Insurance companies
nix merit rating proposal
Young male drivers would
still have the highest in
s u ra n c e rates of all groups if
insurance companies had
their way
Company spokesmen told
Oregon Insurance Com
missioner B ill F ritz in
Portland Wednesday they
are opposed to proposals to
e lim in a te age. sex and
marital status in figuring
auto insurance
F ritz is holding a series of
state hearings on the
possibility of implementing
merit rating, using a driver's
record as the basis for
determining rates.
Insurance representatives
unanimously m aintained
that young male drivers have
more accidents and are more
expensive to insure than
other drivers.
If merit rating was in ef
fect, adult drivers would pay
9 percent more and senior
citizens 15 percent more for
premiums than under the
present
system,
a
representative from Safeco
Insurance in Portland said.
But merit rating would
reduce premiums for young
drivers by 24 to 52 percent,
Blake Reed admitted.
He testified that the
present system is the best
way insurance companies
have
found
to
keep
premiums down for the
average driver.
Other agents used different
statistics that also said merit
rating
would
increase
premiums for most drivers.
But Ron Wyden, repre
sentative of Oregon Legal
Services for the Elderly,
produced a telegram from
the North Carolina deputy
insurance commissioner who
said rates have not gone up
since that state adopted
merit rating
College reps,
students meet
at MHCC
Students at Mt. Hood
Com m unity College w ill
meet with representatives of
fo u r-year
colleges and
universities during Transfer
Information Week, Nov. 13-
16.
Private and public schools
are involved in the program.
All sessions are scheduled in
the MHCC Town & Gown
Room unless otherwise in
dicated.
Oregon State University,
Linfield College and Western
States Chiropractic College
are scheduled Nov. 13. Lewis
& Clark College, University
of Portland, Warner Pacific |
College and the Air Force
ROTC are coming Nov. 14.
U niv e rs ity
of
Oregon,
Oregon College of Education
and Reed and Eastern
Oregon State colleges are
scheduled Nov. 15 and
Portland State, Pacific and
Southern Oregon State un
iversities are coming Nov.
16.
A ir Force ROTC rep
resentatives
a re
also
scheduled to talk to students
in
the
MHCC
Career
Resources Center on Mon
day,
Wednesday
and
T h u rs d a y .
Students are encouraged to
make appointments at the
MHCC Counseling Center,
but will be accepted on a
drop-in basis.
North Carolina instituted
an “ inexperienced operator”
surcharge for any driver
with less than two years’
experience. The deputy
commissioner
said the
system has not threatened
any insurance company’s
business
legislation should prohibit
basing rates on age, marital
status or sex Their plan
proposes
a
three-year
limitation on using accidents
or citations as a basis for
premiums and establishes a
discount for senior citizens
with good driving records.
They also suggest the
commissioner be allowed to
review each com pany’s
merit rating plan
The Oregon Student Public
Interest Research Group
proposed that merit rating
ESD sets course
in speed reading
The Clackamas County
Education Service District
will hold a speed reading
course which guarantees
that participants will be able
to read at least 1500 words a
minute or five times the
student’s present reading
rate.
The class w ill meet
Tuesday evenings from 7 to
9:30 p.m. beginning Nov. 14
in the boardroom of the ESD
offices in Marian Hall on the
Marylhurst Campus between
Lake Oswego and West Linn.
The classes will run eight
weeks from Nov. 14 to Jan 9.
For more inform ation
contact Rob Luchsinger at
C la c k a m a s
E d u c a tio n
Service District, 635-4341 or
221-0116.
Number Eleven in a Series
The Way
to Win. .
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Nov 9. 1 9 7* (Soc 2) SANDY (O ro.) ROST
MHCC picks blue ribbon committee
Sydney Sanders has been
elected chairman and David
King vice chairman of a
special blue ribbon com
mission on pre-professional
education at M t. Hood
Community College.
The purpose of the com
mission is to study in
structional efforts of the
college and to insure they are
in step with the needs of the
college d istrict and its
students
The
MHCC
Board
established the 22-member
group to exam ine the
philosophy, objectives, and
functions of the academic
divisions
having
pre
professional
or
lower
division collegiate transfer
programs A major objective
will be to determine the
programs' viability in terms
of contemporary needs, time
of
a v a ila b ility ,
scope,
completeness, structure,
support,
and
space
requirem ents,
students,
faculty,
and
availab le
finances
The pre-professions I or
lower
division
college
transfer programs allow the
MHCC student to complete
the first two years of college
within the district before
transferring to a four-year
institution for completion of
a bachelor’s degree.
About 45 ^percent of the
college's annual full-time
equivalent
enrollment
is
made up of students taking
classes in these programs,
according
to
statistics
published by the Oregon
C o m m u n ity
C o lle g e
Assembly.
Associate degrees in arts
and
letters,
business,
science, and social science
are offered in more than 65
pre-professional areas at
MHCC A minimum of 90
credit hours must be com
pleted
for
the
MHCC
associa te degree
However, a total of 108
approved credit hours can be
transferred from a com
munity college to a state
four year institution, leaving
only 78 credit hours of upper
HAW
M©@MU
By Mike Rothenberger
Copyright Dole Carnegie
& Associates, Inc. 1967
All Rights Reserved
A husky young man
climbed the muddy trail
up the mountain to a
lumber camp. When he
arrived at the camp he
went to the foreman and
applied for a job. The
foreman asked. “ Young
man, have you ever had
any experience cutting
trees?” The youth said,
“ No sir, I haven’t, but I
am very strong and
healthy and willing to
learn as fast as I can.”
The
forem an
was
favorably impressed with
the
young
m an’s
eagerness so he told him
to get a good night’s rest
and report for work early
the next morning. When
morning
came
the
foreman took the young
fellow out to the forest,
handed him a shiny new
axe and taught him how
to fell a tree. Soon the
foreman left and the
young
man
began
chopping down the trees
as fast as he could.
When evening came the
foreman asked the young
fellow how many trees he
had cut that day. With a
smile of pride on his face
the youth answered, “ I
cut 50 trees today.” The
foreman gave him a nod
of approval and went his
way. The next night he
was asked again for a
report on his work and he
was ashamed to tell the
foreman that he had cut
only 43 trees that day. On
the third evening he was
humiliated to report that
he had cut only 35 trees
The foreman could not
understand the decrease
in production so he began
to question the young
man He asked. “ Are you
working as fast as you did
on the first day?” The
youth
replied,
“ I ’m
working much faster.”
The foreman asked, “ Are
you swinging the axe as
hard?” “ Much harder,”
was the earnest reply.
Then the foreman said,
“ Let me see your axe.”
He carefully examined
the blade as he drew his
fingers across the cutting
edge and found that it was
very dull. He slowly
handed thft implement
back to the youth as he
asked. “ How many times
have you stopped ‘ to
sharpen your axe?” The
young
man
quickly
replied, “ Sir, I haven’t
had time to sharpen my
axe, I ’ve been too busy
cutting trees.”
Sometimes we allow the
same to happen to our
mental tools. We become
so busy with our daily
tasks that we forget the
vital necessity of keeping
our mental skills sharp (
through the process of
continuous learning. If we
fail to exercise our
m uscles
they
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