Brady Herald (Brady, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 22, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 11, 2000 Page: 2 of 8
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OPINIONS
Ours Voure and Others
‘Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. "
—W. Somerset Maugham
BRADY K HERALD
Page 2
April 11, 2000
Pl
State lowers credit insurance rates
or:
mhers
^CUM
AUSTIN — Texans who buy
credit insurance when they borrow
money to purchase cars and other big
ticket items are paying less for cov-
erage
Insurance Commissioner Jose
Montemayor s order reducing credit
life insurance rates by an average of
21 percent and credit disability insur-
ance rates by an average ot 18 per-
cent took effect April 1 The rate cuts
are the first since 1992
Credit life insurance pays oft a
loan if the borrower dies. Credit dis-
ability insurance keeps up a
borrower’s monthly payments if be or
she can’t work because of sickness or
injury.
About 75 insurance companies sell
credit insurance in Texas In 1998.
Texans paid a total of S398 million
in credit life and disability premiums
Texas consumers who elect to
purchase credit insurance have been
pay ing too much," Montemayor said
" These reductions will save tens
of millions of dollars for people who
borrow money and insure their
loans.”
The cost of the r ost common type
of credit life insurance (single pre-
mium. reducing balance, on one life)
dropped from $288 to $220 on a four-
year automobile note with a total debt
of $20,000.
The rate for the most common type
of disability coverage on credit card
State i Capital
uede-t
ing out and mailing in the U.S. Cen-
sus 2000 questionnaires
Last week, Census officials said
the Texas response rate was 51 per-
cent Nationwide, the rate was 55 per-
cent Broadcast advertisements will
run in low-responding areas to remind
people ot the importance of the cen-
sus, said Census director Kenneth
Prewitt.
A low response rate can affect
whether a city or state gets its fair
share of federal dollars and programs.
courts, including district trial courts,
midlevel appeals courts, the Texas
Supreme Court and the Texas Court
of Criminal Appeals
HIGHLIGHTS
By Ed Sterling
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
balances was reduced from $4 70 to
$1.48 per month on an outstanding
balance of $1,000.
Montemayor offered these credit
insurance tips to consumers:
• Lenders seldom require credit
insurance When they do, Texas law
prohibits them from requiring a bor-
rower to buy the coverage from them
or from a particular insurer.
• If you are told that credit insur-
ance is required, ask to see the truth-
in-lending statement on your loan
agreement If it says insurance is not
required, ignore claims to the con-
trary.
We re Slow to Answer Census
Texas is behind the nation in fill-
Suit Challenges Election
System
Public Citizen Inc. and the Gray
Panthers Project Fund are plaintiffs
in a lawsuit filed last week alleging
the system of electing Texas judges
violates the U.S. Constitution.
The suit seeks to undo a system
that allows judges to preside over
cases involving contributors to their
political campaigns
Gov. George W Bush, who sup-
ports electing rather than appointing
judges, said he would be open to
changing the campaign-finance sys-
tem for state judges.
Chuck McDonald, spokesman for
Texans for Lawsuit Reform, told The
Dallas Morning News the issue is one
for the Legislature to decide, not the
courts.
The lawsuit asks that the current
system be suspended for all state
Other Highlights
• Consumers seeking information
to help them choose or locate insur-
ance companies and HMOs can get
what they need, including complaint
comparisons, from the Texas Depart-
ment of Insurance’s Web site,
www.tdi. state.tx.us.
• The state-sponsored Children's
Health Insurance Program, will be-
gin May 1 for families earning up to
200 percent of the poverty level
($34,100 for a family of four) and
Texas Healthy Kids insurance, which
is open to families at all income lev-
els.
• Under a proposal by Railroad
Commissioner Tony Garza, oil pro-
ducers would be allowed only one
more year to plug inactive wells. Pres-
ently. a producer can keep a well open
indefinitely by paying $100 a year.
Garza said the policy, in effect since
1988. threatens the environment.
• The Texas Water Development
Board is considering a proposal to
build a desalination plant on
Matagorda Bay. The plant, pumping
heated sea water through membranes
to remove the salt, would produce
about 3 billion gallons of fresh water
a day.
WELCOME TO THE MASTERS
MASTERS
2000
41 YEARS AGO
Edited by Amanda Howell
Rabbits give hunters big time; Rochelle drive reset Wednesday
April 14-17, 1959
An estimated 1,200 to 1,400 rabbits
hit the dust Sunday afternoon in a
county-wide drive through the Voca
community
Among the 75-80 hunters were men
from every section of McCulloch
County, plus some neighbors from
Mason County.
1 was very pleased with the drive.
Everybodyseei. edtohaveabigtime,"
said Andy Allen, chairman of the Cham-
ber of Commerce agriculture commit-
tee which is helping organize a series
ot dn ves to thin out the county's swarms
of rabbits before they have a chance to
damage this year's crops.
The first drive, scheduled Saturday
at Rochelle, was rained out but has
been reset for Wednesday, April 15.
The hunters will meet at the East Swe-
den schoolhouse at 8:30 am and then
drive to Howard Price’s place where
dinner will be waiting The drive then
will continue Wednesday afternoon.
"If you can't drive all day, come out
lor lunch and go with us during the
afternoon," Allen urged any hunters
who can get off Wednesday
An air of excitement and good fel-
lowship marked Sunday’s dnve at Voca.
The hunters got a strenuous workout,
but the big rabbits, fat and fast, gave
them lots of sport. A few deer, cov-
eys of quail, and other wildlife were
flushed out of the bushes, too.
Stringing out in a mile-long line;
the hunters drove six to six-and-
one-half miles from the fence at the
Tommy Brook ranch east to the John
Deans house on Farm Market Road
734, where the Voca hosts had re-
freshments waiting and on beyond.
A third drive is scheduled Satur-
day at Melvin, the hunters meeting
at the community center at 8:30 a m.
Summer. paving program
being planned by city
The City of Brady is making
preparations to inaugurate its sum-
mer paving program, said City Supt
James Feazelle. It will be the same
as heretofore, "on a voluntary, prop-
erty-owner basis."
The city will do all the base work
course was 60 cents a foot to the
property owner But with twocourses,
the cost will be 70 cents a foot for
streets 30 feet in width and 93 cents
for 40-foot streets—per property
owner (one on each side of the street)
All work will be supervised by the
City of Brady, thus insuring a top-
notch job, Feazelle emphasized.
"It's up to the property owners to
work up their own projects. One block
is the minimum, or a partial block
where it joins paving We’ll pave with-
out curb and gutter if necessary, but it
will be against the City's recommen-
dation," Feazelle stated.
On projects being worked up, all
payments must be made to the office
of the City of Brady before work will
commence
Property owners interested in work-
ing up paving projects should start
work on them soon, so that the city
can have its base on all projects com-
writers, and Curtis Gleaton was fourth
in number sense.
Bloodmobile Enlists 2
In "2 Gallon Club"
PERSONAL MENTIONS
Guests of mother
Mrs. Oma Stone : was happy to. ,,
have four of her children and their .n;
families as her guests Sunday. They.....
were Mr. and Mrs. E.H. Anderson of
San Angelo, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Lee
Brown and Larry Lee, Mr. and Mrs.
Vonnie Brown, Mrs. Charlie Brown,
Charlie Lloyd and Eddie, all of
Brownwood, and Mr. and Mrs. Elvy
Riley of Doole.
My dad always told me no matter where I was playing-
GET HOME" and turn all the windmills off in wind like this.
Mind workin ‘ overtime—
easy on the meds
1 sorta believe ole Tiger is get-
ting better. I believe he's real-
izing that winning and big
at no cost to the property owner. The pletedby August 1, giving the city the
cost of construction of curb and gut- entire month of August to complete
ter will remain unchanged at $1.90 the paving.
per foot, but there will be twocourses Feazelle pointed out that the city
of asphalt and rock since one course will stand the expense of paving inter-
doesn't hold up satisfactorily, said sections and alley ways over more than
Feazelle, one block.
Until last year, the cost of one * * *
Home from California
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Price and daugh-
ter, Mrs. Dora A. Wallace of
Brookside, Del., returned last Friday
after a two weeks visit in California
and Oklahoma. Mrs. Wallace plans
to spend several days here as guest of
her parents before returning.
money is not as fulfilling to the hu-
man spirit as mixing it with compas-
sion and love.
We've got to admit, he's a super
competitor but that is just not enough.
You gotta have some disappointments
and reactions to 'em to really get it
down. Then ya got it to do all over
again. There’s the big tide—then it
goes out and leaves the trash. Nuff
said.
there. I remembered I was gonna be
late that night so I took all four at
once. I guess I over dosed. Remem-
bered a buncha stuff I'd been trying to
forget. Took me a couple of days
trying to re-forget. Between Ginko
and Herblax, you gotta be careful
with your doses. It's a treacherous
world.
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Rochelle News
R.H. (Bud) Rodgers celebrated his
81st birthday Sunday in the home of
his daughter, Mrs. Roger Benefield,
and Mr. Benefield. His granddaugh-
ter, Mrs. Joe Priest of the Rutherford
Ranch, and other guests shared the
bountiful family lunch at noon.
Mr. and Mrs. Rodgers celebrated
their sixtieth wedding anniversary
some time ago and have lived in Roch-
elle or near it all their lives. They have
three sons, John of Melvin, Bob of
Barnhart and Mart of Rochelle, and
two daughters, Mrs. Allan McShan of
Brady and Mrs. R.C. Benefield of
Rochelle. Mr. Rodgers, one of 10chil-
dren of a pioneer family has three
brothers and two sisters living, most
of whom were on hand Sunday to help
him celebrate his birthday.
FACT-TIP
Before he abandoned the ring for
an acting career, Tony Danza’s record
as a middle weight boxer was 12
wins, three losses.
For results try the Classifieds.
★
Sittin here—mind about half
blank. Not knowing what to write.
Ginko Biloba doesn't seem to help.
Wife's been feeding me two of those
pills daily—one in the morning and
one at night. She left town for a
couple of days so she left out four for
me to take.
I forgot my first day's dosage. The
next morning there were four still
My wife said to get her a 25 watt
light bulb. I asked, "What kind?"She
said, "25 watt!" I got one. It was
wrong. There were eight different
kind (I counted). So, I picked the
cheapest. Got another chewing out.
That's the last box of light bulbs I'll
buy. For somebody else.
★
One day this big truck came up
beside me at a traffic light. It was
about 40 feet tall. Had a big sign on it.
Said SNAP-ON. I presume they sell
underwear with grippers. Course it
could be something else.
MEMBER
2000
TEXAS PRESS
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Literary event
winners named
Three Brady High students, com-
peting Saturday in Lampasas in the
District 17-AA literary events of the
Interscholastic League’s spring con-
test, qualified for the regional meet.
The regional meet is set for April
24 at Brenham.
The three are Gary Schill, who was
second in slide rule Saturday; Jerrilyn
Lohn, who was first in poetry reading;
and Tommye Low, who was second
in shorthand
Brady also had a first place spell-
ing team, Darrell Roper and Barbara
McCord, but they are not required to
go to the regional. Charlotte Griffith
and Valton Bryson were second in
extemporaneous speech, but only the
first place winners in this event go to
regional.
Brady's typewriting team (Ann
Gault, Mary Ann Porter, Karl Otte
and Curtis Gleaton) placed third; Pat
Malone was third among the ready
SNAPDRAGON by Steve Barr
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