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■ The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Georgia, March 1, 1973
Johnnie Caldwell Submits
ATLANTA (PRN)
Comptroller General Johnnie
L. Caldwell presented the
House of Representatives
Insurance Committee with his
proposed no-fault plan, which
provides for a mandatory
reduction in automobile
insurance rates.
Designed and written by
Caldwell and his staff, the
no-fault plan was the result of
a two year study by the
Georgia Insurance
Department.
“For some time now, my
staff and I have been working
on a proposed draft of a
no-fault automobile insurance
bill which we felt should
contain certain basic
provisions for the protection
of the public,” Caldwell said.
“We also wanted to include
those provisions that would be
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No-Fault Insurance Plan
necessary if the plan were to
be workable in Georgia and
would hopefully reduce the
cost of automobile insurance.”
The plan requires all
automobile insurance
companies writing no-fault
insurance to reduce the rates
which were in effect
December 1, 1972, by 15% of
the bodily injury coverage
required under basic no-fault
coverage.
Medical payments coverage
and uninsured motorists
coverage rates would have to
be reduced by at least 50%.
No other plan being
considered by the General
Assembly has a mandatory
rate reduction provision.
“On October 16, 1972, I
notified all property and
casualty insurers licensed in
Georgia to advise me promptly
JOHNNIE CALDWELL
what plans, if any, were
contemplated by each
company with respect to
sincere rate modifications for
personal life insurance, which
includes automobile
insurance,” Caldwell
explained.
“The results have been most
gratifying. Indications are that
the loss experience of
automobile insurers has
improved in the past year,
especially in the area of bodily
injury insurance. I am sure this
accounts in large measure for
the rate reductions filed in the
last several months, or which
other insurers have indicated
will be filed in the near future.
“I am somewhat concerned,
however, that the uncertainty
of the status of no-fault in this
state may cause some insurers
to be reluctant to file rate
reductions during this period
of improved experience when
it appears that rate should be
voluntarily reduced under the
Open Competition Rating Law
in effect in Georgia.”
Caldwell went on to explain
that the mandatory rate
reduction provision in his plan
allows insurers who filed rate
reductions after December 1,
1972, to take credit for those
reductions.
“I hope this will encourage
Regents Study Four-year
College In Mid-Georgia
ATLANTA (PRN)
Following a personal appeal
by Gov. Jimmy Carter and
Middle Georgia legislators, the
University System Board of
Regents has agreed to study if
a four-year college should be
located in the central part of
the state.
The Regents during their
February meeting also
approved a site for a new
junior college at Waycross and
heard that the Atlanta Board
of Education had approved
preliminary plans for a new
junior college in South
Atlanta.
Governors rarely appear
before the Board of Regents,
but Gov. Carter said he was
fulfilling a campaign pledge
that he would try to get
Middle Georgia at Cochran, a
junior college, upgraded to a
four-year, degree-granting
the prompt filing of rate
reductions which are now due
under the spirit of the Open
Competition Rating Law”
Caldwell added.
The plan also provides for
basic no-fault benefits of up to
SSOOO per person per
accident, with no limit on the
number of people who can
recover in any one accident.
This differs from other plans
before the General Assembly
which only allow a maximum
of $25,000 to be paid for any
one accident, no matter how
many people are injured.
Work loss or survivors
benefits would be available for
up to S2OO per week, and
funeral and burial expenses
would be covered up to
SI,OOO.
Another feature of
Caldwell’s plan is the
establishment of an Assigned
Claims Plan.
“Under this plan,” Caldwell
said, “all insurers who provide
basic no-fault benefits in this
state will be required to
maintain a program so that
anyone who suffers economic
loss as a result of any bodily
injury sustained in an
automobile accident can
obtain basic no-fault benefits.
The assigned claims plan
would be used if basic no-fault
benefits are not applicable or
the insurer is financially
unable to pay the full amount
provided for by the plan.”
“My sole purpose in taking
this ac‘ c -1 is to fulfil' ay duty
to the citizens of ”1$ state
who elected me to regulate
their insurance affairs,”
Caldwell concluded. “I feel
that any plan that is
considered seriously by the
General Assembly should not
be slanted to benefit the
insurers. The public interest
should be paramount and
properly safeguarded in the
preparation of such
legislation.”
Comptroller General
Johnnie L. Caldwell also serves
as state insurance
commissioner.
institution.
“As director of the budget,
I will give favorable
consideration to making the
funds available to make the
necessary changes,” Carter
said.
The governor and Middle
Georgia legislators said many
students from that area
wanted to continue their
education after completing
junior college, but couldn’t
afford it unless they could
commute to a four-year
college.
They virtually rejected
upgrading Macon Junior
College to a four-year
institution because Mercer
University and Wesleyan
College, two private
institutions, are located there.
Regent Roy Hanis of
Augusta contended, however,
that Macon would have to be
considered eventually for a
senior college because of
population, and successfully
moved that the whole Middle
Georgia area be studied for a
site. Chairman Lee Burge of
Atlanta will appoint the study
committee.
The Regents approved a
150-acre tract on Francis
Street at Waycross as the site
for a new junior college which
will be built if Ware County
voters approve issuance of
bonds to build the facility.
The University System of
Georgia will finance the
facility’s operation and further
improvements after the local
efforts of supplying the land
and money for the initial
buildings are completed.
This same arrangement will
be in effect for the Atlanta
Junior College, which will be
located near the Atlanta
Vocational-Technical School
off the South Expressway.
The Atlanta Board of
Education is now acquiring
the land and will construct the
initial building costing about
$2 million. The Regents will
pay further costs after the
facility opens about
September 1974.
In other action, the
Regents:
-- Appointed Dr. Harold
Davis as chairman of Georgia
State University’s Journalism
Department. He currently is a
journalism professor and vice
president for institutional
relations.
A diminutive Dubliner competes in a Leprechaun Contest, a
special event of Dublin’s annual St. Patrick's Festival. (PRN)
TOUR
GEORGIA
DUBLIN (PRN) - Should
you receive a letter this month
from a friend in Dublin, you’ll
know it by the wearin’ of the
green.
In honor of Dublin’s eighth
annual St. Patrick’s Festival —
March 11 through 17 — letters
postmarked in this Georgia
city will bear a special stamp
of kelly green.
Dedicated Dubliners begin
by painting their downtown
fireplugs and parking meters a
bright green. Then comes a
wide green stripe right down
the middle of the main street.
Local restaurants begin serving
up Old Country dishes, and
high school bands break out
with traditional marches and
jigs.
Local members of the Order
of the Shillelagh blossom forth
in green blazers, carrying the
shillelagh that identifies their
order. Members of the Order
of the Blarney Stone wear
green stone pendants.
Scheduled for the
week-long event are golf,
bowling and billiards
tournaments; contests for
children; and the St. Patrick’s
Ball, sponsored by the city’s
two Irish societies. Beauties
from around the state will
compete for the title of
Focus on Fun
No matter where you go. even if it’s for a dip in a swimming pool,
vou can take your camera with you.
Picture The Land Os The Turtles
Winter in the Caribbean? But
definitely. If it’s quiet you're af
ter and miles of radiant beaches,
you might stop at Grand Cay
man. a sun-drenched isle an
hour's flight due south of Miami.
It's a picture paradise.
They call Grand Cayman "the
undiscovered island.'' but Co
lumbus found it in 1503 and
called it "Las Tortugas" for its
turtles. The island's name was
later changed, but the turtles
are still there —on a turtle farm.
Where else? It's a natural stop
ping place on your island photo
tour.
From a patio fragrant with
bougainvillea, you can picture
the early surf as it splashes the
shore, or picture the spray-filled
air from one of Cayman's water
spouts. You can catch the fisher
men at Spanish Bay as they haul
in their catch, or snap a saffron
sunset like no other.
To capture it all practically
with the snap of a shutter, there's
the new Kodak pocket Insta
matic 60 camera, one of five
palm-sized models that give you
Festival Queen, and wee folk
will vie for the name of Little
Mr. and Miss Dublin. The big
parade, set for March 17,
promises to be the most
ambitious in the city’s history,
with floats, bands, and
marching units from
throughout Georgia
participating.
Dublin’s Old Country
affinity dates back to
December 9, 1812, when
Jonathan Sawyer, an Irish
settler in Georgia, decided to
name his New World village
after his wife’s hometown —
Dublin, Ireland. Transplanted
Irishmen flock to the city
with the nostalgic name in
Georgia’s gently rolling
countryside.
Dublin is located 150 miles
southeast of Atlanta on U.S.
Highway 441 near Interstate
16.
Additional information on
the Dublin festival may be
obtained by writing the
Chamber of Commerce, 400
Bellevue, Dublin 31021.
And for a calendar listing of
statewide spring events, write:
Department of Community
Development, Tourist
Division, P.O. Box 38097,
Atlanta, Georgia 30334.
Lynda Vaughn
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shots. The cameras go where
you go to get pictures you used
to miss.
Cayman is a reef-encircled
isle, and beneath its emerald
waters is a world of staghorn
coral, submarine caverns and
luminous angel fish. Its reefs are
dotted with the wreckage of a
hundred bullion ships. The wa
ter inside its coral barrier is al
ways calm, incredibly clear,
perfect for underwater photog
raphy.
If you've never dived before,
you can learn at the island's new
Holiday Inn in a pool rigged
with underwater speakers. An
instructor will tell you exactly
what to do while you're down
under. The new Holiday Inn also
offers glass bottom boats, a
choice of outdoor water sports
and an unspoiled beach seven
miles long. You can learn more
about the inn by a call to your
local Holiday Inn.
With a watertight housing.you
can take your camera down un
der Cayman. You should: it's
another world.
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