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Paqe 4/The Battalion/Wednesday August 21,1985 Citizen groups demand new election Associated Press BEAUMONT — Two citizens groups in this financially troubled tures her group had collected but was optimistic the number was suffi cient to force an election recall. city say they have more than enough signatures on petitions to force an election to recall its mayor. Sandra Collier of Citizens United for Responsible Government said she didn’t know how many signa- Her group wants to recall Mayor Bill Neild and Councilman Wayne Turner. vately-owned Schlesinger Geriatric Center, said his clients’ union col lected about 1,200 signatures de manding a mayoral recall election. wage within the city from $3.35 an hour to $4.10 an hour. Gunman said. a novel idea.! I New and used hardbacks, paperbacks, magazines, recordsjj and cassettes... all at half price or less. 3828 TEXAS AVENUE Bryan, Texas MAGAZINES 846-2738 we buy and sell anything printed orr SI Reuben Guttman, a legal consul tant to striking workers at the pri- The Service Employees Interna tional Local 706 also collected about 1,250 names on petitions to force a vote on increasing the minimum It takes 960 signatures or 30 per cent of the vote in the April election to force a recall election and 800 sig natures or 25 percent of the April vote to force a wage referendum. Unethical lawyers risking punishment Associated Press AUS TIN — Lawyers who unethi cally solicit business from victims of the Delta Flight 191 crash will be in vestigated and punished if guilty. not going to sit around and do noth- the president of the State Bar of Texas vowed Tuesday. “In Texas, we don’t intend to turn our heads when people are coming in here solicitng clients. . . . We’re ing when the code of ethics is vio lated,” said bar president Charles L. Smith. Raelal discrimination; DALLAS *— A panel will hold hearings m and Houston next week to exam ine racial segregation and dis- in Tederally subsn the need for low-income housing and pro posals to demolish public hous ing, tndudmg the 1,000-apart- ment Allen Parkway Village housing project in Houston, a subcommittee spokesman said. The House Subcommittee on Housing and Community Devel- lent, chaired by U.S. Rep. try B. Gonzalez, D-San Amo- , will hold day-long hearings Dallas on Aug, 29 and in Hous- t on Aug. 30. The hearings will examine ra- [ segregation in subsidized U.S. Reps. Steve Bartlett, Mar tin Frost and John Bryant are also expected to attend the hearing. The hearings follow U.S. Dis trict judge William Wayne Jus- rice’s landmark ruHug in july News reports following the Aug. 2 crash, which killed 134 people at the jDallas-Fort Worth airport, noted that some lawyers had traveled to Dallas and talked with potential cli ents. At least two lawyers stayed at the same hotel that housed families of crash victims. In a letter to several Texas and Florida newspapers and some na tional news outlets, Smith said the State Bar will take all appropriate ac tion against Texas lawyers or those f rom out of state who violate rules of conduct. “It is unethical for a lawyer to so licit business such as the representa tion of survivors or the families of the victims of this tragedy,” Smith’s letter said. “If any citizens feel they have been wrongfully solicited by an at torney or have been badgered into entering an unwanted lawsuit, they should contact the general counsel’s office of the State Bar of Texas. This matter will be immediately investi gated,” he wrote. Smith, in a telephone interview from his San Antonio office, said he wrote the letter after seeing the news reports, adding that bar officials know “certain things are going on. “We have statements from the public as to some things that may have happened there,” he said. “We are looking into anything that may have occurred there.” Bar association rules prohibit offi cials from discussing specific com plaints or investigations. Texas has a law prohibiting barra try, which includes the practice of soliciting clients. The State Bar’s code of professional responsibility also prohibits initiating contacts with prospective clients. 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