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Area9s Drag Abuse MigM t. dm I TO nouses, in the Austin area. Now two half-way houses are in the developmental stages. The CAPCO plan, Murphy said, will be included in a state drug abuse plan being developed by the Texas Department of Community Affairs. In the future, he said, one state agency will be given the responsibility of distributing all funds for drug abuse, hopefully eliminating duplication and waste.

system so that treatment could be extended into the counties from Austin. Also needed by all components of CAPCO, he said, is coordination and development of drug education in the public The CAPCO plan, Murphy explained, also calls for more residential treatment centers, espscially in Travis County. "Until very recently, there were no residential treatment centers, such as half-way central referral system a way to supply drug abuse treatment, education and prevention methods. The entire 10-county region, he said, needs to be tied together with an overall explained, is a start a definition of needs and objectives. It will be up to the counties, hopefully united into a consortium, to implement the programs.

Murphy said a grant proposal has been submitted to gain funding for the drug abuse consortium. If that funding is made available, he said, the group could be functioning by early 1975. "If a small city goes to the state for funding for a hotline telephone system, they might not get much attention. But if a 10-county group asks for funds, they probably will get more action," Murphy said, explaining the benefit of a consortium. For the area, excluding Travis County, Murphy feels the number one priority is a Mayor, Manager By JANE FRIES Staff Writer Whether it's a 13-year-old Mexican-American youth inhaling paint fumes or a 30-year-old Anglo heroin junkie, the Kkounty area surrounding Austin has a drug abuse problem.

In fact, according to reports, the area has a higher rate of incidence and prevalence of drug abuse than any other state planning region. The next highest rate is found in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. This information, some to people is not new. What is new is a regional drug abuse plan approved recently by the Capital Area Planning Council (CAPCO). The plan, developed by the CAPCO staff and an 11-m ember drug abuse advisory committee, not only sets objectives for Travis County, which already has many drug related services, but also for the other nine counties.

They are Llano, Blanco, Burnet, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Bastrop, Williamson and Caldwell. "There are no real programs to deal with drug abuse outside of Travis County," explained Hardy Murphy, regional drug abuse coordinator for CAPCO. But, he added, there are numerous concerned citizens who are banding together in citizens' action groups to help develop a comprehensive tvainn-uHHp nrnpram Ihare City Duties Tuesday, Oct 8, 1974 Austin, Texas Page 13 the right one for her Halloween jack-o-lantern. Even with inflation, pumpkins are selling for about nine cents a pound. For a smile like this one, nine cents isn't much to' pay.

(Staff Photo by Larry Murphy) PU1NKLV HEAD The frost isn't quite on the pumpkin in Central Texas yet, but 4-year-old Diane Gonzales is keeping more than an eye on the harvest collected at a North Lamar fruit stand. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Willie Joe Conzales finally found just "to'" The CAPCO plan, Murphy council-manager form) as far as it can be strained." Even his critics, Butler said, "Have said I am one of the strongest mayors since Tom Miller. I've raised the power of the office, but if you get too much, it takes away from the manager.

There is a thin line between the council and the administration." The administration is Dan Davidson. "A good city manager wants a strong mayor who can provide leadership. A strong mayor does not strip a city manager of administrative power," Davidson said. He continued, "The council-manager plan combines the strong political leadership of the elected officials with the strong managerial experience of a city manager. The council makes the decisions, and the manager is the full time executive charged with carrying out those decisions." Davidson said he "sincerely believes" the form is the best for Austin.

"It has worked well in Austin and I think it's working now," he said. Of the nation's 154 cities of more than 100,000 population, he said, 69 cities operated under the councilmanager system. And the popularity of the system apparently is holding up nation-wide. Since World War II, Davidson said, an average of 75 cities per year have switched over to the council-manager system. "One of the key elements of the plan's success is the ability of a council to fire an ineffective city manager without having to wait until his term of office expires," Davidson said.

"There is never any question but that the legislative body (the council) is supreme over the administrative function of a city because they are elected by the people and that is how any government is supposed to serve," he said. Last of a series By MIKE COX Staff Writer Nearly half a century ago in 1926 -Austin became a city with a council-manager form of government. Much has changed since then. But not the form of Austin's government. The two men who figure most prominently in that system of municipal organization, Mayor Roy Butler and City Manager Dan Davidson, think Austin still' has a viable governmental system.

"The council-manager form of government is the best of both worlds," Butler said recently, "especially in a community of this size, because it lets the city be run by a professional, permanent, career administrator and yet allows for the input of public feelings through the council." Butler said the recent council action to give themselves a $12,000 annual salary, which he voted against, is something which is "beginning to tamper with the council-manager system," however. Salaries for councilmen, Butler said, paves the way for "paid, career politicians" running Austin, which he said the people "don't envision for Austin and don't want." Councilmen who are "just citizens," Butler said, "keep the home rule system more intact and maintain its integrity." Butler said he has gone a long way toward making the office of the mayor more powerful, at times "inadvertantly." The mayor said when he took office, he didn't have a secretary, he had only a plywood office and he had no way to "properly meet the public." Now the mayor has a posh office, two secretaries and until recently, an aide. "My intentions were honorable," Butler said, "but I think we've strained it (the Education Problems Foreseen their legitimate needs." Although teachers have conducted strikes in several parts of the country, Texas law prohibits collective bargaining and strikes by public employes. In Austin, the great majority of teachers belong to the Austin Association of Teachers, whose state affiliate opposes strikes, but whose national affiliate, the National Education Association, has supported selected strikes. AAT has a consultation for a more equitable method of collecting school taxes and for a state-local funding program that would spread the wealth of the entire state to improve education in poorer regions.

Brockette said he saw concurrence in the different school finance plans being offered, but that any controversy over teacher relations and compensation has the potential of hurting settlement of the larger school finance issue. Many board members and administrators eagerly applauded Brockette when he said, "I believe that the events that fill our nation's papers clearly show that the schoolhouse is not the place for collective bargaining, and that teachers have no wish to walk a picket line." A distinct minority, however, applauded his following statement: "Let me hasten to add that teachers are deserving of our very best consideration, yet we have too often failed to properly attend the eve of a new legislature, and tragically we seem to be prepared to press our biases and self-interests and emotions on our policy makers, the representatives of the people." When the 64th Legislature convenes in January, restructuring the state's school finance program is expected to be a primary issue. Organizations of teachers and school board members are already gearing up efforts to influence legislation by calling agreement with the school district. A minority of Austin teachers belong to the Austin Federation of Teachers, an affiliate of the AFL-CIO. Brockette also warned administrators not to usurp the policy-making function of school boards, and for school boards not to try to implement their policies the responsibility of the administrators.

The joint convention ended Monday. By LYNNE FLOCKE Staff Writer SAN ANTONIO -Confrontation among Texas teachers, school board members and administrators was predicted Monday by the Texas Commissioner of Education Marlin L. Brockette. Addressing the joint annual convention of the Texas Association of School Administrators and the Texas Association of School Boards, Brockette said, "We are on Maistre for Discussion Ask jLe ate To ty Sen voted overwhelmingly to ask him to resign his chancellorship. Allaire told the senate he had briefly discussed the possibility of the invitation with LeMaistre at a cocktail party given by UT's Board of Regents before Saturday night's football game between UT and the University of Washington.

He said LeMaistre indicated that he was favorable to a would try to meet with UT's ad interim president Lorene Rogers Tuesday to ask her to forward the invitation to LeMaistre, and that he will also call LeMaistre's office to alert it to the invitation. Some members expressed concern that LeMaistre be assured that the invitation stemmed from the senate's earnest desire to create a positive relationship with the chancellor. researcher and the university. Dr. Russell Collins, a physics professor, told the senate that the new regulations force researchers to turn over progressively higher percentages of royalties to UT as the royalties increase.

Collins slapped the new policy as "an arbitrary abrogation of the intellectual property rights of those of us in the sciences." cocktail parties and closed meetings that decisions are being made. I don't think it does us any good to have the press report to Dr. LeMaistre what our strategies are." Allaire also appointed a three-man committee to study UT's newly adopted patent policy. UT's regents recently adopted a patent policy which requires that royalties generated from research at UT be divided between the By STEVE WTSCH Staff Writer University of Texas System Chancellor Charles LeMaistre will be invited to meet with UT's Faculty Senate to exchange ideas on how to assure faculty-student input into the selection of UT's next president. The invitation came out of a Monday meeting of the Faculty Senate.

LeMaistre will be invited to "We don't want to create an adversary relationship instead of an agreeable relationship," Dr. Howard Rase, a chemical engineering professor, told the body. "We don't want to treat him like a big, bad demon," Rase added. LeMaistre has been under heavy criticism for his abrupt firing of UT President Stephen Spurr two weeks ago. Last week UT'sGeneral Faculty meeting with the senate.

Some faculty senators lashed out at the idea of holding open meetings and at the idea of letting the press attend its meetings. "The Faculty Senate needs to demonstrate some awareness of the nature of power in a world of future shock," said 1 1 Parkins," an architecture professor. "It is at the banquets, appear before the body in a "question-and-answer" session which senate members hope will open up new lines' of communication between the chancellor and UT's faculty. After protracted disussion about the invitation, the senate reached a consensus that Chairman Edwin Allaire, a philosophy professor, should move forward with the invitation. Allaire said Monday night he New Grand Jury Commissioner Makes Will Known County Actions Blocked Listens to Sheriff grand jurors into believing whatever he wants them to." Smith has said even while the grand jury was in session that it was a "particularly- able group" and that the members had chosen their own paths of investigation without influence from his office.

Smith said Monday he's ready to "leave alone" the controversy ByTRACEVSMITH Staff Writer Travis County Commissioner Johnny Voudouris made his point known to the commissioners court Monday with the result that the county still does not have a personnel director and the Sheriff's Office does not yet have two additional patrol cars. Voudouris, long considered the swing vote on the personnel director job, asked that a Tuesday work session be scheduled at 9 a.m. to review the topic. He also delayed the sheriff's request for patrol cars unless the money can be found within the Sheriff's Office present budget. County Auditor Bill Rust said a quick check showed them to be about $1,300 Voudouris also asked Chief Deputy Sam Wilson to prepare a report on seven accidents involving patrol cars, in which five cars were destroyed, during the 21-month tenure of Sheriff Raymond Frank.

Voudouris' opposition to commissioner he receives $18,500 plus the latest 11 per cent pay raise. But he has said a personnel director is inevitable and he will support the position so long as he can be certain another department will not take root and grow. When Wilson asked Monday for two more patrol cars and added that one was destroyed with another receiving $800 in damages in a Sept. 27 accident, Voudouris requested that the money come from the sheriff's budget and asked for the accident study. The county recently accepted a bid for seven new patrol cars.

Wilson said later all accidents happened when a patrol car was headed for an emergency location and all were investigated by the Department of Public Safety (DPS). The accidents which destroyed the five cars were caused by a tire blowout, a rear end collision, a collision with a shooting suspect in the Sept. 27 incident and patrol cars hitting a horse and a cow, respectively, in the dead of night. One officer was dismissed after being involved in two accidents. After an accident four months ago, Wilson said all officers were required to take a two-day defensive driving course from DPS and all cars were equipped with steel-belted radial tires.

An investigation revealed that new tires prevented the car receiving $800 dimages on Sept. 27 from being a total wreck, Wilson said. Wilson explained the cars are on the road "24 hours a day, seven days a week" and most are driven about 11,000 to 12,000 miles per month. Officers are not to exceed the speed limit "by any great amount" unless necessary, he said. Commissioners also approved a $240,000 request for the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Project in 1975, $120,000 of which will be supplied by the Criminal Justice Council.

drugs in the Dallas-Fort Worth area come from Travis County. 1 "The report then claims astonishment at the lack of more drug cases being brought by the Travis County i Department," Frank said. Frank said APD and the DPS have special staffs of law enforcement officers to handle drug' cases, but he has none. "I do not try to infer that they (APD and DPS) are not doing their job," Frank said. "What I am concerned about is that Mr.

Roddy and other members (of the grand jury) are trying to leave the impression with the media that I am responsible for 90 per cent of the drug traffic in the Dallas-Fort Worth area." When the old grand jury issued its report last week, an angry Frank said there was "no doubt about the political implications." He said Smith was in "a unique position to dupe the 12 By JOHN SUTTON Staff Writer Sheriff Raymond Frank Monday kept alive the controversy over a critical grand jury report that accused him of not doing his job by taking his own criticism of the report and Dist. Atty. Robert O. Smith to the newly sworn grand jury. Frank has called the outgoing jury's report politically motivated and said the direction of that jury was guided by Smith.

Both Smith and Joe Roddy, foreman of the' outgoing jury have denied the sheriff's charges. Monday moming, Frank read a prepared statement to the newly-empaneled jury which noted the old jury's report praised the Austin Police Department and the Department of Public Safety for their "high standards exemplified in law-enforcement." "In the next breath," Frank said Monday, the report expresses alarm that 90 per cent of the Meet fng of he fx Courthouse Clmye Stall Phttv JOHNNY VOUDOURIS County commissioner the personnel director stems from his desire to prevent another office with a potentially growing staff from taking root in the county bureaucracy. All Voudouris wants and will vote for is a personnel director and a secretary to work in the county auditor's office and be responsible to the commissioners. The salary range is which also irks Voudouris since as a 3 i critical report from the outgoing Travis County Crand Jury, in pari, on the Courthouse Clique. The "office" designated for the meeting is that of a person well acquainted with courthouse "dirt" THE COURTHOUSE JAM-TOR.

Staff Photo by Linda Kerr) CALLED MEETING An unidentified courthouse visitor peers into the room designated as the Tuesday meeting place for the fictitious "Courthouse Clique." Notices of the bogus meeting were posted throughout the courthouse after Sheriff Raymond Frank blamed a.