Page 8 THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1974
Lieutenant governor race|1919 IdSt Ch3llGnC|GCl r3C(
The following information was pro
vided by the League of Women
Voters.
BILL HOBBY, Austin
Age 42 Democrat
1. Please describe your training
and experience that contribute to
your qualifications for this office.
BA, Rice University, 1953; three
years Naval Intelligence; 1959, Par-
limehtarian, Texas Senate; Chari-
man. Senate Interim Committee on
Welfare Reform, 1970; Former
Member, Board of Regents, Uni
versity of Houston, Presidential
Task Force on Suburban Problems,
the National Citizens Advisory
Committee on Vocational Rehabili
tation, Texas Air Control Board;
President, the Houston Post; cur
rently, Chairman, Governor’s
Energy Advisory Council, National
Conference of Lieutenant Gover
nors’ Committee on Energy and
Natural Resources.
2. What issues prompted you to
run for this office this year? Please
list in order of priority.
I feel the issues of greatest prior
ity to the State of Texas and her
people are Education, particularly
financing of public school educa
tion; Energy, emphasizing the steps
Texas can take; Fiscal Responsibil
ity, including budgeting processes
and tightened spending; and Gov
ernmental Responsiveness.
3. Do you support a comprehen
sive land use program for Texas? If
initiated, how should it be im
plemented?
It is apparent that Texas, not un
like the other states in this Union,
must take greater care in its use of
its precious land resources. But, at
the same time, we must continue to
protect the private rights which are
a part of each citizen’s birthright.
It is becoming increasingly obvi
ous that the Federal Government,
in the continued absence of action
taken by the states, will move into
the area of land use. In the Regular
Session of the 63rd Legislature,
Texas made a substantial beginning
on a land use program for the state
with the enactment of a coastal zone
management program. We need to
continue progress in this area along
the lines proposed in SB 645, laying
the foundation for a comprehensive
state plan. Such action on our part
would prevent our being pre
empted by the Federal Govern
ment and would, at the very least,
prepare us for a proper response
should such a federal action be im
plemented.
★★★
GAYLORD MARCHALL, Dallas
Age 39 Republican
1. Please describe your training
and experience that contribute to
your qualifications for this office.
My formal education at St. Mary’s
University, San Antonio, Texas.
Experience as a teacher in industrial
education for three years. Four
years in the United States Air
Force. Two years of this time as an
instructor in the Air Training Com
mand gave me the ability to com
municate my thoughts.
Experience as Director of Emp
loyment of Bran iff Airways gives me
the ability to select the proper peo
ple to perform the staff duties of the
position. My present position as a
commodities futures broker gives
me a clear understanding of the
economic picture of the state.
2. What issues prompted you to
run for this office this year?
The lack of leadership in the Se
nate by the present Lt. Governor,
especially during the ethics reform
debate caused me to offer myself as
a positive alternative. I do not feel
that Texans want four more years of
the same.
3. Do you support a comprehen
sive land use program for Texas? If
initiated, how should it be im
plemented?
A comprehensive land use prog
ram is needed so long as it is de
signed in a way not to upset the
balance of nature, and is in accor
dance with the state ecological stan
dards.
★ ★★
DAN FEIN, Houston
Age 29 Socialist Workers
1. Please describe your training
and experience that contribute to
your qualifications for this office.
Teacher at Jones High School in
Houston, member of Representa
tive Assembly of Houston Teachers
Texas A&M University
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2. What issues prompted you to
run for this office this year? Please
list in order or priority.
Wage controls, the meat and fuel
shortages, the Watergate scandals
and runaway inflation have proven
to the American people that the
government of the Republicans and
Democrats will not carry out prog
rams in the interests of the working
people.
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present ah alternative to the bank
rupt policies of the two capitalist
parties who join hands with the
monopolies in the wholesale rob
bery of the working people ofTexas.
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that could be organized in behalf of
working people and their allies in
the Black and Chicano communities
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ing votes for the parties responsible
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dard of living, I believe the tradq
unions should organize a labor party
that could fight for the interests of
working women and men.
I am for: automatic raises in wages
with each rise in the cost of living,
social security, welfare and unemp
loyment benefits at union wages and
opening the books of employers
who. claim they cannot pay cost-of-
living wage increases. For a shorter
work week with no cut in pay, prefe
rential hiring of Blacks, Chicanos
and women and an end to discrimi
nation in hiring based on language,
race, sex or citizenship. I support
the unconditional right of working
people including teachers and other
public employees to strike for better
working conditions and higher pay
to keep up with inflation. For a mas
sive program of public works to pro
vide low-cost quality housing, more
hospitals, schools, childcare centers
and mass transportation systems.
For support to the Farmworkers
Union, AFL-CIO. For a workers’
government and a socialist America.
3. Do you support a comprehen
sive land use program for Texas? If
initiated, how should it be im
plemented?
I would support a comprehensive
land use program for Texas that was
drafted, organized and im
plemented by the working people of
this state, not by the monopolies
whose aim is to continue the rape of
the land for their Own profits. Such a
program would provide for 100% tax
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/ By GERALD OLIVIER
Staff Writer
District Court Judge Bill Davis
will be running for re-election un
opposed this year, continuing a
tradition for the district judgeship
that began in 1919.
The last candidate for the position
to have competition was Davis’
father, who ran in 1919.
Davis was appointed to the
judgeship in 1967 when it became
vacant following the appointment of
the then District Judge to an appe
als court in Houston. Davis said he
accepted the position because his
father had once held it.
Davis said the reason lawyers
don’t seek the office of district judge
in greater numbers is basically
monetary. The job pays less than a
lawyer can make in private practice,
he contends. The annual salary is
$29,OCX).
The expense and time involved in
running for office is the other major
deterrent, Davis said. “Running for
elective office is hard work,’’ said
Davis.
Once the election is over the
work doesn’t stop, it just started.
Davis’ calendar is full through
Christmas, and entries have been
made as far ahead as April of next
year.
The bulk of time spent by the
court is on jury cases, Davis said.
Although divorce cases are the most
numerous item filed with the court,
Davis said most are not contested
and take up little time.
The District Court has original
jurisdiction in all felony cases. Di
vorces, slander or defamation of
character suits and all civil suits over
$1,000 come before the court. Ap
peals of decisions made by the
County Commissioners Court may
be brought to the District Court.
Jury trials are always set to begin
on Mondays and often take the bet
ter part of the week, Davis said.
When he isn’t at the courthouse,
Davis keeps busy with the Bryan
City Mission and the Brazos Valley
Development Council (BVDC).
These two interests are taking much
of Davis time and he said both will
be cut back during the next year.
Davis said he will not run tor
another term as chairman of the Ex
ecutive Committee of the Board of
Directors of the BVDC. “It’s time
someone else had the job, Davis
said.
Davis said he does not plan to
repeat as chairman of the board at
the city mission. It just takes too
much time.
Davis hopes to continue as Dis
trict Judge at least for another five
years. “After 12 years in office I’m
eligible for the judge’s retirement
program, said Davis.
As for further political aspira
tions, Davis said he likes Bryan and
has no plans to leave. T was
here and I 11 die here," said Dr
BILL DAVIS
Vance supports plea bargaining
By ROSE MARY TRAVERSO
Staff Writer
County Judge William R. Vance
is running unopposed for re-
election Tuesday although a
number of potentially volatile issues
have come before his office.
These issues include plea bar
gaining, his promotion of the Willie
Nelson festival and the investigation
of bail bond practices by the Grand
Jury.
“Plea bargaining is with us. It is
sanctioned by the Supreme Court
and will be with us regardless of how
crowded the courts are,” said
Vance.
Plea bargaining is a procedure by
which a defendant agrees to a lesser
offense; in return, the prosecutor
drops a more serious charge. The
individual who was fined for an in
spection sticker might have been
charged originally with drunken
driving, but paid a higher fine so
that the lesser charge would be on
his record. Critics question the
ethical implications of allowing a
person to buy a clean record.
The presiding judge decides
whether or not to accept the
prosecuter’s recommendations and
will usually agree to the bargain if
there is a question about the State’s
ability to prove the original charge,
Vance said.
This summer Vance, a key prom
oter of the Fourth of July Willie
Nelson festival, was in the position
of deciding the fate of 80 of his
former customers who were
charged with drug possession and
drunken driving during the festival.
All of the cases were "disposed of
without trial,” Vance said. “Most of
them just flat pleaded guilty, the
rest came to me as guilty pleas re
sulting from plea bargaining, if you
want to call it that.”
The Texas Constitution provides
for only three cases in which a judge
is disqualified for conflict of in
terest. These are when financial in
terests are concerned, when the
judge was formerly a lawyer in the
case and when the judge is related
to one of the parties.
“I did make it known that if the
State or the defendant in any case
wanted to make objections, I would
consider them on a case by case
basis,” Vance said.
Agreeing with the recent Grand
Jury recommendation on hailbond
practices in the county, Vance is in
favor of instituting a Personal Bond
Office. “I’m in favor of it if we can do
it economically. I think that most
people who reside locally are good
risks for recognizance bonds, he
said.
Vance said he is in favor of
abolishing the position of school
superintendent and that this can be
done by legislative action or a
county-wide vote. “I don’t believe
the duties justify the office, he
said. The superintendent, J. B.
BILL VANCE
Streetman, directs adult education
classes for the county.
Vance receives $13,500 a year for
the part-time job of county judge
which includes the duties of presid
ing officer of the county commis
sioners court, chairman of the
Brazos County Health Board, head
of county civil defense and head of
the county budget.
Among his other concerns, Vance
owns local real estate including the
Casa Linda Apartments, Briar Oaks
Townhouses and Normandy Manor
Apartments. He also manages the
Briar Grove Apartments which are
owned by his brother and sfe
Vance commented that his realt
tate holdings “can be a lot
headaches.”
Time was citecLas a facton
Vance’s resignation as legal cc®
for the Brazos Valle) Develop®
Council (BVDC) which will beoa
effective Dec. 31. "I receivei
compensation and I feel likei
council needs someone who call
vote more time to the job,’ heal
Vance will retain his members!
on the hoard of directors o(i
BVDC and its executivecointnite
Some of the programs Vances
he has initiated through recu
mendations to the commission!!
court are the beginnings of a
parks system, a retirementp
county employes, the first saoib
landfill in a rural area, a compit
taxroll and voter registration li
the installment of electronic voti
machines and the landscapingofl
courthouse square.
Vance received a bachelordegn
in economics from A&M in 1961
two years later graduated fromll
University of Texas Law School
worked three years as assislt
county attorney until Septemli I
1967 when he was elected com
judge.
His career plans for the fa
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