Inflation and Driving Costs Rising for Texas Autos
The Clifton Record notes Texas auto insurance rates will rise modestly in 1976 amid higher repair, new car, and medical costs. Profits fall behind price gains as the Consumer Price Index climbs and Houston area repairs show large cost jumps since 1971. State Board of Insurance weighs rate changes while driver accidents rise, with rising claim costs.
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Texas
Houston
State Board of Insurance
State Insurance Board
Joe Christie
Quergy Dumb
Irons
Texas Auto Insurance Rates Drift Lower in Early 1970s
The article notes a slow fall in Texas auto insurance rates during 1972 and 1973, with an average annual change under 2 percent since then. Experts warn of possible midyear rate adjustments unless driver experience shifts, as insurers balance future price expectations. It also highlights lower overtime premium pay in May 1978 compared with the previous year per the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Texas
Irons
Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics
U.S. Department of Labor
Stain Removal Hints From Texas Extension Service
Cleaning tips cover stain handling from blotting to laundering. Specialist Janine Carberry of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service advises testing cleaners on a fabric corner, avoiding chlorine bleach, blotting from edge to center, and working stains from the back. Specific methods address fruit gravy milk wine coffee tea candle wax and aged yellow stains with techniques like boiling water through fabric, enzyme presoaks, detergent pastes, dry cleaning solvents, oxygen bleach, and careful rinsing.
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S. Carberry
Texans Vacational Extension Service
Texas A&m University
Cooking tip and labor facts mix in a scattered note
A fragment covers a pecan heat test and quotes Frances Rea on nutrition education. It mentions metric sizing in fashion trade magazines and Claudia Mitzel on consumer education. It cites U S labor data on minimum wage coverage equal pay age and overtime trends, ending with a church invitation.
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Fane Conioh
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Presbyterian
Janine’ Carberry
Texas Agricultural “Extension Service
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College Station
Mttora
Frances Reasonover
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Claudia Mitzel
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Central Texas
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Drive-In Grocery
S. Hwy
Clifton Chamber OF Commerce
Floyd Vickery
Calvin Rueter
Lee Sanders
Valley Mills
Allhey
Aars & Nelson Insurance Bell
Clifton Food Market
Bryn’s
Exxon Service Station
Canuteson-Moody Real Estate
Central Texas Lumber Co
Clifton Electric & Ref. Co
Clifton Record Gibson Discount Center
Winns Stores Inc
Clifton Automotive
Tire Co
Bertelsen’s
Waco Savings & Loan Assoc
Turner Auto & Welding Service
Powell Supply Co
T&p Drive-in
Clifton Chamber & Commerce
N. Hwy
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