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Insurance bill on Senate floor
Thursday. June 5. 1975
by Richard Cowperthwait
Staff Writer
RALEIGH Action was expected
Wednesday in the Senate on a bill that would
abolish age and sex criteria in setting
automobile insurance rates. Most observers
expected Senate approval of the bill.
Currently, male drivers under 25,
regardless of their driving records, pay the
highest insurance rates.
The bill, passed in the House by a 2-1
margin, and in the Senate Finance
Committee last week, has been strongly
pushed by state Insurance Commissioner
John Ingram, who has made the bill the
cornerstone of his legislative program.
Ingram has actively lobbied recently in the
Assembly for the bill which is strongly
opposed by the insurance industry.
After the House passed the bill, Ingram
wrote letters to the editors of newspapers in
the legislators' home districts praising those
legislators who voted for the bill.
Under the bill, different use categories
would be established for drivers and rates
A $2,000 mistake
Jennie Lund thought she was getting
pennies from heaven last week when she got
a tuition refund of over $2,000. They turned
out to be bad pennies.
Thursday the University made her give it
back. The refund was due to a typographical
error.
The $2,000-typo was made on a letter
which changed her residency from out-of-state
to in-state for tuition purposes. The
letter stated that the change was effective for
the summer of 1974 but should have read
1975, making the change in her residency
seem retroactive.
Lund said she called the Cashier's Office
when she saw the error in the letter, but they
told her there was no mistake since their
copy of the letter had the same date.
The Admissions Office discovered the
error later when someone cleaned out a file,
Lund said.
"Some guy behind me in line said, 'Take it
(the money) they'll change their minds when
1 first got the refund," Lund said.
Unfortunately for her, the guy was right.
Campus Calendar
Runners, come do your workout with us Sunday and or
Wednesday nights at 7 p.m. Meet at Fetzer Field Track. No racing
experience necessary. Community Runners.
1 he Campus Governing Council will meet Tuesday. June 10 at 6
p.m. in the Union.
Joel R. Williamson of the History Department will speak at K
p.m. June 12 at the weekly meeting of the Dialectic and
Philanthropic Literary Societies. 300 New West. His subject is
"WJ. Cash and the Two Minds of the South".
Veterans! Interested in summer fun and working for benefits?
Vets Club meeting. 7 p.m. Tuesday. June 10 in Room 217 of the
Union.
ECOS. INC. needs the volunteer help of anyone who could cut
clippings concerning environmental issues from several local
newspapers. Interested people should contact ECUS at its office in
Suite A of the Union. Please leave a note.
Any female student who will be enrolled in UNC this fall is
eligible to sign up for sorority rush. Sign up Monday. 3-4 p.m.. in
the Pan Hellenic Office. Room 262-B of the Union.
The Morehead Planetarium's current program. "Unearthly
Life", will be shown every evening at 8 p.m.. and at the following
weekend afternoon times: 1 1 a.m.. I p.m. and 3 p.m. Saturday. and
2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Sunday. Admission prices: SI. SO Adult. SI. 00
Student. 75c Child.
The Morehead Planetarium's North Art Gallery is featuring an
art exhibit bv Susan Pollard.
Interested in the
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includes E.S.P., Poltergeist
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A Women's Outdoor Cultural Festival will take place I rum 10
p.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday. June 7. at Umstead Park in Chapel Hill
(rain date June 8th). Activities will include drama, music, poetry,
dance, crafts and much more.
the Summer Media Board will meet Monday at 3 p.m. in the
Union.
would be based solely on a driver's use
category and his driving record. Drivers with '
violations on their record would have to pay
a surcharge on their premiums.
In reporting the bill favorably, the Senate
Insurance Committee added two
amendments which were not included in the
House-passed bill. The first would
automatically repeal the bill after a two-year
trial necessitating review by the 1977
legislature.
The other amendment would permit the
insurance rating bureau to set rates with the
insurance commissioner's approval. The
House-passed version gave the
commissioner absolute control over rates.
Ingram said Tuesday the two amendments
were not necessary. "I'm hopeful the full
Senate will do something to strike them from
the bill."
Sen. George Marion Jr., D-Surry, said
Tuesday efforts would be made on the
Senate floor to remove the two amendments
from the bill.
Marion, a supporter of the bill, said there
would be no problem passing the bill in the
Senate without the two amendments.
While the car insurance bill is headed for
enactment by the General Assembly,
another bill designed to promote land use
planning and restrict development in
western North Carolina appears to have no
chance of passage this session.
The Mountain Area Management Act
would affect over 20 western N.C. counties
and would require them to have land use
plans in accordance with state goals. The bill
would prohibit development in designated
"environmental concern" areas.
The bill is still locked in the Senate
Natural and Economic Resources
Committee and the House Water and Air
Resources Committee. According to several
legislative sources, neither committee will
report the bill.
These sources noted that while the bill
could be reported out of the Senate
committee and could possibly be passed by
the full Senate, it stands no chance of
passage in the House. Thus, the bill will be
withdrawn from the committees this session
and reactivated in the 1977 session when the
sources expect it to pass.
The bill is sponsored in the House by Rep.
Jack Stevens, D-Buncombe, and in the
Senate by Sen. Willis Whichard, D
Durham. Whichard was instrumental in
getting the General Assembly to pass the
landmark Coastal Area Management Act,
after which the mountain bill is patterned,
last session.
While some observers expected the
Mountain Area Management Act to have a
relatively easy time getting approval in wake
of the passage of the coastal bill, the sources
said they didn't expect passage of the bill this
session.
The bill has evoked intense opposition
from local governmental officials in western
N.C. as well as from that area's legislators.
One of the few western legislators who
supports the bill. Rep. Fred Dorsey, R
Henderson, said Tuesday, "If we don't pass
the bill, we'll leave a legacy of honky-tonk
development in the mountains."
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