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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.
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