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Newspaper
Amarillo Globe
Location
Amarillo, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1932
Page
10
Amarillo insurer Guy Saunders explains auto liability and property damage rates reflect accident and claim records. He notes rising accidents, more cars per highway, higher claim costs, and larger jury verdicts which keep premiums elevated despite lower prices for some goods.
Nine candidates contest the Florida gubernatorial race with five residents of Jacksonville. The article urges program chairmen to use influence to curb excessive verdicts and push reforms for rate reduction.
Delegates from a dozen European nations meet in Paris to form an International Tourist Council aimed at reducing frontier restrictions for travelers. Countries like Britain Germany Czechoslovakia and Italy discuss easing limits on funds and simplifying customs for motorists to revive cross border tourism.
A city tour itinerary organized by Mr Burger will take insurance agents and their wives through local sights and the Palo Duro Canyon among other places of interest.
In 1898 at Waco city hall local agents from 14 Texas towns formed what became the Texas Association of Insurance Agents. It now has over 600 active members and eight charter members still on the rolls. Walter Fort of Waco was its first president, later succeeded by W L Stiles of San Antonio. The group was incorporated in 1925 as a non profit trade body with a Fort Worth office, and remains affiliated with the National Association of Insurance Agents.
The long running Amarillo firm started in 1889 as Martin Russell Agency and evolved through multiple owners. It later became Currie Company then Currie Spann Insurance, and finally Reagan Thomson Insurance Agency with offices in the Fisk Building.
The text notes that the organization operated as Ed Spann & Company with Charles Reagan joining as partner in 1928. It continued as the Spann Reagan Agency until 1931 when Ed Spann sold his stake to Henry Thomson and the firm altered ownership.
C. V. Terrell, chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission, accepted an invitation to address the Texas Truck Men's Association in Houston tonight. The note mentions Robert Calvin Hauffe, 6, of Pensacola, Florida, who has completed 24 violin lessons and can play any ordinary music set.
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