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state Battalion/Page 5 June 8, 1982 earing to examine possible hanges in MHMR agency j United Press International 14 hearing this week may be- (inlto expose a power struggle rang the Texas Department 1 Cental Health and Mental Irdation, the Legislature, || mental health commission nd its new commissioner. |^t issue is who will call the ; for the mammoth depart- which cares for 2.5 million Ians suffering from mental Iss or retardation. \lthough by law the commis- jer runs day-to-day opera- Is, there are allegations the Imission has too active a role Ihich in turn upsets the Leg- lure. The Texas House hearing on dnesday will focus on how icomplex department, with a $1 billion biennial budget, should be reorganized to better serve the state’s mentally feeble and disturbed. Some fear that the latest round of angry politics could harm the department and damage patient care. The power struggle may also emerge from behind the scenes as the hearing convenes amid re ports of secret meetings and illegal influence exerted by the strong-minded commission which oversees the department. There also are reports that Dr. Gary E. Miller, 46, may be ousted from the $71,000 com missioner’s post — a job he has held since February despite pre vious firings in Texas and Geor gia — if he refuses to accept the board’s concept of how to run the department. Others say that board chair man L. Gray Beck of San Angelo — who calls the House investiga tion a witch hunt — may be asked to step down by members of his own board. The board has the power to hire and fire com missioners and make policy, but not to run daily department operations. Beck believes operations and programs involved in the MHMR organization should be separate while Miller wants to combine them under deputy commissioners of mental health, mental retardation and manage ment-support. Miller has 18 years experi ence in the mental health field — a career that includes what he raniff bankruptcy auses court hassle United Press International I0RT WORTH — A federal [kruptcy court is so over timed by the task of supervis- ‘1,000 creditors of Braniff Bmational that it will open a |arate Braniff annex. Pe tC r nrf'The court will more than gible its current staff of seven omen and its office space to indie a parade of attorneys, Iniff ticket-holders and for- r employees of the defunct line. Bernetta Leiden, bankruptcy irk for the northern district of ixas and coordinator of the office expansion, said the di mensions of the case are stag gering. “Most of the time we have one creditor, or three,” she said. “Occasionally, we get 3,000 or 5,000. But, my God, we’ve never had 80,000.” Braniff filed a Chapter 11 bankruptcy petition last month, swamping the office. To help handle the over whelming workload from the Braniff case, the court plans to open the separate Braniff annex this summer. Nine temporary :an Gaud an attendi tolice link rapes of three )allas women, all over 80 school an lid. “Ty to 25 yftf’ irte “ d c p)ALLAS — Police said there ie or ' be similarities between the 115 8 el "!kend rapes of two women rthe age of 80 and the April |e-slaying of an woman, 83. “There are similarities,” an stigator said. “They were all all. But we city just a few hours after the first assault. The woman told police she was awakened by an intruder who slapped her, raped her before escaping her jewelry. xpectspe] Texas the NOW iginau iid^iy women ant i c and t 0 n' t know for sure until we I heic - ,^ e some arres i; S .” is weeM ^ However, he said no arrests ostotii ere anticipated today in the test incidents. ™ N | lAn south Dallas woman, 80, on is in fair condition at a local Love ft jjpi ta i a ft e r she was raped. She afmi^' [j assaulted early Sunday by a aypasst ^ w jj 0 cr awled into her bed, at her, hit and raped her repe- 6dly, stabbed her in the sto- ich and told her to “lay down id die.” After the man left with the >s befort '2-caliber revolver she kept ’er her pillow and stole her phone, she crawled to the wife, P e c * oor h er borne and called ™ help. Inc. Fol* xac tIy two months earlier, ,tone of i ot h er elderly woman in the iirostltf die block was beaten, sexually psed and left to die. Emma clee, 83, died about an hour gi,: ifter a man dragged her from y. It house to her backyard as she •I! Iried for help. f.. . | Another woman, 81, also was Sped, beaten and robbed early in the same part of the nip TUESDAY NIGHT BUFFET AT PIZZA INN 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. All you can eat: salad, spaghetti, and pizza for only *3.09 We also have a noon buffet everyday from 11 a.m. to p.m. except Saturday. 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Walter Grubbs, an Abilene Democrat recently de feated for re-election, first said he was appalled that the Texas board rehired “someone as con troversial and with this kind of job history” over 25 other appli cants. But Grubbs, who will preside at Wednesday’s hearing, now has quarrels only with the com mission. His committee and one in the Senate oversee the MHMR agency and board oper ations — which lawmakers have distrusted for years. “I consider this board to be the big problem and you can quote me,” Grubbs said. “The commissioner is the mental health authority for the state of Texas and under House Bill 3, has to run the department. “The board is a policymaking board only. The chairman of the board, Mr. Beck, will not accept that. 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