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( MUA/c/y hunch 4\ Jlk y -lN J3J m f | 1 ^xS^ | egulatory agencies seek Increases in state funding oming' businesses difficult to regulate rrellofik ole. ;ase AUSTIN (AP) — The private eye ndustry is probably the most boom- ng business in Texas and requires '1cHo nore rnone y an< ^ staff to regulate, JvJvlhlfSenate Finance Committee was old Thursday. ^■he committee, with the Legis- M’)— attire in adjournment, reviewed s Skunl mdget requests Thursday from reg- smellya flators of private detectives, Texas this nonjhysicians and county jails, as well as >" ii. )ther state agencies, to disinii D.ile Simpson ol Dallas, a member Hacker, oftljie Board of Private Investigators whose md Private Security Agencies, said he agency in 1975 regulated 3,000 the skunlndividuals with a staff of 30. In such ar:l98ti. he said, the agency regulated some TO,000 persons with a staff of 37. Hut the “The private security business is ith mwlt probably the most booming business luct. iq the state of Texas today, and has subpoenoeeri for several years,” Simpson >11 oiShe: said ,800 peop Simpson and Executive Director Clefna Sanders presented the agen- W.S. Fn:y’s budget request of $3.97 million entire «|r 11988-89. The 1986-87 budget, s urging which is covered by licensed fees, is citv pe^ ost $2.9 million, liiinnl' Simpson said the agency has only ^ 'l ( i seven investigators to cover the state, and in 1986 it handled 6,000 admin istrative cases. “We have, we think, more than reached the sathration point,” he said. The board, established in 1969, regulates private investigators, alarm systems, armed and unarmed guards, armored car services, cou riers and guard-dog companies. Sanders said that of the 80,000 persons regulated by the agency, 25,000 are authorized to carry fire arms. The Texas State Board of Medical Examiners asked for 11 more em ployees in the fiscal year starting Sept. 1 to police the medical profes sion. Its two-year budget request is nearly $6.5 million, compared with the 1986-87 budget of $4.9 million. James Lively, a board member from Corpus Christi, said the agency had completed the initial phase of board recommendations from last August — training investigators, switching from quarterly to monthly meetings, adding four attorneys and raising renewal fees. The physician renewal fee was raised to $84, effective Jan. 1, and would cover the increased budget requests, Cynthia Jenkins of Stowell, a public member of the board, said. Lively said that as of Dec. 1, Texas had 41,809 physicians, and that the board would maintain “constant oversight” of the discipline for in competent physicians or those ac cused of malpractice. Robert Viterna, executive director of the Commission on Jail Stan dards, told the committee his agency was created in 1975 to keep county jails out of the federal courts and had succeeded. In 1975, Viterna said, 40 percent of Texas’ county jails were under federal court order but now only three county jails are under federal court jurisdiction. He said 170 of Texas’ 242 jails had met all commission standards for certification, and “successful law suits against jails have dropped off dramatically.” Viterna said the total jail popula tion had grown from 12,000 in 1975 to 20,500 last year. He said the single greatest impact on increased jail populations has been the law requir ing jail time for certain drunken drivers. WASHINGTON (AP) — The Reagan administration wants to cut in half funds for the U.S. Customs Service’s airborne fight against drugs and eliminate 2,000 jobs, a Senate Finance Committee source said Thursday. The move comes at the same time officials are calling for a stepped-up war on drugs. The cuts were contained in the Reagan administration’s budget pro posal submitted to Congress earlier this month, said the source, who spoke on the condition he not be named. The Reagan proposal calls for re ducing the fiscal 1987 Customs per sonnel budget from $830.1 million to $803.1 million, the source said. The proposal would reduce Cus toms’ personnel limit from 15,037 to 13,039 by 1988, with 1,500 jobs cut in 1987, and 500 lost in 1988, the source said. In addition to those cuts, the source said the Reagan proposal calls for cuts from $170.9 million to $86.2 million funds for air support for drug interdiction. “This is a very serious reversal of where we’ve been going, coming from a president and administration who’ve touted their war on drugs,” said Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz. “There’s anything here but com mitment, seems to me. I hope that some public outrage will cause him to change it or maybe he doesn’t know what’s going on,” said DeCon cini, chair of the subcommittee that oversees the Customs budget. Reagan said in his budget message to Congress earlier this month that under his proposed 1987 spending plan “drug abuse initiatives are con tinued, while resources devoted to drug law enforcement have tripled since my administration began.” However, under the Reagan pro posal earlier this month, state and lo cal drug law enforcement assistance would be cut from an appropriated level of $225 million in fiscal 1987 to zero in 1988, according to DeConci- ni’s press aide, Robert Maynes. Money for drug education, set at $200 million this year, would fall to $100 million in 1988, while the Cus toms drug treatment program would lose all funding next year. Sen. Lloyd Bentsen, chairman of the Finance Committee, in Novem ber said he would fight any attempt by the administration to cut Cus toms’ budget. “In spite of all the problems that we’ve had with drugs and the great flow of drugs across our borders, you’ve seen a determined fight by the Budget Office to continue to cut down on the number of Customs in spectors, and it’s really dumb be cause the payoff for the dollars spent in Customs is a multiple of many times,” Bentsen said. iffeis orwonM! 1 lenyouW offl'nivers' last (■•a.) r % E b's Deli Super Bowl Party $1 50 Pitchers of Beer Z.D. Required 696-Debs 404 University Dressed Denims! Jeans laundered at S 1 Hd each, when you bring this coupon to our location just oft l niversity. a — College Station 1 < Cleaners £ 5 r ea. ( nils lax I ( Keg. 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