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2—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Wednesday, Aug. 4,19*0.
Texas and Texans
overview:
people, politics and pocketbooks
Auto policies simplified
Troubles with the nose<ount
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Kilgore challenges 'vacancies'
KILGORE, Texas (AP) —
Many houses listed by the U.S.
Census Bureau as vacant have
been found to be occupied, dvic
leaders of this East Texas town
said Tuesday as they wrapped
up their own population count.
“It looks like die Census
Bureau, when they were unable
to get any contact from some
homes, listed them vacant when
they really were not,” said
Randy Brogoitti, executive vice
president of the Kilgore First
National Bank.
"Just from a cursory view, it
looks like the census officials
overstated the number of
vacant homes by one-third to
one-half. The residences they
showed as vacant are not
vacant.”
Brogoitti is head of a com-
mittee appointed by the Kilgore
City Commission to oversee a
challenge of the preliminary
census tally that showed 10,395
residents in Kilgore, noted for
the oilwells sprinkled at ran-
dom throughout the dty.
City officials claim the
Census Bureau figures were
2,000 to 5,000 residents shy of the
city’s actual population, and the
count of vacant houses was
unrealistic since the dty has a
housing shortage.
“The census bureau said
there are 296 vacant houses in
Kilgore. The real estate people
would like to know where they
are,” Brogoitti said.
The commission asked
residents to help count their
neighbors, and Brogoitti’s
group recruited 75 volunteers to
record the population, number
of houses and other pertinent
information in their neigh-
borhoods.
The volunteers finished
Tuesday night and were
scheduled to start reporting
today.
"They’ll begin turning in the
results tomorrow (Wednesday)
morning, but it will take us at
least a day to get them in and
tabulated,” Brogoitti said.
"We’ll compile the results,
and the official response to the
Census Bureau will come from
our city commission.”
Communities have 10 days to
challenge the Census Bureau
report from the date the
preliminary figures are
delivered.
“We know some areas of town
that the census officials missed
entirely, such as annexations
since 1978 that we know they did
not toll,” Brogoitti said.
So city commissioners took
matters into their own hands.
“Neighbors know more about
their neighbors than someone
who doesn’t live there,” he said.
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“In a small town, word about
something like this spreads by
osmosis," said ope volunteer.
Residents were given city
maps and assigned familiar
streets, Brogoitti said. They
could list homes and residents
from memory, call for the in-
formation by telephone, or
make a friendly neighborhood
visit, he said.
Volunteers slapped on orange
flourescent badges and hit the
streets Monday and Tuesday,
while city officials asked
residents to be at home Tuesday
night between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.
when a census volunteer would
call.
“The right people can do just
like my neighbor did last night.
She sat out in her front yard and
listed every house in the neigh-
borhood and how many people
lived there,” Brogoitti said. “It
took her about 20 minutes.”
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Houston shoots for number four
HOUSTON (AP) - Despite a
preliminary census count they
say is short by at least 307,430
residents, city officials are
confident final figures will
match earlier estimates of
1,737,000.
The preliminary count of
1,429,570 was released Tuesday
and city officials retained hopes
Houston still will pass
Philadelphia as the nation’s No.
4 city, exceeded only by New
York, Los Angeles and Chicago.
Bernie Petterson, the plan-
ning department’s research
chief, said the preliminary
figures do not include all of
Houston’s geography.
“The geography is only as of
Jan. 1, 1978, an arbitrary date
set by the Census Bureau,” he
said.
“When we get a final figure it
will be as of Jan. 1, 1980, and
will include annexations made
in 1977 and 1978.”
Petterson said that, without a
doubt, three major components
will add to the Tuesday count —
the annexed areas, nearly
45.000 as yet uncounted housing
units, and a downward revision
for a “much too high” vacancy
rate that involves more than
67.000 units.
“We played around with some
numbers and we came up above
1.7 million and we were working
with reasonable figures,” he
said.
“The annexed areas, for
example, are growth areas that
had about 71,000 residents when
annexed and they have grown
since annexation. The un-
counted households are a major
percentage of the undercount
and the vacancy rate will come
down."
Houston had a 1,232,802
census in 1970 and staked claim
to the No. 5 ranking in 1975 by
passing Detroit.
Philadelphia’s preliminary
count has not been released but
Roscoe Jones, Houston's
planning director, is among
those who believe Houston will
rank No. 4 after the final 1980
counts are recorded.
Philadelphia had 1,950,098
residents in 1970 but had
dropped to about 1,815,000 by
1975 and recent estimates have
indicated a preliminary 1980
count of about 1,450,000.
Petterson said Houston’s
Murder suspects nabbed
preliminary count was based on
640,240 households with 2.71
residents per occupied unit.
“The 640,240 units, at first
glance, look excellent, maybe
99 percent,” he said. “But the
11.35 percent for 67,557 vacant
units is too high. From 6 to 8
percent would be a legitimate
rate for vacancies.”
He said Houston had a
vacancy rate of 7.97 percent in
1970 “and it has been as low as
an estimated 3.1 percent" since
then.
The estimate of 2.71 residents
per household, he added, ap-
pears to be quite reasonable.
The 1970 rate was 3.09.
Petterson said census
checking can work both ways.
“I was shocked when I
realized the preliminary figure
included the City Prison Farm
on Lake Houston," he said.
“Well, the prison farm isn’t in
the city limits, so we’ll be losing
the 1,200 they counted there.”
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - It
should be easier to read and
understand your automobile
insurance policy, the State
Insurance Board decided
Tuesday.
By a 3-0 vote, the regulatory
agency decreed that beginning
June 1, 1981, a new insurance
policy form will be used by all
companies selling auto in-
surance in Texas.
"This will give Texas
automobile owners a better
organized and easier to read
auto insurance policy,” said
William P. Daves, board
chairman.
The new policy form replaces
one that has been used since
1957. The document has been
trimmed from 9,590 words to
6,251 words. The new form must
be printed in at least nine-point
type, which is larger than most
of the type used in a newspaper
story or a news magazine.
Many insurance policies now
are in six-point type, about the
size of want ads.
“The proposed policy is
shorter, simpler, uses non-
technical language, has sec-
tions more logically arranged
and simplifies some
coverages,” said a board
spokesman.
The new policy will stop
calling accidents “oc-
currences” and just call them
“accidents.” It will say “you”
when it means the policyholder
and “we” when it means the
insurance company.
A committee consisting of
insurance men and board
staffers recommended the new
policy and started work in 1977,
but its project “has been sitting
on the shelf for almost two
years,” in the words of one
agent.
The new policy is modeled
after one that is used in more
than 30 other states.
Some changes in coverage
are included, but actuaries for
both the companies and the
insurance board say they will
not affect the overall price of
coverage.
The new form is expected to
result in greater use of
“combined single limits”
liability coverage because this
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is offered in the body of the
policy along with the "split
limits” coverage commonly
purchased now.
Policyholders will have a
choice but would have to pay a
little more for combined limits.
Virtually all drivers now buy
split limits liability,
customarily 95,000 for property
damage and $10,000 per person
for injuries or deaths, up to
$20,000 per accident.
Combined limits liability
would provide the same $35,000
total coverage but without
restriction as to how the money
is divided. If one person were
injured and his car totaled, for
example, the policy might pay
$25,000 worth of hospital bills
and replace his $10,000 car. *
The new policy will guarantee
Texans their liability insurance
would meet the requirements of
any state Where they have an
accident, even if the limits are
higher than those of Texas.
One thing the new policy will
not cover — even for an extra
premium — is so-called “Fuzz-
busters" that detect police
radar units.
“We think it is against public
policy to insure these devices
whose only use is to avoid ap-
prehension for speeding," said
Richard Geiger of the Texas
Automobile Insurance Service
Office.
Tom Baker of Houston,
president of the Independent
Insurance Agents of Texas,
praised the new policy.
‘ ‘We believe the proposed new
simplified policy will go a long
way toward improving in-
surance buyers’ understanding
of the protection they’re pur-
chasing,” Baker said.
Decisions face Demo execs
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -
Members of the State
Democratic Executive Com-
mittee meet today to make final
decisions on several contested
elections, and to talk about the
Aug. 11-14 national convention.
One of the election recounts to
be canvassed is the bitter
controversy between
Pleasanton real estate man Bob
Lunsford and Joe Moron of
Beeville for State Represen-
tative District 47.
State Democratic
headquarters said Monday that
unofficial results of the recount
showed Moron winning by a
total of 102 votes, 12 less than
the original SDEC canvass.
However, Lunsford said later
he would push his civil lawsuit
which claims unregistered
voters, out-of-district voters
and felons were allowed to cast
ballots in the June 7 runoff
election.
A speaker for the SDEC
meeting will be Rep. Buddy
Temple, D-Temple, the party’s
nominee for the Texas Railroad
Commission.
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HOUSTON (AP) - Police
have arrested two men they
describe as prime suspects in
the July 14 shooting deaths of
three bowling aUey employees,
an investigator said Tuesday.
“We feel confident we’ve got
them,” police Lt. H.W. Kersten
said.
Kersten said one of the men,
age 24, was arrested in League
City for unauthorized use of a
motor vehicle.
He said the man, following
the arrest, gave officers in-
formation about the shootings
at the bowling alley and told
them a second man was in-
volved.
Kersten said the second man,
age 19, was arrested near his
home in Friendswood. He said
neither offered any resistance,
and neither has been charged in
connection with the killings.
Tommy Temple, 17, Arden
Felsher, 17, and Stephen Sims,
25, were killed execution-style
at the bowling aUey where they
were standing guard. All three
had been shot in the head.
Gregory Gamer, 18, was also
shot in the head and lost the
sight in one eye. He is the only
survivor of the shooting.
The four were shot while
keeping an after-hours watch in
the bowling alley because the
place had been burglarized two
days earlier, police said.
Money was missing from a
cash register near where the
bodies were found.
Kersten said a composite
sketch of one of the suspects
"barely matches” one of the
men arrested.
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Scripture Reading for Today: Hebrews 11:1-6
WALKING GOD'S WAY
And Enoch walked with Cod, and he was not;
for Cod took him. Genesis 5 24
|^| OtE that our text doesn’t say God walked with Enoch.
| x| That was true, of course, but Enoch did not ask his
Heavenly Companion to go with him. Instead, he
was willing to go with God. We too must learn to move
as the Lord directs.
This is a hard lesson, because His ways are not our
ways (Isa. 55:8). When one is born again, he lends to be
immature at first. He doesn't know how to maintain a
close walk with the Lord. The joy and spiritual excitement
is sometimes more emotional than thoughtful. Not being
well-grounded in the Word, he may rush about aimlessly
in heated activity. Gradually he learns the value of a
steady, even pace, which is the mark of real progress and
the result of the Spirit's leading
Ivor Powell pointed this out very well in his book Bible
Pinnacles. He wrote, "We glibly say that a man must walk
before he can run. God describes progress differently. The
prophet Isaiah says of the redeemed, '... they shall mount
up with wings like eagles; they shall run, and not be
weary; and they shall walk, and not faint' (Isa. 40:31).
"When a person is first converted, the exuberance of
spiritual youth will be wings upon which he will be car-
ried to the skies. Then, as his experiences deepen, he
will constantly run, filling his life with service. Finally, he
will walk at God's side. Excessive enthusiasm will not
hasten his footsteps, nor will weariness slacken his pace."
May we ground ourselves in the truth, so that like
Enoch of old we may calmly yet resolutely keep in step
with God! —H.G.B.
Such be the trib'ite of my pilgrim journey,
When life’s last mile my feet have bravely trod,
When I have gone to all that there awaits me—
This simple epitaph: "He walked with God!" —Anon.
THOT: To enjoy our standing in Christ, we must learn the
secret of walking with Christ.
Henry Q. Botch) Copyright 1980, Radio Bible Class,
Grand Rapids, Michigan. Usad By Parmlsslon.
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