■The Battalion
STATE & LOCAL
3
Wednesday, November 1,1989
Clements seeks
impeachment of
1 Jim Hightower
I AUSTIN (AP)
B- Governor Bill
Elements called
Tuesday for state
Agriculture Com-
■lissioner Jim
Kightower’s irn-
Beachment, citing
published reports
Biat said High-
tower’s travel and
Hieal expenses
l™in d y erfedera ' Hightower
I The governor responded to a
copyright story in The Dallas Morn-
mg News Tuesday that said the U.S.
department of Agriculture is ques-
Honing about $7,000 in expenses
dightower and his top deputy, Mike
Moeller, billed to a state and federal
d op inspection program.
I The state auditor is looking into
Bie expenditures, the newspaper
^eid.
I Moeller defended the charges.
■Hightower was said to be traveling in
Pennsylvania and would not com
ment on a pending investigation.
I “Obviously, (Hightower’s) office
Has been operated on a very loose
Ijjbasis, and I’m being kind when I say
Hoose basis,”’ Clements told the As
sociated Press on Tuesday.
I “Certainly he should reimburse
Hie state, but I think it goes beyond
Biat. . . I think it’s an act of contin
ued misbehavior and perhaps we
should impeach him,” Clements
said.
B Under investigation by the USDA
are expensive meals at restaurants in
Austin, and hotel and dining tabs
from around the country, all billed
to the Texas-Federal Inspection
Service. The service is a cooperative.
quasi-governmental agency provid
ing crop inspections to Texas grow
ers.
Moeller defended all of the
charges he billed to the inspection
service, the newspaper said.
“Each of those charges on my
credit card were for business meet
ings — either Texas-Federal meet
ings or Texas Department of Agri
culture meetings,” Moeller said.
Traveling inspectors are super
vised by the Texas Department of
Agriculture and the U.S. Depart
ment of Agriculture. The service is
supported by fees from growers.
Federal investigators say many of
the bills accrued by Hightower and
Moeller seem unrelated to crop in
spections.
Andy Welch, a state agriculture
department spokesman, said,
“There is a widespread belief among
the people down here (at the state
Agriculture Department) that the
USDA is just trying to stir up poli
tics.”
Welch said Hightower was in Har
risburg, Pa., to address a farm group
and couldn’t be reached for com
ment. He also said Hightower
couldn’t comment on a pending in
vestigation.
Texas Farm Bureau President
S.M. True, whose organization has
openly criticized Hightower and his
policies, on Tuesday asked USDA
Secretary Clayton Yeutter for “a full
report on all federal activities” in the
Texas Department of Agriculture.
True said it would be “the only
way” to resolve questions of political
motivation.”
Puff pays her bills
Valleri Dietz, a sophomore psychology major from Brenham,
gets into the spirit of Halloween by wearing a dragon costume
Photo by Mike C. Mulvey
her mom made. She produces some smiles as she stops off at
the fiscal department to pay a bill.
Judge discusses court, philosophy at forum
By Andrea Warrenburg
Of The Battalion Staff
sen
“Fergie plans Texas trip
I
The Texas A&M College Republicans held a
forum in Rudder last night featuring Justice
Terry Means of the 10th District Court of Ap
peals and Peter Roussel, former Deputy Press
Secretary of the Reagan White House.
Means spoke to the crowd of more than 50
people about the jurisdiction of the district court
and his judicial philosophy.
The 10th District Court is located in Waco but
has jurisdiction over 16 counties from the Brazos
County to Ellis County. Means was appointed to
the bench by Gov. Bill Clements in December
1989 to complete the term of a retiring justice
and comes up for his first election next year.
Means said he believes in a strict-construction-
ist philosophy, which is a strict, literal interpreta
tion of the Constitution and legislative laws.
He also serves on the bench with an anti-tech
nicality philosophy.
“A person is entitled to a fair trial under the
Constitution, not a perfect trial,” Means said.
“Judges and juries cannot rule perfectly. In most
cases where errors occur, they do not contribute
to the conviction.”
Roussel spoke to the crowd about the media
and the presidency. He said the most notable
change in the last 25 years has been from print
coverage to electronic coverage and that how the
press covers the presidency should be looked at
with the eye of reform.
Roussel is at A&M to help with University pub
lic relations, as special council to help secure the
George Bush Presidential Library and as a visit
ing lecturer in the Department of Journalism.
| CORPUS CHRISTI (AP) — Brit
ain’s “Fergie,” the Duchess of York,
will spend Saturday night at a re
mote South Texas ranch near Heb-
bronville as part of her Texas visit,
according to the British consulate
general’s office in Houston.
H Officials said the former Sarah
Ferguson will fly from Houston Sat
urday afternoon to a sprawling
ranch owned by Oscar Wyatt, chair
man of Coastal Corp., to spend the
night.
I The Duchess of York is five
months pregnant and officials at
Memorial Medical Center in Corpus
Christi were alerted about her visit
by State Department representa
tives.
“We are to be on stand-by at the
hospital to which the duchess will be
brought if she develops any prob
lems with her pregnancy while in
our area,” said hospital administra
tor Walter B. Lipes.
She will not be accompanied by
her husband, Prince Andrew, dur
ing the visit to Texas, officials said.
Lynn Wyatt, Oscar Wyatt’s social
ite wife and a benefactor of the
Houston Cran<3 Opera, invited the
duchess to Texas. While in Houston,
the duchess will stay at the Wyatts’
home in the posh River Oaks area.
The Wyatt ranch, named Tasa
Jillo, includes a Spanish-style ranch
home and private landing strip.
Detention center estimates damages from riots
EDEN (AP) — Business returned
to normal at a private detention fa
cility Tuesday, a day after a riot
squad squelched the second inmate
protest in five months.
The scene at the Eden Detention
Center was starkly different Mon
day, when violence erupted after in
mates and prison officials disagreed
about several rule changes.
The inmates broke furniture and
security systems and shot off fire ex
tinguishers before order was re
stored, said Roy Burnes, chief exec
utive officer and owner of the Eden
Detention Center. A U.S. Bureau of
Prisons spokesman said damage was
estimated to be $10,000.
Bogdan said the inmates de
stroyed televisions, mattresses and
some surveillance equipment.
About 300 prisoners are housed
at the private facility, which con
tracts with the U.S. government to
hold federal prisoners.
Two inmates had to be hospital
ized for minor injuries from the fire
the fire extinguishers, Burnes said.
But he said no one was seriously
hurt.
The demonstration started peace
fully as a sit-in by about 200 inmates
Sunday. The prisoners were protest
ing changes in exercise time.
About 75 inmates continued the
protest Monday morning, refusing
to eat breakfast.
“We had to use physical force to
bring them under control,” he said.
Burnes said prison officials won’t
budge on prisoners’ demand to abol
ish control of inmate movement and
get access to the recreation yards un
til midnight. Policy requires inmates
to be in their cells by sundown.
Many of the prisoners are illegal
aliens serving sentences of less than
18 months for federal crimes, said
Greg Bogdan, a Bureau of Prisons
spokesman in Washington.
About a dozen inmates who orga
nized the protest have been isolated.
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