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Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 4

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-'iitau-4 -T: rti'-irri--rT'--rWir uo ittc B'lnj'wrS'iii f' i 1 111 Wmw CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Tues Feb 23 1971 DPS Directo Of Data Reports To Retire Soon AUSTIN ffl Woerner director of reports and statistics for the Texas Department of Public Safety and a pioneer in the field of traffic accident statistics will retire March 1 DPS Director Col- Wilson Speir said Woerner is nationally known for his work with accident records and for his uncanny accuracy in forecasting the number of violent deaths on Texas streets and highways during major holiday periods is the architect of the DPS 'Operation pro- gram which attempts to reduce accidents and save lives on holidays by focusing public attention oh traffic Speir said College Guard Power Proposal Is Criticized Legislature Throws Bill To Subcommittee Mercy By ROBERT HEARD AUSTIN (AP) A bill that would allow university security guards to demand the name and address of anyone on campus drew so many arrows at a hearing Monday it was sent limping to a subcommittee perhaps mortally wounded The bill is designed to assist guards In handling any Smith Names Three to Hoard AUSTIN Ut Gov Preston Smith appointed three members Monday to the board of regents for state senior colleges They are Mrs Edward A Clark of Austin wife of the former ambassador to Australia Lee Drain vice president of the Republic National Bank of Dallas and James Tuttle a San Marcos real estate developer Each was appointed to a six-year term building after regular hours when directed to do so Caldwell wanted to know if the guard would have the right to arrest someone in a campus building if the guard reason to believe he had no right to be there? For example suppose the student had long hair? Campus guards sometime think persons with long hair are less than Musslewhite said the guard would have the right to arrest FALCON BILL INTRODUCED Sen Don Kennard (right) of Fort Worth introduced a bill Monday making it unlawful to capture or possess a bird of prey without a permit Sen A Schwartz (left) Galveston and Sen Joe Christie El Paso admired the hooded bird on the Senate floor (AP Wtrephoto) Senate Votes To Hike School Student Shots PORTRAIT SPECIAL 2 DAYS ONLY WKDNISDAV 4 THURSDAY FIB 24 A 29 10 AM-1 PM A 2 PM-4 PM TWO LOCATIONS WINN'S 9 80S LEOPARD A 1330 AIRLINE RD sent to Gov Preston Smith proposal raising benefits for 33000 retired school teachers by 10 per cent The measure would require no new taxes It would be financed by investments from the $800 million teacher retirement fund By JACK KEEVER AUSTiN W-Texas senators Monday voted to give parents the final word on some teen-age common-law marriages and to require several additional vaccinations for public children They also adopted 29-0 and person who might be on campus 'Tor the dedicated purpose of causing some kind of said Rep Dean Cobbb Dumas Cobb sponsor of the bill said there was a hiatus in the law that permits rabble to come on campus and refuse tn give their names The real problem fared by guards is determining whether someone is a student said Bob Musslewhile representing the University of Texas System If it is a student he can be disciplined Musslewhite said The bill would not authorize guards to do anything about nonstudents other than to identify them Rep Neil Caldwell of Angleton suggested that the proposed law which would authorize a fine up to $200 was unenforceable How would the guard know if the name and address were genuine Caldwell said If they were the guard might not see that person until a week later after the guard had looked at 19000 other faces he said Rep John Hannah of Lufkin asked Musslewhite if he personally would object to requiring arsons slopped by campus piards to prove their identify Musslewhite said he had no objection to that we paint students with the school suggested Rep Wayland Simmons of San Antonio Hannah wondered why It should be all right to authorize officers to insist on this informa-ion from citizens on campus when the same thing is illegal off campus except under suspi cious circumstances really concerned about the constitutionality of this said Rep Don Adams of Jasper Adams said the US Supreme Court recently ruled that trespass laws must be tied to some breach of the peace He suggested that Cobb's bill also would have to be tied to some infraction to be upheld in the courts is lots of case law on the right to said Rep Sam Coasts of Dallas is the first attempt I've seen to make it unlawful not to Also referred tn a subcommittee was another campus Nil by Cobb this one making it a misdemeanor to refuse to leave a Reforms Proposed In Welfare Agency NO AGI LIMIT-ADULTS WELCOME LIMIT-ONE CHILD PER FAMILY ADDITIONAL CHILDREN $200 EACH $200 EACH CHILD SELECTION OF FULL POSES NO APPOINTMENT NEEDED PROOFS WILL BE SHOWN AND FINISHED PICTURES WILL BE DELIVERED AT WINN'S activated charcul Sail van a better tads A tasts plain wlilt IllUr cm match 18 mg 12 mg racDthw ev dgKitU FTC Report Nov 71 $3 million public school pupils who now are required to get a smallpox vaccination would also have to get shots for diphtheria polio tetanus and ru hella (German) and rubeola (red) measles under the bill sponsored by Sen Chet Brooks of Pasadena It cleared the Senate 28-0 and now goes to the House Brooks said the bill provides for religious exemptions Also sent to the House on a 29-0 vote was Dallas Sen Mike McKooI's proposal to require underage teen-agers to get their consent before filing declarations of Informal marriage The measure would apply to teen-age girls from 14 through 17 and boys IB through 18 After that they can act on their own Parents could have the marriages declared void if the teenagers acted without their consent The House tentatively approved two bills removing the status as a protected game animal and eliminating the present requirement of a state permit to kill or sell them Another vote is needed on each bill Rep Gerhardt Schulte of San tfarcos the sponsor 6aid all xiffalo are either in private hands nr on public reservations He said the meausres make the buffalo like a domestic animal It gives the individual the right to do as he pleases with his private Sehulle later said the State! Parks and Wildlife Department had requested the legislation since the permit requirement was an administrative nuisance House members also tentatively approved a hill allowing hunters to shoot game from cars on private property Hunters are doing this now the state and the game wardens turn their explained the sponsor Rep Guy Floyd of San Antonio AUSTIN W-A bill to make the State Department of Public Welfare more responsive to en elected official was approved and sent to the floor Monday by a Senate committee Under the bill the head of the department would he called a secretary instead of director and would be appointed for a two-year term by the governor The appointment would have to be confirmed by the Senate Presently the director is selected by a three-member board appointed by the governor That board woulil be abolished The term would expire the same year as the governor's although he always could be reappointed Name Change The name would be changed from Department of Public Welfare to Department of Human Resources The bill was sponsored by Sen Bill Moore of Bryan chairman of the Senate Affairs Committee which heard the bill The proposed changes were recommended by a Senate In terim Committee on Welfare Reform which suggested last fall that the department be reop ganized and its name changed Dr June Ilyer an adviser to the Interim Committee said the welfare department actually administers a federal rather than a state program She told the Stale Affairs Committee that the bill would put the organization in a more direct line to elected officials who would then have a larger voice in what federal welfare legislation is passed Advisory Committee The bill also proposed a 31 member advisory committee-one from each senatorial to keep the governor in formed at the local level Sen Ralph Hall of Rockwall committee member suggested each senator appoint his district's member to the advisory board instead of the governor appointing them all Hall asked Miss Hyer if the secretary would still be all-powerful she said he would still answer to an elected official the That did not appear to sit well with the senator Hall said he would offpr two amendments on the floor to limit the advisory board to one meeting a year and have the board confirmed if not individually picked by the Senate If you want to finance your new car at Bank Rates finance it at a Bank Swarming termites wish Terminix on their worst enemy Phone for free inspection 853-9959 BRUCE TERMINIX Phone Companies Push Fight on Regulatory Bill Cut Rate Proposal AUSTIN W-A bill was Introduced in the Senate Monday allowing transportation companies to set special reduced rates for persons over 65 blind or disabled Nine senators sponsored the proposal STATE NATIONAL BANK Where your TIME CREDIT LOAN officer is waiting to help you buy the new car you've been wanting Find the new car you want and we'll do the rest! COME IN AND SEE FOR YOURSELF Caller-Times Austin Bureau AUSTIN Telephone company spokesmen Monday continued their opposition testimony to a bill to create a state telephone regulatory agency They spoke before a Senate state affairs subcommittee studying the bill (SB 77) by Sen Charles Wilson of Lufkin and another measure (SB 191) providing for state regulation of all utilities II Price Jr of the San Marcos Telephone Co which has not had a rate increase since 1954 said an adjustment may be sought soon because his company may have go into the bond to finance expansion Price said small telephone companies are concerned that state regulation would burden them red tape and addi tional He said his company has maintained constant rates for more than 15 years in the face of sharply rising equipment and labor costs and taxation Of 649 independent telephone companies 29 years ago Price said there are only 98 today and 29 of these sene less than 500 customers Other witnesses before the subcommittee Monday indudet Don Holdridge of San Angelo representing General Telephone Co Art Taylor of Richardson Continental Telephone Co and McDuff of Killeen Mid-Texas Telephone Wilson announced the subcom mittee will meet again at 9 am Wednesday to hear witnesses on SB 191 by Sen Moore of Bryan DO YOU SUFFER FROM ARTHRITIS? 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