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Hance discloses plans
to enter governor's race
By JERRY OSLIN
Stuff Write/
Saying that the people of
Texas have lost faith in Gov.
Mark White, Republican Con
gressman Kent Hance said Satur
day that he plans to run for gov
ernor in 1986.
Hance stopped short of offi
cially announcing his candidacy
for the gubernatorial race but
said, “We definitely plan to be on
the ballot.”
Hance said he will officially an
nounce his plans in late August or
September.
Hance’s comments came dur
ing a press conference at the Col
lege Station Hilton.
Hance, in town for a meeting
with local Republican Party offi
cials, said Texans are upset with
White’s performance as gover
nor.
“During his campaign, Mark
White promised not to raise taxes
but ended up pushing for the
largest tax increase in the state’s
history,” Hance said. “About 70
percent of the school districts in
Texas will have to raise their
property taxes anywhere from 15
to 150 percent.”
Hance also criticized White’s
handling of the state education
reform bill.
“Some good things came out of
House Bill 72, but Mark White
did not allow enough input from
the teaching profession,” he said.
“Mark White has not exhibited
the leadership this state needs.”
Hance also responded to crit
icism that he recently switched to
the Republican Party so he would
have a better chance of winning
the 1986 gubernatorial election.
“I would have won as a Demo
crat,” he said. “The change in
parties was a philosophical one.
I’m more comfortable with the,
ideals of the Republican Party.
“For years we have had two
Democratic Parties in Texas, a
conservative one and a liberal
one. More and more conservative
Democrats will change to the Re
publican Party as the Democrats
move to the left.”
Prisons
Judge OKs agreement settling
13-year old inmate civil rights suit
Associated Press
HOUSTON — A federal judge
who previously ordered sweeping
changes in the Texas prison system
said Monday he would approve an
agreement on overcrowding, resolv
ing the last major issue in a 13-year-
old civil rights suit filed by inmates.
U.S. District Judge William
Wayne Justice said, “On balance,
terms of the stipulations will be ap
proved by the court.”
Justice made the statement after
hearing attorneys for the state and
the prisoners endorsed an out-of-
court agreement that puts a ceiling
on the number of inmates in the
Texas Department of Corrections,
the nation’s second largest prison
system.
Prison officials said compliance
with the agreement would be diffi
cult, particularly with the time con
straints on new prison construction.
The attorney for the inmates, Wil
liam Bennett Turner, said he was
not optimistic that the corrections
department would be able comply.
“It’s not in the nature of the
prison beast to make changes,”
Turner said.
State prison board Chairman
Robert Gunn agreed with Turner’s
skepticism, but insisted officials “are
going to get the job done.”
Rick Gray, the state’s attorney in
the case, said, “We would not have
entered into an agreement we could
not comply with.”
Under the settlement, hammered
out earlier this year between state of
ficials and lawyers for the inmates,
the prison population of nearly
38,000 must be cut to 32,500 within
four years.
Prison officials have promised
that trustee camps and new prisons
will take care of any increase in the
Under the settlement,
hammered out earlier this
year between state offi
cials and lawyers for the
inmates, the prison pop
ulation of neatly 38,000
must be cut to 32,500
within four years.
number of inmates.
Lane McCotter, who took over last
month as director of the Corrections
Department, said, “We’re going to
give it our best effort. I’m sure we
can do it.”
Gunn said, “There are going to be
problems and we are going to drop
the ball but it will not be intentional.
Overcrowding is going to be a prob
lem for at least four years.”
Gunn said too many minor of
fenders were being sent to prison,
and he suggested greater use of half
way houses, restitution centers and
probation to ease the growth of in
mate population.
Still, with construction of one new
maximum security prison set to to
begin within a few months, Gunn
predicted another two to four pris
ons would be needed soon in the 26-
unit system.
Gray said he believed the shrink
ing of the population also would
ease violence among inmates. More
than 400 inmates were stabbed and
25 were killed last year, making 1984
the bloodiest on record in Texas
prisons.
So far this year, 15 inmates have
been slain and more than 140 have
been stabbed.
Turner said he saw a lack of re
sources, the corrections department
bureaucracy and the will of the de
partment as hurdles to making cer
tain the agreement worked.
“Oldtimers would like to get back
to the good old days,” he said. “Hav
ing that mood inhibits prompt com
pliance.”
Prison overcrowding was the last
issue to be settled in the suit that be
gan in 1972 as a handwritten peti
tion by prisoner David Ruiz, who
was serving time for armed robbery.
Ruiz, now in a federal prison after
it was decided he might not be safe
in a Texas facility, is awaiting an ap
peal op a perjury conviction and trial
on sexual assault and robbery
charges.
In 1980, after nearly a year-long
trial, Justice demanded extensive re
forms in the prison system. An ap
peals court upheld most of the or
ders, but overturned Justice’s order
for one-person cells for all inmates.
Under the settlement, which
averted a trial that had been sched
uled for earlier in the year, two-per
son cells will be allowed but the space
in the cells must be increased.
Turner said some 5,000 single cells
would be created by imposing the
population cap.
Justice already had given prelimi
nary approval to the agreement
reached in May but withheld final
approval until he could hear com
ments from prison inmates.
Turner said Monday he received
184 objections signed by 1,616 in
mates, with complaints addressing
visiting rights, prison conditions, in
adequate recreation and staff and,
among other things, skepticism that
the corrections department would
comply.
State group
begins review
of textbooks
Associated Press
AUSTIN — History textbooks
proposed for Texas classrooms con
tain too much about blacks, too little
about the Values of homemakers and
too-small pictures of George Wash
ington, the State Textbook Commit
tee heard Monday.
“With the exception of one text,
there’s not a picture of George
Washington larger than the picture
you see on a one-dollar bill,” com
plained Eleanor Hutcheson of Fort
Worth, representing the Daughters
of the American Revolution.
“You can see more history of our
country on money than you can in
these texts.”
Monday was history book day as
the committee began hearings on
$92.9 million of textbooks the state
will buy. The committee’s recom
mendations will be forwarded to the
State Board of Education, which will
select the books next month.
Textbook critic Mel Gabler of
Longview offered brief remarks and
a lengthy printed analysis of the his
tory texts. He said many of the books
do not meet state law.
People for the American Way, an
anti-censorship organization,
praised the proposed texts as a “sig
nificant improvement” over books
used in past years.
Several women complained about
the books’ treatment of women. The
witnesses said feminists have pushed
publishers too far.
Jennifer Amo of Flurst, mother of
six, said some books fail to mention
“the contribution of a full-time
mother to rear strong, self-reliant
moral children who will become citi
zens capable of self-government.
Ada Ferguson, incoming presi
dent of the Austin PTA, agreed. She
said texts should be written “so that
young girls don’t feel put down, un
enlightened or unfulfilled if they
choose to stay at home with their
children.”
Hutcheson had a long list of spe
cific complaints, including that some
books included pictures of Malcolm
X that were larger than pictures of
Washington.
“Black is not beautiful all the
time,” she said, contending that
some blacks mentioned in the books
had communist ties.
Hutcheson said Crispus Attucks, a
black believed to have been a leader
in colonial protests that led to the
Boston Massacre, was an Indian, not
a black.
Hutcheson also listed several well-
known American authors she al
leged had communist ties.
William Willmann of Fort Worth,
a retired Army officer representing
the Military Order of the World
Wars, complained the texts included
too many references to black sol
diers.
“We felt there was an overempha
sis on race throughout the text, par
ticularly on blacks,” he said of one
book.
He said mention was made of
black troops “. . . whether their con
tribution was noteworthy or not.”
SMU wins $10,000 at cost-cutting competition
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Southern
Methodist University saved more
than $21,900 by using hand-held
computers to write campus parking
tickets. And on Monday it picked up
another $10,000 by winning first
prize in a college cost-cutting con
test.
The Dallas institution won top
honors in the annual contest spon
sored since 1976 by the National As-
sociation of College and University
Business Officers and the United
States Steel Foundation.
Second prize, and a check for
$7,500, went to Kansas Newman
College in Wichita, which saved
more than $20,000 by devising a
method to encapsulate its asbestos
ceilings rather than removing them.
Thousands of schools across the
country face similar problems with
the potentially cancer-causing
material widely used in building in
sulation in the 1950s and 1960s.
Third prize, and $5,000, went to
Duke University Medical Center in
Durham, N.C., for a mail registra
tion system for campus parking that
saved almost $67,000.
W. Bruce Thomas, a vice chair
man of the U.S. Steel Corp., pre
sented the awards to the colleges at a
meeting of the college business offi-
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