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earing to examine possible
hanges in MHMR agency
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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
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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
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115 8 el "!kend rapes of two women
rthe age of 80 and the April
|e-slaying of an woman, 83.
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all. But we
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police she was awakened by an
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iirostltf die block was beaten, sexually
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clee, 83, died about an hour
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calls “political” dismissals from
executive positions in Texas
(1970) and Georgia (1974).
He was ousted as head of the
mental health divisions in both
states, which detractors attri
buted to his hunger for power
and inability to get along with
colleagues. His firing in Texas
prompted a bitter power strug
gle between the board and then-
commissioner Dr. John Kinross-
Wright — who eventually was
forced out.
Miller returns to Texas after a
five-year stint as head of New
Hampshire’s program, the
second longest tenure in the na
tion, and dismisses reports he
was urged to leave that state.
Rep. 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. They will have trouble
keeping a commissioner indefi
nitely unless they turn it over to
the commissioner.”
Although much of the con
troversy could surface this week,
it is almost certain to be aired
publicly June 25 when the
MHMR board is scheduled to
consider Miller’s theory on how
to follow legislative mandate to
reorganize, “if feasible,” by Aug.
31.
The task involves 14 state
schools for the retarded, nine
state hospitals, four human de
velopment centers, 66 outreach
programs and 30 community
centers with a total of 26,000
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