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White defends prison board appointment
United Press International
AUSTIN — Gov. Mark White de
fended his decision to name Ruben
Montemayor to the state prison
board Thursday despite accusations
that the former board member had a
deplorable record during his earlier
tenure.
Montemayor, a San Antonio at
torney who served on the prison
board from 1975 to 1981, was
anted to the spot vacated by the
death of board member Pete Cortez.
His selection has been criticized by a
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“At a time when TDC is under-
joing one of its greatest crises, and
nnovative leadership is needed, the
governor has seen fit to appoint a
former board member whose pre
vious record was deplorable,” said
Charles Sullivan, director of Citizens
United for the Rehabilitation of Er-
■ants.
Rep. Ray Keller, R-Duncanville,
hairman of the House Law En-
breement Committee, said that he
vas appalled by the appointment
md that Montemayor had been no-
orious as a “rubber stamp}” of mis-
ilaced board policies.
But Montemayor said the crit-
:ism was unjustified because he and
ither earlier board members had
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not been informed of improprieties
by prison administrators.
“Had we known there was any
thing going on, we would have put a
stop to it,” Montemayor said. “We
had no knowledge anything illegal
was going on.
“I don’t know Mr. Keller and he
does not know me. After I’ve served
six months to a year, I am probably
the governor has seen
fit to appoint a former
board member whose pre
vious record was deplora
ble.” — Charles Sullivan,
director of Citizens
United for the Rehabilita
tion of Errants.
going to surprise him. I know it is an
entirely new ballgame.”
In defending his appointment,
White said critics have been too
hasty in their judgment.
“I think you ought to give the man
the benefit of the doubt and give
him an opportunity to see if he is
going to serve properly,” White said.
“I’ll assure you if he doesn’t, he
won’t be there very long.”
White also repeatedly compared
Montemayor’s record to those of
board Chairman Robert Gunn of
Wichita Falls and board member
Harry Whittington of Austin, two
appointees of former Cov. William
P. Clements who generally have
been credited with spearheading
prison reform efforts.
Whittington served on the board
during the final two years of Monte
mayor’s term and has been credited
with casting the first dissenting vote
in memory against a TDC proposal.
“I’m surprised by what I consider
to be an unfair reaction in that he
has done nothing different than
than what Bob Gunn did or What
Harry Whittington did,” White said.
“They have the same voting record.”
Sullivan’s group, CURE, has been
the most vocal in its opposition to
Montemayor’s appointment. Sulli
van said Montemayor missed 20 per
cent of the board meetings during
his tenure.
He also accused Montemayor of
using his board position to further
his law practice by representing the
families of prison inmates.
But Montemayor said his 80 per
cent attendance record was “darn
good” and that he had never de
fended prison inmates or their fami
lies while he served on the board.
Michenerto aid
Tech fund-raiser
United Press International
LUBBOCK — Author James
Michener will be the guest celeb
rity Sunday at a party to help
raise money for the Texas Tech
home economics college. Georgia
Mae Ericson, the granddaughter
of one of Crosby County’s first pi
oneers, will host the party at her
ranch near Crosby ton.
The home is within sight of the
ruins of a well-known rock house
built by Ericson’s grandfather,
Hank Smith, in 1878. The house
was used as a gathering point for
pioneers and travelers.
“There are many historic coin
cidences here,” said Gail House,
Texas Tech’s home economics di
rector of external relations. She
said Ericson will give Michener a
private tour of the Crosby County
Museum Sunday before the
party.
Montford said he plans a pri
vate meeting with Michener be
fore the party to discuss the his
tory of West Texas water. House
said Michener might want to use
the information in the book he is
writing about Texas.
The home economics college is
selling keys to the Ericson ranch
for $1,000 per couple. The party
)upl
offered na-
will be limited to 50 couples.
The guests will be
ture hikes, a chuck wagon supper
and country western dancing.
The ranch party also will include
an auction featuring an auto
graphed set of Michener’s books,
an Ericson bull and a bronze
sculpture made by Garland
Weeks, a Texas Tech graduate.
“We do have some scholarship
funds in the college, but we have
students that need scholarships
that we are not able to award,”
House said.
She said Ericson suggested a
ranch party to raise scholarship
money, and they agreed they
needed a guest celebrity; so they
chose Michener.
Ericson last year was one of two
women named outstanding
alumni of the home economics
department. She entered Texas
Tech at age 14 and graduated
with a bachelor’s degree in food
and nutrition.
She was in the catering busi
ness in Chicago and Washington,
D.C., before retiring and return
ing to Crosbyton. She is a mem
ber of the home economics dean’s
advisory council for devel
opment.
Few see
historical
document
United Press International
DALLAS — The 687-year-old
copy of the Magna Charta bought by
H. Ross Perot has been shown to a
select few the past two weeks, but the
computer magnate said it may be
some time before the document goes
on public display.
Only employees at Perot’s Electro
nic Data Systems Inc., 120 Plano stu
dents, and a few dozen workers at a
Dallas law firm have viewed the valu
able piece of history.
Perot said Wednesday plans for
displaying the document publicly
will not be considered until details of
its preservation are worked out.
That process gets underway Fri
day, when two authorities on preser
vation of rare documents from the
University of Texas at Austin arrive
to examine it.
Perot said Dechard Turner and
Don Etherington of the UT Human
ities Research Center will help him
determine the best way to preserve
the document.
“Vellum (a fine parchment that
the document is written on) has a
tendency to react negatively to
Texas climates,” Turner said. “It’s
one of the problems of great collec
tions in the Southwest.