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Housing agency tentatively passes rules for projects Report says lax attitude at TDC causes trouble Associated Press HUNTSVILLE — A lax attitude toward inmate beatings, combined with poor employee records, has contributed to guard brutality in the Texas prison system, according to the draft of a court report. The draft, which has not been made public but was obtained by the Houston Chronicle, examines guard brutality in the Texas Department of Corrections from May 1984 to Feb ruary 1985, when Raymond Procu- nier was prison director. Actions by Lane McCotter, who was then director of prison opera tions, apparently undermined TDC’s efforts to stop guard brutal ity, the Chronicle quoted the report as saying. McCotter replaced Procunier as director after he retired in June. “Lower-ranking officers are now usually responsible for the actual use of excessive force,” the report stated. “Nonetheless, failure to report and false (ret continue at almost o sporting) cc all rank levels. It appears TDC does not regard the failure to report the use of force very seriously.” The 109-page report, when com plete, will be filed with U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice of Tyler. The document was prepared by court-appointed monitors Paul Bela- zis and Gary A.Kuiper, according to the Chronicle’s story published Wednesday. Gunn declined to comment on the report, but said, “We’re doing the best job we can and if it doesn’t sat isfy the public, then they should do something about it. The report said poorly kept re cords on TDC employees contribute to guard brutality. Procunier and McCotter were criticized in the document for hand ing out more severe punishments to guards possessing drugs than to those who beat inmates. Associated Press AUSTIN — The Texas Housing Agency has tentatively approved new rules aimed at getting more low- income residents into apartment projects it backs. Agency Administrator Earline Jewett said Wednesday that studies have shown that some apartment de velopers are building the projects in high-income areas, effectively keep ing out lower-income residents. The agency also found that nearly 25 percent of the apartments the agency helped finance were occu pied by residents with annual in comes topping $30,000. The agency board of directors unanimously gave tentative approval to the new rules Tuesday. Final ap proval will not come until the new rules are laid out for public com ment for 60 days. Under the program, the agency offers low-interest construction loans to apartment developers who agree to set aside a certain number apartments for low- and moder ate-income families. Tax-free bonds are issued by the agency to cover the loans. Current rules say 20 percent of the apartments in a complex must be rented to people or families earning less than 80 percent of the median income in their area. For example, the income cutoff in Dallas for a family of four is $24,160. “It’s very easy in high median in come areas where 80 percent may be $20,000, to meet that 20 percent re quirement by renting to singles who are at the entry level in the job mar ket,” said Ms. Jewett. Under the new rules: • At least 10 percent of the apart ments would have to be rented to tenants earning less than 50 percent of the area’s median income. • Rents for those tenants could total no more than 30 percent of their annual income. The program now has no rent ceilings. • Another 10 percent of the apartments would have to be rented to people earning less than 80 per cent of the area’s median income. The new system also would bar the agency from using developers’ market surveys in determining whether a proposed apartment pro ject should be funded. Instead, the agency would hire its own apprais ers. Harris County leads state in vehicles per mile of road Associated Press AUSTIN — Harris County has 179 motor vehicles per mile of road way, while sparsely populated Lov ing and King counties have but two per mile, according to statistics used Wednesday by the State Board of In surance to set new rating territories. In a 3-0 vote, the board increased the number of territories from 40 to 52. The changes were made to re flect changes in vehicle density, a key factor in setting insurance rates. The 1983 statistics used to set the new territories show Harris County as the most traffic-clogged with 2,203,766 vehicles for the 179-per- roadway-mile density. Dallas County had 1,528,308 vehicles for a density of 171 per roadway mile. King County in Northwest Texas, population 425, reported 429 vehi cles for a density of two per roadway mile. Loving County, on the New Mexico state line, had 261 vehicles for a density of two per square mile. Service held for student Wednesday A memorial service was held Wednesday for a Texas A&M stu dent who was killed in a head-on automobile accident Monday. Barbara Jean Kurrus, 19, a general studies major from Ar- gyle was driving a 1978 four-door Volkswagen south on U.S. 190 near Old San Antonio Road at the time of the collision. Kurrus’ car crossed the center stripe and struck an oncoming ve hicle head-on, a Department of Public Safety official said. Two people in the other vehi cle were injured, the official said. Silver Taps will be held Sept. 10 for Kurrus and all other A&M students who have died over the Gramm still accumulating donations to ’84 campaign Associated Press WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Phil Gramm’s campaign com mittee has continued full-steam spending an accumulation of dona tions so far this year, Gramm’s first in office. Gramm, a former Democratic congressman from College Station, won his first six-year Senate term last November. According to his campaign finance report for the first six months of 1985, his campaign committee raised $207,080 and spent $447,134, putting his total ex penditures for the race at $9.9 mil lion. Gramm reported cash on hand of $91,577 and a campaign debt of $12,000 as of June 30. The Federal Election Commission has asked a Dallas federal judge to order Gramm’s fund-raising com mittee, Friends of Phil Gramm, to turn over its financial records for an audit. The FEC says it believes Gramm’s committee didn’t disclose debts and misreported contributions and ex penditures. The Gramm committee is resist ing the audit, admitting it did not disclose the debts but denying any intentional wrongdoing. Gramm’s Democratic opponent from last year, former state Sen. Lloyd Doggett, an Austin attorney, had a campaign debt of $213,225, with $9,009 on hand, according to his report. That debt was dwarfed by those of the other two candidates for the Democratic Senate nomination. Former Lubbock Congressman Kent Hance, now a Republican ex pected to run for governor next year, reported owing $583,680 with $5,440 on hand. Hance narrowly lost a runoff to Doggett after squeaking out a sur prise win in a three-man primary race. The expected winner of that con test, former New Braunfels Con gressman Bob Krueger, reported that his campaign owed $799,488 and had cash-on-hand of $2,284. Gramm’s big-ticket expenses were for payroll taxes, financial consult ing fees and accounting, direct mail, bringing supporters to Washington for his swearing-in and a donation of about $5,000 to President Reagan’s inaugural committee. ,o^ & Texas A&M University Faculty, Students, Staff Computer Discount Plan from ComputerLand 38% Discount on IBM, AT&T, Compaq complete systems Also printers, modems, and software Pick up a price list and order form at our store. 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