(El Paso Times (TX) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Dec. 27--EL PASO -- Gerald Rubin is not ready to tip his hand on whether his company will extend its sponsorship of the Brut Sun Bowl game.
Helen of Troy has been the game's title sponsor for six years at an annual cost of about $1 million, which includes paying for the bowl's halftime show, said Rubin, the company's founder and CEO. The company's sponsorship contract with the Sun Bowl ends after Thursday's game.
"I don't know if we'll continue the sponsorship," Rubin said last week. "I'm sure there will be discussions after the game." The bowl has been named for Helen of Troy's Brut cologne the past four years. It was named for its Vitalis hair tonic for the first two years of the El Paso company's bowl sponsorship.
Bernie Olivas, Sun Bowl executive director, said, "It will be tough to find someone else" because of the recession. "If Gerry says no, we'll have to go looking. Sometimes, you get lucky. Some bowls have found a sponsor in two months, some in two years." The Sun Bowl, now in its 76th year, struggled to survive when it had no title sponsor in 1994 and 1995 after it lost its first title sponsor, insurance and financial services company John Hancock.
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No Auto Insurance in Quarter of Dallas Cars
According to Aldiatx, referring to Dallas Morning News one in four cars in Dallas County don't have auto insurance. The information, released by the Texas Department of Insurance, reads that this is the highest percentage in county's major urban centers with such a low car insurance rate.
The figures, obtained from the database of the insurance verification program TexasSure, also show that 4.1 million cars and pickup trucks - 22% of all state-level vehicles - lack a basic liability car insurance coverage and violate state law requiring insurance.
In Dallas County, 26% of all cars in circulation, or about 482,000 cars and pickups, are not insured. In Tarrant County, 21% are without auto insurance. The numbers are also high in other counties: 15.1% in Collin, Rockwall and Denton at 17%. These figures do not include commercial vehicles. This is a segment that TexasSure is not encompassing yet.
The South Texas counties registered the highest rates of lack of car insurance. For example, in Cameron County, east of Austin, nearly 38% of cars are without auto insurance.
The Insurance Department did not analyze the causes of high averages in Dallas and other counties.
The authorities are now seeking to clarify why these many cars are without insurance. The goal is to explain the car owners to make the correct choices.
Currently the driver who are without insurance are fined in the amount of $ 350 for the first offense and up to $ 1,000 for the second. People who accumulate multiple offenses and don't take any action may be arrested.
To combat the problem of not having car insurance locally, several cities, some in Northern Texas, have implemented programs to penalize uninsured drivers by towing their cars. Among them are Arlington, Dallas, DeSoto, Garland, Irving and Mesquite.
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The figures, obtained from the database of the insurance verification program TexasSure, also show that 4.1 million cars and pickup trucks - 22% of all state-level vehicles - lack a basic liability car insurance coverage and violate state law requiring insurance.
In Dallas County, 26% of all cars in circulation, or about 482,000 cars and pickups, are not insured. In Tarrant County, 21% are without auto insurance. The numbers are also high in other counties: 15.1% in Collin, Rockwall and Denton at 17%. These figures do not include commercial vehicles. This is a segment that TexasSure is not encompassing yet.
The South Texas counties registered the highest rates of lack of car insurance. For example, in Cameron County, east of Austin, nearly 38% of cars are without auto insurance.
The Insurance Department did not analyze the causes of high averages in Dallas and other counties.
The authorities are now seeking to clarify why these many cars are without insurance. The goal is to explain the car owners to make the correct choices.
Currently the driver who are without insurance are fined in the amount of $ 350 for the first offense and up to $ 1,000 for the second. People who accumulate multiple offenses and don't take any action may be arrested.
To combat the problem of not having car insurance locally, several cities, some in Northern Texas, have implemented programs to penalize uninsured drivers by towing their cars. Among them are Arlington, Dallas, DeSoto, Garland, Irving and Mesquite.
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