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AUSTIN, Texas — Don Adams
jes not expect to make any friends
jt he intends to make sure the
overnor’s Office of Migrant Affairs
as he said, “shaken down” and
itraightened out."
Adams has posted armed guards at
e office entrance, changed all locks
the doors, ordered all phone calls
the agency routed through his
ersonal secretary, banned use of
panish in office conversations and
jt off all payments from the agen
ts budget.
“This is public money,” the former
last Texas legislator explained. “I’m
|ot going to turn loose of public
honey until I’m sure it’s a proper
ixpenditure.”
Gov. Dolph Briscoe named
dams to take over his migrant af-
irs office last week when the agen-
y’s executive director and another
|op two administrator were indicted
forgery by a Brownsville court of
nquiry.
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Adams, 39, joined Briscoe’s staff
Jan. 1. He resigned from the legisla
ture Dec. 31 to become the gover
nor’s chief legal counsel,
The former Jasper, Texas, senator
had acquired a reputation around the
Capitol as a strict administrator who
is not afraid to tackle the stickiest
political morass and refuses to bend
rules regardless of the circum
stances.
“He’s a real S.O.B.,” said one
political observer. “But he’s real up
front about it. If he’s going to do it to
you, he’ll tell you to your face.”
Adams headed the Senate Admin
istration Committee when longtime
Senate Secretary Charles Schnabel
was indicted and eventually pleaded
guilty to official misconduct.
Schnabel had convinced most
senators to keep him on until Adams
began notifying his colleagues of
each impropriety uncovered in an
unflagging watch of Senate opera
tions.
Adams installed time clocks for
Senate workers, imposed iron-clad
ndes on purchases and insisted on
strict accounting for all government
property.
The strait-laced, tobacco-chewing
legislator also played key roles in the
1976 impeachment trial of District
Judge O. P. Carrillo of Duval County
and initiation of the seldom-used ad
dress procedure that forced Su-
Basic certification training for area
law enforcement officers starts today
the Research and Extension
|R&E) Center in Bryan.
The 240-hour, six-week course
Equips new police officers with basic
ikills and knowledge to carry out
luties.
John Otterstad will instruct the
Law Enforcement and Security
Training Division course at the Texas
Engineering Extension Service
|EES) division’s headquarters. EES
Is part of the Texas A&M University
System.
The division headed by Chief Ira
4-f\ E. Scott will also have basic certifica-
Iv/ lion courses under way at Deer Park,
Arlington, Houston, San Angelo,
, e | Floydada, Abilene and Huntsville.
In addition to the rookie police
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Examiners School in progress at the
Bryan R&E Center. The eight-week
school started Jan. 9.
Basic certification training for
peace officers builds from informa
tion presented on basic law, criminal
justice and law enforcement ethics.
Subsequent sessions cover criminal
investigation, police procedures,
traffic control, juvenile procedures
and proficiency areas. The latter in
cludes crowd and riot control and
defensive tactics, among other sub
ject areas.
Trainees successfully completing
the course will meet requirements
set by Texas law for peace officer cer
tification. The Texas Commission on
Law Enforcement Standards and
Education specifies minimums.
The headquarters certification
course continues through Feb. 24.
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preme Court Justice Donald B. Yar
borough to resign in 1977.
Adams wasted no time getting
started on his latest house-cleaning
assignment.
He marched into the Governor’s
Office of Migrant Affairs minutes
after Briscoe announced the ap
pointment and stopped one em
ployee from leaving with a cardboard
box full of audit records.
“I don’t want anything that’s in
this office leaving without my per
mission,” Adams said.
A capitol security guard is posted
at the door. Anyone entering or leav
ing the office — including agency
employees — now must sign a log
showing who he or she represents
and when they entered and left the
premises.
Adams said the officer is not so
much a guard as a check on traffic in
and out of the office.
“I did not have anyone to set out
there and see who was coming in and
out of the office,” he said. “It’s been
all my secretary could do to keep up
with the phone calls.”
Adams also ordered two desks
moved into his office for the assistant
director and an auditor to sit under
his watchful eye.
“I’m just very cautious,” he said.
The ban on the use of Spanish, he
said, also was a precaution'.
“I don’t speak Spanish. It’s simply
a matter of security for me. I want to
be privy to the conversations in this
office.”
Adam’s order halting the flow of
money from the office brought howls
of protest from some individuals in
volved in the government-funded
programs to assist migrants.
“I’ve asked two auditors from the
Criminal Justice Division to look at
each of the contractors and tell me in
their professional opinion whether
each grant is a proper request and
that they are entitled to the money
under their contract with us,” Adams
said.
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