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FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, 1960
PAGE FOUR : : : EDITORIALS AND FEATURES: : : : THE DENTON RECORD^HRONICLE: :
The New Car Insurance Law
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THE DIFFERING VIEWS
who received a point, in 1959, that
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each one of you are guilty of each
in another part of the rules, casualty rates have always been
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KEEP UP WITH
YOVR FRIENDS
zone every morning he comes
work. Try it for yourselves.
During the first 10 months
hides under the new Texas Safe
Driving Insurance Plan—a plan
which is expected to reward 1.3
million insured Texas automobile
owners with a savings of 20-million
dollars each year. Furthermore,
and maybe more importantly, it is
believed by its proponents that the
new plan will have a salutary af-
fect on traffic accidents that is
difficult to measure in dollars and
dents than does the group motorist
who drives in a lawful manner.
the driver lives who does not drive
as fast as 23 m.p.h. in a 20 mile
Lubbock, under the plan, will pay
18,000 times 20 per cent more in-
surance for a three year period
than the people in Amarillo.
Since I started dictating this let-
ter, I have just received a letter
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By J. O. MUSICK
General Manager
Texas Safety Assn. Inc.
Chief Opponent Thinks
It’s Completely Unfair
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Democrats' dealings with Eisen-
hower. Last yqar he piped and
they danced.
three years, or a total increase of
60 per cent. Driver B pays no in-
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perience of some of the most bril-
liant Insurance men and safety
experts in the State.
HOW PLAN WORKS— House-
holds where drivers have a three
Yesteryear
Looking Back Through
Record-Chronicle Files
year record of no chargeable ac-
cidents, or chargeable convictions
for moving traffic violations, will
will count against them are three
times more likely to have an acci-
dent in I960 than is the group of
drivers whose safety-consciousness
has kept them from having an ac-
cident or being ticketed for a mov-
ing traffic violation.
IS THE PLAN EQUITABLE?-
Many opponents have expressed
doubts about the fairness of the
plan because of the three year per-
iod in which it reaches back for its
records. They say that had many
Texans known they were going to
be penalized, they would have pro-
tested minor traffic infractions in
court. There is some merit of truth
in their arguments and undoubted-
ly many of these people would
have won their cases. But if these
drivers are truly safe drivers, with
the one exception they speak of,
they will not be charged any more
for insurance than they now pay,
fellow who is driving a non-com-
mercial company car, or the tra-
veling salesman, the thousands of
fellows who are driving their own
cars working for oil companies,
probably still be able to keep
them in a trance by playing up
the peace theme, supplemented by
his journeys in search of it.
AWKWARD SPOT
The Democrats wouud be in an
awkward spot if they try to play
rough with a President who, al-
though nearing 70 and retirement,
is working more strenuously than
at any time since entering the
White House.
It seems a good guess that i960
will be a busy year but not a
rambunctious one, at least in the
STRICTLY
SPEAKING
By CECIL PRESTON
Record-Chronicle Staff Writer
Copyrighe 1958
be entitled to a 20 per cent dis-
count below regular premium rates.
With one point against them, the
household will pay the regular
rate. With two, three, four, five,
six or more against them 'you can
get four points for driving while in-
toxicated). the household will pay
A has his insurance rates increas-
ed 20 per cent per violation for
Safety Group Spokesman
Believes It’s Good Idea
Spiraling Costs
County Agricultural Agent Al Petty’s estimate of 14
million dollars income during 1959 by Denton County
farmers and ranchers again reminds us of the varied
and important role the farm continues to play in our
economy.
That, however, does not necessarily mean that Den-
ton County farmers had a larger net income than in
past years. Petty was quick to add that the cost of
producing confined to rise and to take a bigger-than-
ever chunk from the gross income.
This big production cost was not unexpected, either
by farmer or the businessman who continues to watch
his actual costs skyrocket, sometimes seemingly com-
pletely out of bounds and without apparent reason.
Whether you're farming, managing a store, educat-
ing the mind, servicing the public or even operating
a home, the continued increase in costs is surely one
of your big problems.
And it's a national problem—one that deserves all-
out study by all of us. If we can lead the world in
our production, we ought to be able to lead the world
in figuring out a way to cut the costs of that leader-
ship. And this is largely an individual matter.
. Has He Asked Gov. Faubus?
An Arkansas congressman thinks the government
isn’t doing enough to defend the United States against
the icteridae.
Rep. E. C. Gathings, a Democrat, says more federal
money should be spent on the problem. And he asked
other congressmen whose districts are under attack
by the icteridae to meet with him to plan strategy to
get more funds.
This means, we are told, that Rep. Gathings wants
to declare war on blackbird.
“Blackbirds are causing Arkansas farmers each
year more than $5,500,000 in damage to crops such
as rice and other grains,” the Congressmen is quoted.
The Arkansan admits the Fish and Wildlife Ser-
vice is studying the matter but thinks the amount of
research and control work is “entirely inadequate."
•Clearly a case for federal aid . . .
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ly straddles the stripe on a one-
way street — not just 20 per cent
for one year, but for three years.
DRIVING TO WoRK
If you drive as far as five miles
to work each day. I challenge
you to check yourselves, and just
see how many moving violations
moving violation for which they
are found guilty is applied to the
insurance on their own family auto-
mobiles. In other words, a fellow
who is required to drive 100,000
miles a year is put in the same
boat with the fellow who drives
10,000 miles, such as the office and
a corresponding 20 per cent in-
EFs
h5ET-BACK
has been a healthy respect for the
popular Eisenhower.
It was almost as if he had them
hypnotized or they felt it was the
better part of political wisdom not
to antagonize the voters who
seemed highly pleased with Eis-
enhower, as they showed by elect-
ing him twice.
The result last year was a medi-
ocre congressional performance,
with Democrats joining with Re-
publicans in shoving under the
rug until I960 legislation which
could have been tackled in 1959.
Civil rights and aid to education,
for example.
There were some practical po-
litical reasons for the shoving, of
course: This is both a presidential
and congressional election year
and the closer to election day pop-
ular legislation is passed the more
apt the voters are to remember.
Still, while there is talk in the
new session of Congress about big
and bold performances, the rest
of the country can calmly main-
tain a “show me’’ attitude until
talk becomes a reality.
Telephone DUpont 3-2531
Entered as mail matter of the second class at the post office at
Denton, Texas, January 13, 1821, according to Act of Congress,
March 3, 1872
Published every evening (except Saturday) and Sunday morning
by:
styTHINk
LOVESMEI
rate rross S' whin acidenti iudgealsohadadayoffow,it i moving violations assessed against
fought it. I have known of similar even though that traveling man,
cases, senator, and this is not etc., may have driven 500,000 miles
right. The legislature apparently is j and not ever scratched a fender,
assuming that all the violations1 still you are going to accelerate
the past three years were true' his insurance premiums for mov-
answers, and this 1 s wrong l ing violations which, I dare say,
have asked my rural friends how every driver of an automobile in
many tickets they have received Texas is guilty of, whether ap-
from one of my constituents
which reads as follows:
DIFFERING POLICIES
“I know of a RN who was driv-
ing behind a couple other cars
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Discussion of the new car insurance rate plan which
went into effect in Texas on Jan. 1 has caused much
furor. Politicians are already demanding its repeal,
while safety groups and drivers who’ve had no acci-
dents in the last three years are hailing it as a good
thing.
The Record-Chronicle today presents the views of
two who have different ideas. At left is a condensa-
tion of a letter from Sen. Grady Hazlewood to the state
insurance board. At right is a statement by J. O.
Musick, general manager of the Texas Safety Assn.
Inc.
cents alone.
How did the plan come about?
Why change from the old system?
Is It an equitable plan, or does it
The Readers Liked It
The other day we asked what quality it is that makes
a best selling book. Before we asked that question,
we knew the answer in conjunction with the booklet
published by the Internal Revenue Department (you
know, taxes).
Now we run across one of the smaller ironies of
English literature—“Huckleberry Finn,” the most
American of all American books was first published
abroad (in England) 75 years ago last month. Even
the Germans and the Canadians had a chance to read
it in their own editions before we did.
The book was finally issued in the United States early
in March of 1885.
• For a book that in recent decades has been almost
obscured by critiques, the first critical reactions rang-
ed from silence to scorn. Most newspapers, even in-
cluding the New York Times, ignored the book. Those
journals that reviewed it flayed it. New England
led the chorus, we have learned, but other parts of
the nation contributed their mite. The Concord
which is used in America, a leap
year is one whose year-number is
exactly divisible by four. Hence,
I960 is a leap year.
The even centuries are not leap
years unless the year-number to
divisible by 400. Hence, 1900 was
not a leap year, but 2000, 2400 and
2300 will be leap years.
The purpose of leap year is to
catch up with the five hours, 48
minutes and 46 seconds, by which
the actual year exceeds the 365-
day calendar.
year he piped end! Traditionally, women have the
Tis year he can be right to propose to men end to
expected tolatrffie Tune' again. Faskfor dates during leap year. The
EDITORIALS
Important Research Week
Indication Of The Future
ANOTHER MEMORABLE period in the vast field
of scientific research was marked in Denton this wek.
Research grants exceeding $41,000 have been an-
nounced just in the last two days for work being car-
ried on at TWU and NTSC. The grants seem to be
coming so often these days, that it’s almost impossible
to keep up with them.
On both campuses, detailed studies are underway in
many fields At NTSC, scientific research teams are
working primarily in fields relating to chemistry and
biology. At TWU most of the research work is in
the College of Household Arts and Sciences under
the direction of Dr. Pauline Beery Mack.
Research into the unknown is a vital part of edu-
cating the mind. It’s just as vital in the improvement
of man’s living standards and his health.
And as the weeks go by, Denton is becoming more
and more of a research center, thanks in part to the
immenent success of many previous projects carried
on here and in part to the realization by outsiders of
the monumental strides both NTSC and TWU have
taken in recent years. In terms of higher education,
both NTSC (69 years) and TWU (56 years) are still
relatively young. At the rate both are growing in
stature, the best is yet to come.
based on losses sustained. Driver
A gets caught and ticketed by
police for (1) driving 27 m.p.h. in
a 25 mile zone; for (2) making a
left turn at the same place he had
for 10 years and was not aware
the sign had been changed; (3)
driving 65 m.p.h. on the express-
way. Driver B is guilty of the
same violations every day — but
doesn’t get caught. Neither driver
has had an accident. Yet, driver
wholesale companies, etc., any
crease for each point, up to 100
per cent increase.
WHY A POINT SYSTEM?—Stu-
dies show that there is a direct
relationship between highway ac-
cidents and convictions for moving
traffic violations. The group of
drivers who run up a record of
Eight days ago Texas motorists
began operating their private ve-
what has been in effect since 1952.
In 1957, the 55th Texas Legisla- Statistically, the group of drivers
ture wanted to know why auto in- ' * ‘ ""
surance rates were 45 per cent
By JAMES MARLOW
Associated Press News Analyst
WASHINGTON (AP) - This is
the Democrats' last chance to
throw off President Eisenhower’s
Indian sign But they prob-
ably won't He‘s had it on them
for years.
Three times in a row since 1954
the country has watched the ex-
traordinary spectacle of a Repub-
lican president dealing with a
Democratic-run Congress, a situa-
tion made to order for brawls and
bruises
instead, the emocrats got into
few quarrels with Eisenhower,
didn't call names, were mostly
docile and, particularly last year,
moved like sheep under prodding.
This was most remarkable last
year when Democrats, as a result
of the 1958 elections, outnumbered
Republicans in Congress by the
greatest majority since early New
Deal days.
LEADERSHIP
They complained about Eisen-
hower’s lack of leadership. But
they showed scant aggressiveness
of their own Their most consist
as he did last, by banging at the
Democrats to keep down spend-
ing. Arguments about the budget
will occupy most of the year.
There will be political entangle-
ments. for sure, since, with the
exception of Adlai Stevenson, the
only would - be presidential candi-
dates now in sight in both parties
are concentrated in the Senate.
Even if the Democrats want to
kick over the traces by belittling
Eisenhower's presidency, he'll
By GRADY HAZLEWOOD
State Senator
District Ne. 31
Under the new car insurance
law which became effective Jan.
1st, any person guilty of a techni-
cal moving violation, such as driv-
ing 22 m.p.h. in a 20 mile zone, un-
consciously straddling a stripe on
a one-way street, the slow driver
(if you please) who slows down
and impedes traffic by driving too
slowly, as well as the out of town
visitor who comes to a strange
town and innocently turns the
wrong direction on a one - w a y
street, would each have their car
insurance rates increased’ by 20
per cent for each one of these vio-
lations.
In some towns such ordinanc-
es and regulations are rigidly en-
forced, while in others such driv-
ers are only warned. It permits
the deputy constable, or other of-
ficer, to make their own set of
rules by deciding for themselves
whether they will warn a driver
or give a ticket. So, the deputy
constable becomes the judge, jury
and executioner insofar as this
driver's insurance rates are con-
cerned. . . Every county in
Texas will have to have 100 jus-
tices of the peace to try the cases
that will be stacked up for trial,
because no man in his right
mind will ever hereafter pay a fine
when he knows in advance he is
walking into a trap of this kind
last year, Lubbock police gave
35,417 tickets for moving viola-
tions. Amarillo police gave 18,670.
hardly more than one - half as
many. Although nearly twice as
many arrests were made in Lub-
bock, there were 21 traffic fatali-
ties during that period in Lubbock,
compared to seven in Amarillo.
... .Although Lubbock gave out al-
most 18,000 more traffic tickets
for moving violations, the number
of accidents in Lubbock was al-
too, they will have a chance to
prove their safety ability and earn
a discount in the years ahead.
Approximately 73 per cent of the
motorists in Texas are lawful and
accident-free drivers, thus the bur-
den of paying tor the Texas Safe
Driving Insurance Plan will be
shifted to the shoulders of the un-
safe drivers who are causing the
most accidents.
In time all Texas motorists could
benefit from the plan, even those
who have an occasional point
chalked up against them, because
safety experts believe the plan will
encourage safe driving with a re-
sultant reduction in traffic acci-
dents which will lower insurance
rates for all.
wuo’s GOING TO GET RICH?
—If anyone to going to “get rich"
off the new plan it is certainly
not the insurance companies; they
are running the greatest risk of
any group About the only per-
sons who stand to make a finan-
cial gain are the safe drivers.
WILL EVERY ACCIDENT COFT
POINTS?—There are many excep-
tions in the assignment of points
for an accident or traffic ticket.
For example, suppose you are
backing out of a parking place in
a shopping center and accidental-
ly scrape the fender of the car
next to you, you would not be as-
signed points against you, unless
the damage exceeded $25. Also, if
you are ticketed for defective lights
or other equipment, except brakes,
you are not assigned points. Nu-
merous such exceptions none of
which would reflect on a person’s
driving ability are incorporated in
the plan to make it equitable.
WILL COURTS BOG DOWN?—
It has been charged that Texas'
court system will create a serious
bottleneck in handling the expect-
ed influx of traffic ticket appeals.
This, unfortunately, is possible,
but it is not an argument against
the plan. Instead, it points up a
greater need for a revision of our
traffic court system. For many
years the Texas Safety Assn. Na-
tional Safety Council, Texas Bar
Assn., the governor’s office and
others who must cope with traf-
fic problems have fought for leg-
islation that will make Texas’ traf-
fic courts as modern as our state’s
highways.
There will bo strong criticism
to the plan for months to come,
but It is not likely to come from
they are outspokenly opposed to
rewarding individual motorists for
their safe driving.
Texans now pay in excess of 440
million dollars each year for traf-
fic accidents, not to mention the
suffering caused by the loss of
nearly 2,500 lives and over 125,000
injuries. This is a burdensome
price indeed. The Texas Safe Driv-
ing Insurance Plan could do much
to reduce these costs.
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ent qiMilfty throughoot theie yetra does thb punching this yeaT?
and regulations, although the
By HAL BOYLE
NEW YORK (AP) - There’s
something missing in our house
Two corners of our living room
look awfully empty. They are
where our Christmas trees stood.
Perhaps It is now a little too
late or far too early to talk about
Christmas. Most people get a bit
surfeited with the holiday season,
the hysteria of giving and receiv-
ing. the repetition of the carols
and expressions of good cheer, the
sometimes forced atmosphere of
gaiety.
THAT ROUTINE
They are a bit glad to say good-
by to it all, and to get down to
the bedrock effort and resumption
of routine that comes with the
New Year.
But somehow Christmas never
hits me harder than when the
time comes to take down the tree.
There is something so irretriev-
ably final about defrocking this
woodland Cinderella, center for so
brief a time of hearth and heart,
and tossing her Into the nearest
ashcan. It makes me feel almost
like a traitor to my better nature.
It seems like an act of disloyalty.
\ TWO TREES
This year for the first time we
had two Christmas trees, and both
were perfect. One was a tall,
elegantly spare spruce. The other
was of shimmering aluminum.
The evergreen tree was for our-
selves and our 6-year-old daughter
Tracy Ann. You can't beat a real
tree for people. Nothing else quite
satisfies them.
The metal tree was for our 15-
month-old cat. Lady Dottie. Last
year she kept overturning our pine
Christmas tree by climbing it and
trying to snatch the baubles off
its boughs ---------- -----------
SILVER RIBS
We figured this year that if we
gave her a tree of her own she
would behave better. And. sure
enough. she did. She understood
very quickly that the aluminum
tree was her very own. Our only
problem was that she kept gnaw-
ing at the metal leaves until I
was afraid her riba would turn
silver.
about two years ago — all in a
line — and she was stopped and
given a ticket for driving three -_______________
or four miles too fast in the City! white collar worker who works
of Amarillo. It would have cost! locally So. there you have a sit-
her a day and about $12 to talk uation where the first individual
with the judge. On her day off, the has 10 times the risk of having
deal unfairly with many thousands
of Texans? Who's going to get
rich off of it? These are only a few
of the questions posed by states-
men and laymen alike in recent
weeks ------
_ ’ . ..... , . . convictions have a much greater
To begin with, the plan is notLFchance of being involved in acci-
new, it is merely a refinement of
to
of
most the same as in Amarillo.
These two towns have substantial-
lyathe samesspopulation,but.those plan does not visit the wrath of
people in Lubbock got 35,000 tick- the department upon the driver
etsandthe people in Amarillo got, of a commercial vehicle for a mov.
18,000. Now those poor devils in ing violation, nevertheless, t he
crease. Now comes driver C,
who also is guilty of the same
violations as A and B. He gets
caught all right, and he lives in a
small town where everyone
knows the officers, so he geta no
tickets.
So drivers B and C go merrily
on their way. while A pays the
increased rates for both of them.
This is the sort of monstrosity you
have with the system where
you depart from the age-old theory
of losses in rate setting. The net
result will be that the plan will
resolve itself into a contest for
lower rates upon the basis of who
is the most successful in avoiding
police detection — and safe and
careful driving will have nothing
to do with it.
.....____ ___— ..... the past three years in their own prehended or not."
day* of* your'life .T do" not believe towns. So far, I have not found CASUALTY RATES
a single one." Fire. hail, car, as well as other
origin of this tradition la uncer-
tain. It is thought that the Roman
astronomers' name for leap year,
Bissextile Year. was misinter-
preted as meaning Two Sexes
Year, and this was construed as
giving women the right to propose.
Whatever the origin, the tradition
is universally accepted.
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LEAP YEAR
This is a leap year, a year hav-
ing one more day (Feb. 29) than
the ordinary 365-day year.
The day is probably called leap
year because in that year every
day leaps over the day on which
it would ordinarily fall. In 1959
Christmas fell on Friday, so nor-
mally it would be on Saturday
this year, but, since this a leap
year. it will leap over Saturday and
be on Sunday.
Some say that it is called leap
because of the gait of Father Time,
who usually walks at a measured
pace but on leap year jumps
ahead. -
In the Gregorian calendar.
higher in Harris County than in
Dallas County. In essence it found
out that the drivers in Dallas
County (which made up a portion
of one of 10 insurance-rating re-
gions in Texas) were simply a lot
safer than the drivers in Harris
County. But what about the safe
driver in Harris County? He paid
the same as an unsafe driver, just
as the unsafe driver in Dallas
County got off light because of his
neighbors’ carefulness.
Rightfully so, senators annd leg-
islators from the 55th didn't see
the equity in this plan and author-
ized the State Board of Insurance
to make a careful study of various
merit rating plans with an eye to
seeing what could be done to re-
ward the individually safe driver in
Texas.
After an exhaustive study of
merit plans in Canada, California
(eight other states have similar
systems) and from 43 foreign coun-
tries, the framework of the Texas
plan was formed. A continuing
study was made by the actuarial
stiff of the board and Texas De-
partment of Public Safety as they
delved into the facts and figures
of 40,365 drivers' records. With
the statistical information compil-
ed from this source they arrived
at various percentages of credits,
surcharges and time-coverages in
the new plan.
Proponents of the plan do not
declare it infallible, but the plan
does combine the thinking and ex-
(Mass.) Library even banned it, characterizing it as
“the veriest trash.” The Boston Transcript thought
the action of the Concord Library superflous. The
Century magazine commented “that no one wanted
to read it.” But it was the Springfield Republican
that summed up the matter most austerly. “The
trouble with Mr. Clemens,” said the publication, “is
that he has no reliable sense of propriety.”
The only bright spot in the whole operation was
the reader—40,000 before publication. A
later it had risen to 50,000.
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Friends visiting? Have a
new grandchild? Death in the
family? Going on a trip?
That event may not sound im-
portant to anyone else, but
your friends are interested tn
what you do. And your friends
read the Record - Chronicle.
Why not call the Record-Chron-
icle (DU2-2551), ask for Town
Topics. There’s never a charge
for an Item in Town Topics,
one of the most widely read
features to your daily new
15,000 JOIN
MORALS GROUP
JAN. S, 1980
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 - Fif-
teen thousand young women have
been sworn in by the New York
Probation and Protective Assn,
to aid in protecting the morals of
girls here. The theory of this
movement, it was explained, is to
use the subtle sympathy of youths
to bring about such helpful rec-
reation as shall prevent exploita-
tion of leisure time by commercial
and undesirable interests.
F.D.R. KEEPS
THEM GUESSING
JAN 9, 1949
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AP) -
President Roosevelt’s “plate-
side chat” to Jackson Day
diners, lauding independent politi-
cal thinking and joshing everyone
from Republicans to himself,
brought cheers and laughter — but
left unanswered today the question
of his future plans. Democratic
leaders who heard the chief execu-
tive talk at last night's $100-a-plate
celebration interpreted his re-
marks variously as an indirect bid
for a third term, as a valedictory,
or merely a studied effort to
"keep 'em guessing."
TRUMAN ASKS
HIKE IN TAXES
JAN. 8, 1950
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 (AP) —
President Truman today recom-
mended a 42 billion dollar spend-
ing budget to Congress. He said
it will plunge the government five
billion dollars deeper into the red
unless taxes are raised. But even
with the ''moderate" tax increase
he wants, the President set no date
for a balanced budget.
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Kirkland, Tom. Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 135, Ed. 1 Friday, January 8, 1960, newspaper, January 8, 1960; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1468183/m1/4/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Denton Public Library.