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THE BATTALION
THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1978
the state
Briscoe overruled:
Senate rejects Briscoe s
appointment ofYantis
United Press International
AUSTIN — The Senate voted
27-1 Tuesday to uphold the tradition
of senatorial courtesy and reject
Gov. Dolph Briscoe’s appointment
of Hugh C. Yantis as chairman of the
State Insurance Board.
Conservative senators praised
Yantis, but said they could not go
along with the governor’s attempt to
circumvent the long-standing tradi
tion calling for the governor to con
fer with each senator about ap
pointments of his constituents.
“I think this is an unfortunate case
of a very qualified individual being
appointed in a rather obnoxious
way. He was appointed without
clearing it with the senator from the
district in which he resides,’’ Sen.
Chet Brooks, D-Pasadena, said.
Sen. Lloyd Doggett, D-Austin,
made an unsuccessful attempt to
send Yantis’ appointment back to
committee to avoid a direct vote of
approval or disapproval of the ap
pointment.
When the move failed on a close
vote, Doggett invoked the privilege
of senatorial courtesy to demand
that his colleagues reject the nomi
nation.
Yantis had sought to circumvent
the tradition and Doggett’s opposi
tion by moving his legal residence,
but said Tuesday it proved impracti
cal. He said he had hoped his per
formance on the insurance board
would change Doggett’s mind.
“I’ve held the line on unnecessary
increases in insurance rates,’ he
said. “I think I’ve been a good
chairman. I would like an opportu
nity to continue doing it.”
Yantis served 11 years as head of
Texas water pollution control agen
cies and was sharply criticized as
being pro-industry by some law
makers before Briscoe named him
to the insurance board on Sept. 2,
1977.
Doggett had indicated he also
wanted to block the nomination of
Dorsey Hardeman to the state water
commission, but the Senate voted
23-5 to approve the appointment.
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The Bryan program and two
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The grants are provided under the
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began June 1.
The funds are to be used to
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high energy consumption, provide
emergency funds to prevent hard
ship or danger to health due to util
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provide energy conservation infor
mation and education.
Singer draws crowd
Clint Brown sings a Michael Murphey tune
while entertaining at the Arts and Crafts Fair
that was held Wednesday around the Rudder
Fountain. The Arts and Crafts Fair contia
today until 3 p.m.
Hu Million photo by Ch*ryl Ca
Houston police to screen applicants!
more closely, draft reading exam r
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HOUSTON — The police de
partment will begin screening ap
plicants more closely because 10
percent of the cadets flunk training
because they cannot understand
what they read.
T just can’t believe it, Capt.
L.D. Miehna said. “College
graduates are flunking out, and they
tell me they just can’t read and keep
np.”
Miehna, who has been at the
academy since December, said
Tuesday that of an average class of
60, 12 will leave voluntarily and six
of those will have a reading prob
lem.
Houston City Council Tuesday
approved an $11,500 contract with a
consulting firm that will study the
problem and draft a reading test for
applicants by the end of next year.
Under the present system, there
is no academic test given applicants
prior to entering the police
academy. That means the city loses
the $1,100 a month paid a cadet
while he trains to become an officer.
The consulting firm, Lifson, Wil
son, Ferguison 6c Winick Inc., will
determine the reading level neces
sary for success as a Houston
policeman and develop a test to
measure an applicant’s ability.
“The easiest way to do this would
be to take a test off the shelf,”
Miehna said, “but the first person
who failed it would complain that it
is not a job-related test.
“It may be that the policyf
in Chicago and the officer ini
ton may need to possess dlj
levels of comprehension, i
said.
Capt. B.H. White, lu‘adcf|l
recruiting, said the test wiMi
both the department andthq
cants.
“Let’s test the applicantaf
out if he possesses the abl
read. That wax’ this man dtts
quit a job and come here and a
later dismissed, '' hite said
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QUALITY FIRST'
Second tax
session requested
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AUSTIN — Republican Gaylord
Marshall Wednesday urged Gov.
Dolph Briscoe to call a second spt
cial session of the* Legislature ..
necessary to provide tax relief for
Texans.
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the Senate. So far. theirl
complishment has been ^ the L
few cosmetic measures. |
Marshall said that the
race.
Marshall, who is opposing Lt.
Gov. William P. Hobby in the
November election, accused Hobby
and Attorney General John Hill, the
Democratic nominee for governor,
of ignoring the needs of people.
Gov. Briscoe was correct in his
decision to convene the Legislature,
because tax relief for the people has
been long overdue,” Marshall said.
However, after meeting
foi
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who have attempted to pass
tion providing meaningful I pj 0MS j
have been stifled by Hobb) u$A(
“I am angry and upset, a *.J n l
not alone,” Marshall said. | u L
travelled this state listening™
people, and they are notf
taken in by the political mai*
ing of the Hobby-Hill forcesl
He said he is requesting*!
special session because HoblsJ
Hill have manipulated the |
session at the expense ofta
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