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Financial industry officials
upset over governor’s veto
AUSTIN (AP) — Financial indus
try officials were mystified and con
sumer activists appalled that Gov.
Bill Clements vetoed a broadly sup
ported compromise bill to alter fore
closure procedures in Texas.
“People are hysterical,” said Carol
Abbassi, owner of an Austin business
that helps people re-negotiate loans.
Abbassi said she received many
calls from worried clients Monday,
adding, “These homeowners are re
ady to slit their wrists this af
ternoon.”
Real estate professionals and con
sumer groups claim that some Texas
lenders have abused their powers by
bidding unfairly low amounts for
foreclosed property and then suing
the borrower to collect the differ
ence.
The compromise bill passed by
the Legislature was backed by lend
ers, consumer groups and real estate
developers. It allowed borrowers to
request a court hearing to determine
the fair value of a home or commer
cial property when a lender seeks
such a deficiency judgment.
The bill was among 54 rejected
Sunday by Clements, who said in his
proclamation the foreclosure mea
sure was “unwise and inappro
priate.”
“This bill has the potential to re
sult in numerous lawsuits and fur
ther delay the collection of defi
ciency judgments,” Clements stated.
“Such delays and further litigation
are not in the state’s best interest.”
People who represent debtors say
the veto will keep bankruptcy rates
high in Texas, as borrowers seek es
cape from lender pressure. Those
who have defaulted on their home
loans are among those who continue
to be risk from low foreclosure
prices bid by lenders.
Lawyer Joe Longley, a consumer
lobbyist, said the veto could lead to
further litigation over foreclosure
disputes. The Texas Supreme
Austin will present
final case arguments
over HL&P project
DALLAS (AP) — After nearly
four months, attorneys will present
final arguments next week in the
civil suit between the City of Austin
and Houston Lighting & Power Co.
over the South Texas Project.
The City of Austin, one of four
owners of the twin reactor plant
near Bay City, contends Houston
Lighting & Power Co., the managing
partner, failed to inform them of
problems with the plant. Austin is
seeking to remove itself from the
project.
County Courthouse had no space
available.
The 2,500-megawatt plant ini
tially was expected to cost less than
$1 billion and be finished in 1981.
But the plant was officially dedicated
this spring and its cost is now esti
mated to be nearly $6 billion.
Attorneys rested their cases Mon
day. Because of conflicts with juror
schedules, closing arguments have
been postponed until June 26.
Judge Clarence Guittard is presid
ing over the case, which has been
taking place since March in a make
shift courtroom set up in a strip
shopping center because the Dallas
Bus driver
not indicted
for murder
When Austin called Mayor Lee
Cooke for rebuttal testimony Mon
day, HL&P attorney Roy Minton
grilled him about former city utility
director R.L. Hancock’s knowledge
of the plant’s progress.
Minton cited minutes of meetings
attended by Hancock during the
summer and fall of 1978 that in
cluded discussion of some of the
problems with the project. Minton
also introduced as evidence two
newspaper articles printed in 1978
and 1982 quoting council members
who were upset with Hancock for
failing to inform them about con
struction problems.
“I ask you honestly, mayor, isn’t
this the first time you ever realized
R.L. Hancock was sitting there at
management committee meetings
and hearing all that discussion and
not bothering you all with any of it?”
Minton said.
DALLAS (AP) — A Dallas County
grand jury on Tuesday declined to
indict a 37-year-old city bus driver in
connection with the May shooting
death of a passenger.
Chauncey J. Plummer, a Dallas
bus driver for 10 years, had been
charged with murder in the May 24
shooting of David Hayden, 25.
Plummer picked up Hayden and
a woman on a downtown street and
told authorities that, through his
rearview mirror, he saw the woman
hand her bus pass to Hayden, who
then tried to use it.
The driver told Hayden he could
not use the pass, an argument en
sued and Plummer ordered Hayden
off the bus, police records show.
Hayden was shot once in the back
with a handgun as he exited.
Plummer told police that Hayden
punched him in the jaw before he
stepped off the bus.
Plummer had been assaulted
twice on the bus route in the past two
years, once breaking his hand and
the other time suffering a black eye,
Dallas Area Rapid Transit spokes
man Ron Whittington said.
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Court, he said, could resolve some
borrower vs. lender disputes when it
rules on two foreclosure-related
cases before it.
Brad Wiewel, a consumer lawyer
and former president of the Texas
Consumers Association, said, “If you
look at his (Clements’) contributors
and the people who have supported
him, he has bitten the hand that fed
him.”
Robert Harris, president of the
Texas Bankers Association, said his
industry group had written the gov
ernor recommending approval of
the compromise bill.
“I’m sure that some fingers are
being pointed at us that we had
something to do with this,” Harris
told the Austin American-States-
man. “We absolutely did not. When
this organization cuts a deal with the
Legislature and our opponents, we
live with those compromises.”
Rep. Terral Smith, who spon
sored the foreclosure provision, said
the governor’s veto will lead to more
lawsuits.
“We will end up with court-made
law rather than legislative law. It will
be costly and we don’t know' what the
rules will be,” Smith said.
Wednesday
TEXAS ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COALITION: will meet at 7 p.m. in 118
Civil Engineering Building. Ed Barron will speak about “Habitat Management of
the Red Cockaded Woodpecker". For more information contact Geoff Smith at
764-9489.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. For more information contact
the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. For more information con
tact the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280.
GAY STUDENT SERVICES: will meet at 7 p.m. in 402 Rudder. For more infor
mation contact Terry at 823-2877.
Thursday
LATIN AMERICAN CATHOLIC STUDENTS ASSOCIATION: will meet to have
a volleyball game at 8 p.m. at the St. Mary's Student Center.
NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at 8:30 p.m. For more information con
tact the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280.
ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS: will meet at 6 p.m. For more information
contact the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280.
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. Contact the C.D.P E. for more
information.
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Commission plans to award
racing dates to horse tracks
AUSTIN (AP) — Under pressure to get parimutuel
lacing out of the gate, the Texas Racing Commission
plans a July 16 meeting to begin awarding racing dates
to horse tracks.
Commission Chairman Hilary Doran said the un
usual timing of the 8 a.m. Sunday meeting is the “first
reasonable date” available for the date-setting session.
“The bottom line on racing is, ‘move it,’ so let’s get
it
Fhe bottom line on racing is, ‘move
it,’ so let’s get going.”
— Demarious Frey,
racing commissioner
track will have 46 days of parimutuel racing this year
Commissioners refused, however, to award die trad
dates before thejuly 16 meeting.
Texas voters approved parimutuel wagering
horse and dog racing in November 1987. To dale, no
races have been run, although eight horse tracks hart
been granted Class 2 wagering licenses.
One obstacle to early racing is a provision in the stall
law that requires racing stewards to be peace officer
A bill which would have removed that requiremem
and allowed the commission to pass the cost of stewards
on to tracks failed in the Legislature last month
going,” Commissioner Demarious Frey said.
On Monday, Ed Carrithers, operations director for
G. Rollie White Downs at Brady, asked the commission
to set racing dates at his track beginning in September.
Officials said Heart of Texas Racing Inc., which has
leased the Brady track, has a commitment for an eco
nomic development loan that hinges on whether the
The commission staff predicted difficulty in findiiij
enough stewards who qualify under the current lawn
conduct racing.
Lack of funds to pay travel expenses for steward'
who don’t live near the tracks compounds the problem
they said.
“1 am very, very adamant that we start racing thisfai
with the best stewards available and not have to hireai
inferior person just because we don’t have travel monei
to get better qualified people to_lhe track,” Comtnis
sioner Hugh Fitzsimons said.
AggieHostel
But Cooke said he had no recol
lection of details that occurred 10
years earlier when he was a member
of the council. He did recall he or
dered a November meeting with
HL&P officials on the subject. Cooke
said it wasn’t until that meeting that
council members learned project en
gineer Biown & Root was “funda
mentally incapable” of handling nu
clear engineering.
“I don’t recall being told (by
HL&P) that we had a fatal flaw like
that in the project,” Cooke testified.
Austin’s attorney John Hill said
later Minton and other HL&P attor
neys “took a few things out of con
text that make it appear R.L. (Han
cock) had not fully reported
problems on the job,” Hill said. “We
take sharp issue with that, but that’s
not the point. When our people
went eyeball to eyeball with Houston
. . . what was not being reported to
anybody was the absolute destitute
condition that the engineering itself
was in.”
Austin attorneys have argued
throughout the case that if the city
had known about some of the prob
lems earlier, it would have taken
steps to correct them, or perhaps not
joined the nuclear project.
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It covers every meal, special event
and course. Everything is just laid
out for them.”
George Sumner, Class of ’42, said
the one thing he’s been most over
whelmed by during the week is all
the changes the University has un
dergone since he was a student.
“The school and the campus
really have changed,” Sumner said.
“The rooms now are very nice. I
used to live in Hart Hall, and now
everything is so much better because
it’s broadened so much. It has to be
considered a positive change.”
Irwin C. Mark, Class of ’41, said
he came to AggieHostel because his
two grandsons are students at A&M.
The week’s events have been he ex
pected and more, he said.
His wife, Cecil Mark, said she had
a friend who is here for this year’s
AggieHostel and that she was
shocked at how much the University
has grown because College Station
was nothing more than a “cow town”
when he attended A&M College.
Milton Rhea, Class of ’39, said he
and his wife decided to come to Ag
gieHostel because their three sons,
one of whom graduated from A&M
in 1980, pitched in and paid for it as
their Christmas present last year.
“The school is about 20 times as
big,” Rhea said. “It’s so large. But it
still feels like the same place. A&M
has kept its flavor pretty good over
the years.”
After being away for so long, an
alumnus can lose touch with the
school, Garner said, and that’s why
AggieHostel has been successful.
“We’ll probably want to come back
30 or 40 years after we’ve gradua
ted,” said Garner, who graduated
from A&M in 1979. “I know when
you graduate from school, the last
thing you want to do is come back.
But because there’s no tests or
homework — it’s not a true school
atmosphere — it’s more fun. I guess
they come back because of what
A&M’s all about.”
Gayle Schmidt, a professor who
teaches Healthy Aging for Aggie
Hostel this week and serves on the
program’s planning committee, said
being a part of AggieHostel gives
her a chance to watch how former
students get along with each other
and with A&M students now.
“The ones that were here last year
are kind of like old timers now and
are showing the other ones around,”
Schmidt said. “They’re making
friends with each other. ”
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AUSTIN (AP) — A three-
member Senate subcommiltet
has been appointed to investigate
allegations of child abuse at Saul' 1
Nino Day Care Center in Laredo, I
according to a statement lroin||
Sen. Judith Zaffii ini’s office.
Zaffirini w'as appointed chaii
of the subcommittee by Sen. Chet
Brooks, chairman of the Senate
Committee on Health and Hu
man Services.
Brooks, D-Pasadena, also "ill
serve on the committee with Sen
Frank Tejeda, D-San Antonio.
Zaffirini said the subcommittee
would invite District Attorney Joe
Rubio and members of theWebli
County Grand Jury, “who ha'f
done a good job of searching fot
solutions,” to testify.
“We know the regulatory sys
tem failed the children at that da)
care center,” she said. “We rmiu
ensure that such tragedies do i
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