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AUSTIN—The Citizens Advisory Committee of the Joint Committee on Prison Reform will hold a public hearing in Hous ton on Thursday, June 27, and a Mesquite resident will be a member of the committee. The Citizens Advisory Committee, which is a grap of 22 citizens assisting the legislative Joint Committee on Prison Reform, will meet 10 a.m. June 27 at the Rice Hotel in Houston. They are also scheduled to meet that night, and Br. Cruce of Mesquite will be among them The Citizens Advisory Committee is chaired by Charles Sullivan of San Antonio. Vice-Chairman is The Rev. C. Anderson Davis, head of the Houston chapter of NAACP. Other Houstonians on the com mittee include The Rev . L. Jackson, pastor of the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church, Dr. Lewis Roht of the University of Texas School of Public Health; J B “Sonny” Wells, founder of New Directions Rehabilitations Center, Tod Herring, former heavyweight boxing cham pion of Texas and a con victed felon, George Buch, Gene Locke, di rector of Houston's Lynn Fusan Institute, and Percy Follis Other appointees to the committee include BW Cruce, Mesquite attorney, Dr. Lester BE. McGary, Corsicana urologist, Henry C. Nobles, em ployed at Legal Aid and Defenders Society in Aus tin; Pather Richard A. Houlahan, affiliated with the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Dallas; David B Filvaraff, professor of law at the University @ Texer at Austin; Dr Russell L Deter, who works at the El Paso Medical Center; Don Reid, publisher of the Huntsville tem, Robert Paukner of Fort Worth and Garfield Thompson of Fort Worth Interested persons are invited to give testimony to the committee concern ing the Texas Departmen of Corrections and the Texas Youth Council Further information or appointments to testify can be obtained by calling the Pasadem office of Sen. Chet Brooks, chair man of the Joint Com mittee of Prison Reform, at 477-3634
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Mesquite Daily News
Mesquite, Texas, US
Sun, Jun 16, 1974
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