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Newspaper
Silsbee Bee
Location
Silsbee, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1977
Page
10
A legislative committee led by Rep. DeWitt Hale opens a two day hearing to review complaints of abuse in Texas mental hospitals and developmentally disabled facilities. Witnesses cite staff shortages and call for outside professionals.
Gov. Dolph Briscoe announces several appointments including Lynn Coker of Conroe as ninth district judge succeeding his father on the Polk San Jacinto Montgomery and Waller counties bench. He also names Dr. Richard Brassard to the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners and Dr. Jay H. Pertnen to the board replacing Walter Fischer. Nancy O Bryant Puentes named assistant for information to Attorney General John Hill.
Austin state representative Herman Adams Jr. of Silsbee was named to a seven member joint House study panel by Speaker Bill Clayton. The committee, drawn from State Affairs Industry Insurance and Judiciary, will study self insurance for workers compensation claims with 12 studies planned and final reports due before the 1979 session.
Mrs. Caroline Martha Olsen 92 of Silsbee died Friday night at Silsbee Convalescent Center. Services were at 4 p.m. Sunday at Farmer Funeral Home with burial in Rest Lawn Cemetery Victor. Survivors include son Arthur Olsen of Evadale and many descendants. Pallbearers were Ysidro Rodriguez and others.
The high court agreed with an intermediate ruling disbarring an attorney in a conspiracy to bribe former Treasury Secretary John Connally. It set oral arguments in a $230,000 damage suit over a boy’s arm lost in a washing machine accident. The court held no jurisdiction to overturn an intermediate ruling allowing a Texas woman to seek higher child support from an ex husband now living out of state. It ordered transfer of a strangulation case from juvenile to district court. It will hear whether a Victor woman was falsely imprisoned by a Beaumont department store. It agreed to hear arguments for a disabled Dallas veteran claiming a landlord failed to provide a habitable apartment.
Atty. Gen. John Hill reported a policy requiring at least 150 copies of state publications be provided to the State Library. In a separate opinion, further guidance on publication duties was noted.
Attorney general rules there is no barrier for employed participants moving from one approved retirement program to another as long as actions aren’t aimed at subverting the law. The release notes a North Texas State University physics audit parts open to public inspection with personal IDs omitted.
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