The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1961 Page: 2 of 16
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THE CANADIAN RECORD, Canadian. Hemphill County, Texas
THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1961
The safe driving plan
A highly successful flop
MOTHING, apparently, succeeds in govern-
ment life failure. Texas auto insurance
rate regulations are an excellent example.
The State Insurance Board this week ap-
proved another rate hike in automobile insur-
ance which will cost Texas drivers about $30
million a year more than they've been pay-
ing. The increase averages 15 per cent.
The new rates go into effect August 1.
At the game time, the Insurance Board indi-
cated that it will continue its "safe driving
plan" which allows up to 20 per cent discounts
for accident and violation-free drivers ... a
plan which obviously isn't working when in-
creasing losses make necessary rate hikes
which will wipe out the discount.
The increase, said the board, was made no-
cessary by a drop of more than $28 millions in
auto insurance premiums last year.
It might occur to the board to take a long
hard look at this drop in premiums. It's just
possible that they might find that boosting
insurance rates have priced many drivers right
out of the auto insurance market. . . and that
the drivérs who are being priced-out are those
who file the fewest claims or no claims at all.
The accident-prone auto owner who collects
regularly on his auto insurance isn't going to
drop his policies even if the rates are doubled
. . . because he's still taking out a lot moro
than he's putting in. But the average John Q.
Citizen who obeys the law, drives carefully
and courteously, and rarely has to file an ae.
cident claim can't afford the increasing prices
and is tired of footing the bill for the other
follow. So his natural reaction has been to re-
duce his insurance protection to a bare mini-
mum ... or to do without it entirely.
The answer, it seems to us non-exports,
might be to establish auto insurance rates
based on individual driving experience rec-
ords. This is the policy in many states, and
there are some companies, at least, who would
like to write this type of "preferred risk" pol-
icy in Texas if they wore permitted to do so.
This won't be popular
(From the Ochiltree County Herald)
■THERE is a story in this issue of the Herald
dealing with the efforts of Mrs. Woods
King to circulate a petition calling for the ro-
pealing of a section of the Texas constitution
which now exempts tax levies upon wheat,
THE CANADIAN RECORD
Canadian (Hemphill County) Texas
BEN EZZELL ... ... Editor
NANCY EZZELL . . Editor of Woman's Pages
TED ROGERS Forana n
Entered as second class matter December 20,
1945, at the Postoffice at Canadian, Texas,
under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published each
Thursday afternoon at. Canadian, Texas, by
Ben R. and Nancy M. Ezzell.
corn, cotton, etc., as long as these products
are owned by the producer.
This applies to stored grain or farm products
whether stored on the farm nr in a commer-
cial warehouse or elevator, as long as owner-
ship remains with the producer.
This little-known section of the constitution
was unearthed by Mr. and Mrs. King who fell
to wondering some time- ago why it is that
stored grain escapes the tax assessor's pen,
while other assets such as livestock, business
merchandise, petroleum products, etc., are put
on the tax roll.
Certainly no nne who produces wheat, for
example, is likely to promote a change in the
method of taxation which would put that
product on the tax roll and we ran see that
Mrs. King's project is likely to be viewed with
a jaundiced eye in these parts.
And for that reason, if for no other, we ap-
plaud her action. It takes courage to take the
stop sho is taking, and we admire hor.
It it is fair to pay taxes on cattle in the
field and hats on shelves, it may bo fair to
pay taxes on grain in the bin. That's the way
Mrs. King looks at it.
This may not be popular, but no one can
deny thai it is fair.
Yankees like own image
(From the Floyd County Hesperian)
UTE WERE delighted last week to read a brief
™ interview by Senator Fulbright of Arkan-
sas. The senator is a member of the senate's
Foreign Relstions Committee. He is in the
know on most of the things that, go on. The
Senator is a smart booger. He is the type of
a man the nation has needed for president
since the end of the Roosevelt, second term.
The senator was discussing the money we
have spent in all parts of the globe, trying to
make people over.
Americans have worked on the theory, he
pointed out, that the populations of the world
need to be made over into the ways of an
American, He rubbed it in ever so neatly that
the people of the world might not exactly
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fancy being made over. They had ar soon,
even prefer, to bo just themselves.
The senator pricked there the vanity of a
wide segment of the people on the Amoric.m
scene—we'd say roughly 80 per cent, of those
who live in an area bounded on the northeast
by approximateley Massachusetts, on the west
by Illinois and on the south by the Ohio River.
Well pleased with themselves, they assume
that all peoples should be like them, in fact
should desire to be like them. They expend
much time and money trying to make others
be like them. They are bewildered at times by
their failures.
The senator should not expect them lo un-
derstand his gentle chiding. In love with the
image they have of themselves they have a
blind spot for any other.
Do you ever get a feeling, when you read the headlines or
listen to a newscast these days, that somebody has been
monkeying with the calendar and turned it back twenty years?
Or maybe twenty-one?
The names have been changed . . . but a lot of the faces
look pretty much the same. President Kennedy, we see by the
headlines, is thinking about calling up the National Guard.
President Roosevelt had already done it by this time in '41.
Oh well, we've just about had time enough to raise a new
crop of guardsmen. The old ones can't go . . . they're too busy
trying to make enough money to pay the bills they ran up
last time.
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Anyway we won't have to go through that foolishness with
the goldfish bowl and the numbers game again. Our eighteen*
year-olds nowadays have already got their numbers . . . and
ours too, probably.
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Baseball fans . . . and particularly baseball sportswriters
. . . who like to pick pennant winners early using the old
rule-of-thumb that "the team that holds the league lead on
the Fourth of July will play in the World Series in October"
found their crystal balls a little clouded this year, as far as
the American League is concerned, anyway.
Reason is that the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers
were both out in front on July 4 . . . which one you pick de-
pends on the time of day you want to do the picking. Yankees
and Tigers played a double-header on the holiday. The Yankees
won the first game to take the lead away from Detroit, but
the Tigers won the second and took it right back!
Picking a winner in Canadian's Little League is a lot. simpler.
The Cardinals are 'way out in front, and while they haven't,
got the title wrapped up yet, they're making a great bid for
their first Little League championship after a long dry spell.
Last year's champs, the Yankees, are still in catch-up range,
but. would have to have some help from other teams to nose
out the high-flying Cardinals.
The best games of the season in Little League play have
been between these two teams, however . . . and last Friday
night's 3-2 duel was a real thriller all the way,
* * * *
Baseball fans who stayed around after the Little League
frame Friday night saw some classy softball action at. Rotan'
Park as well . . . between the Canadian and Miami All-Stars.
Jerry "Peanuts" role pitched the Canadian team to a 5-to-4
victory in a fine ball game.
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The U. S. Government ought to provide a special medal for
cigarette smokers. They earn it!
This was brought home to us the other day when we noted
an advertisement in the VFW Magazine for tax-free cigarettes
to be sent to veterans hospitals or to troops in Korea. With the
trxes lopped off, you can buy any of several popular brands of
cigarettes, King Size or regular, at less than a dime a pack.
The going rate over the counter last time we bought any. was
about 30 cents ... and no retailer is getting rich selling
cigarettes.
If the national debt is ever paid, if 11 be the smokers who
burned the mortgage I They should have a medal . . . like,
maybe, the Purple Heart I
•IIE LONGEST two weeks of the year are
when the other guy is gone on a vacation.
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 13, 1961, newspaper, July 13, 1961; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth184065/m1/2/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hemphill County Library.