing need for qualified
persons in many occupational a
areas. Information about these
current needs may now be obtain-
ed simply by placing a toll-free
call directly to the Dallas Area
Office.
Surgical Patient
Mrs. Rick Ramming is a st
gical patient in Highland Gen-
eral Hospital in Pampa.
L. J. Zachry
Optometrist
669-6839
Pampa, Texas
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White Deer News (White Deer, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 24, 1972, newspaper, February 24, 1972; White Deer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1181750/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.