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Thursday, July 13, 1989
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What s Up
Thursday
STUDY ABROAD OFFICE: will have an informational meeting on Fulbright
Grants and Marshall Scholarships at 10 a.m. in 251 Bizzell Hall West. For more
information contact Cathy Schutt at 845-0544.
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 m&et at noon. For more information contact
the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280.
Friday
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS: will meet at noon. For more information contact
the C.D.P.E. at 845-0280.
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on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no guarantee an entry will run. if you
have questions, call the newsroom at 845-3315.
Richards says incompetence cost state $6 milli
AUSTIN (AP) — Incompetence
in the Texas Department of Com
merce forced the state to return at
least $6 million in job training funds
that now will go to other states,
Treasurer Ann Richards charged
Wednesday.
“The result is going to be that
more than 4,000 unemployed Tex
ans will suffer, not the bureaucrats
in Austin who are responsible for
this travesty,” she said.
Richards, who is seeking the Dem
ocratic gubernatorial nomination,
blamed management of the new de
partment that was created at Gov.
Bill Clement’s urging. But she said a
governor cannot escape the blame.
“I don’t think Gov. Clements or
any governor has time to actually di
rect the day-to-day activities of an
agency,” she said. “I do think that
the chief executive officer of this
state should make certain that the
people who are responsible to that
officer are doing thejob.”
Clements, a Republican, rejected
Richards’ criticism as the rhetoric of
a political candidate and little more.
“Under the circumstances of her
running for office, she’s prone to say
some things that are perhaps not ex
actly true,” Clements said. “She
might be better advised to tend to
her business in her own depart
ment.”
Clements said he was satisfied
with the department’s management.
The money returned had been in
cluded in federal funds given to the
state by the U.S. Department of La
bor. Under federal regulations, the
state loses 70 percent of unspent
funds under thejob Training Part
nership Act.
Money from the federal program
goes to “dislocated” workers, includ
ing those who have been laid off,
farmers, the long-term unemployed
and those who lost jobs through
plant closings. The program is de
signed to provide training and edu
cation for new jobs, relocation and
other benefits for the unemployed,
Richards said.
But because the Texas Depart
ment of Commerce left $9 million of
that money unspent last year, $6 mil
lion of it now is going to other states,
she said.
“The money is going to be spent
to train jobless men and women in
Maine and Wyoming,” she said.
“They probably need job training,
but not any more than our own
500,000 Texans who are now out of
work.”
The failure to train those additio
nal workers also means additional
unemployment taxes for business to
cover benefits to the jobless, she said.
“So we have now sent back $6 mil
lion to Washington nnH mJ
Texas businesses to doiT'slil
“I think it’s incompetence.” [
J. William Lauderback, exJ
director of the commerced!
ment, wasn’t in his office WedJ
to respond to Richards’criticisl
secretary said. A departtnentsJ
man was in a meeting and noil
diately available, the officesaidl
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House, Senate OK bill to repeal confidentiality law
AUSTIN (AP) —*• The Texas Legislature sent
the governor a bill Wednesday to repeal a new
law allowing police to withhold the names of fel
ony crime victims.
The repeal was approved by the House with a
134-0 vote after it was amended to protect cer
tain crime victims from being contacted by com
panies soliciting business, such as those selling
home security systems.
The Senate concurred with the House amend
ment, 27-0, and sent the bill to Gov. Bill Clem
ents for his consideration. Rossanna Salazar,
deputy press secretary to the governor, said
Clements would sign the measure.
News organizations decried the confidentiality
law after a number of law enforcement agencies
began withholding information they previously
had made public. The law was passed in the reg
ular session that ended May 29.
Some agencies withheld information on miss
ing children and accident victims, George Irish,
San Antonio Light publisher, said in testimony
this week to a House committee. Irish rep
resented Texas Media, a first amendment and
freedom-of-information coalition of seven Texas
news media organizations, in urging repeal of
the new law.
Rep. Fred Blair, who sponsored the confiden
tiality law and the bill repealing it, said the origi
nal measure “was being broadly applied to acci
dent victims, DWIs, missing children — all the
kinds of things that we want to provide informa
tion on.”
“So we repealed it, and we’re going to take a
look at it in the future,” Blair, D-Dallas said. Sen.
John Leedom, R-Dallas, was the Senate sponsor
of both measures.
Blair said the bill sent to the governor accom
plishes “about half’ of what he wants in order to
protect crime victims, but that he wanted “an
ample opportunity for full discussion”.
The bill, in addition to the repeal, would pro
hibit using crime victim information obtained
from law enforcement agencies to solicit business
from the victim or a family member of the victim.
In Advance
Juvenile Services to host Satanism workshtj
“Cults, Witchcraft and Sata
nism” is the topic of a workshop
sponsored by the Brazos County
Juvenile Services Department
from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Brazos
Center on July 19.
The guest speaker is Lou Sloat,
director of the Texas Ritualistic
Crime Information Network. He
will give an overview on topics in
cluding:
• Cults, witchcraft and Sata
nism.
What do their symbol' mpan: £
• Heavy metal rock music J
its effects on teen-agers.
• Profiles of susceptible ptl
pie: symptoms, how to htj
where to go for help.
• Fantasy role-playing gamei
A $5 registration fee inclii(:{
reference materials and lid
lure. A four-hour training cen t
cate will be awarded to pan.-j
pants.
For more information conii:
The Dabblers/Satanists
Irma Cauley at 361-4195.
A&M fire school gears up for conference
The Texas Firemen’s Training
School at Texas A&M, the largest
firefighter school in the world,
will begin its 60th annual confer
ence July 23. Registration begins
Sunday July 16.
Chief Tom Foster, assistant di
vision head of fire protection and
training, said the firefighter’s
school is designed to teach fire
fighters techniques that will im
prove their firefighting skills.
The conference is sponsored
by the state Fireman’s and Fire
Marshal’s Association and the
Texas Engineering Extensi
Service. The conference wil
centrate on industrial andmuti
ipal firefighting techniques. P
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States and abroad are expected I
attend the three-week conferq
ce," Foster said. "We are exped
ing more than 4,000 Firefignier!
total.”
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offered which will teach firefiglfl
ers how to spot and work
hazardous materials while figb|
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