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Vinyl Bumperstrip 1979 Send $1 each or $2.50 for three with stamped, self-addressed envelop _e to: Deep in the Heart Enterprises P.O. Box 9701. Austin, Texas 78766 STEPHEN F. AUSTIN HOTEL Comfortable rooms in an histbric setting at reasonable rates. Meeting and banquet facilities.Free parking. BOIS D’OC CAFE Restaurant and Coffee Shop Cocktails in Quiet Atmosphere, Happy Hour, Live piano entertainment Located 3 blocks from the Capitol 7th and Congress, Austin, Texas Reservations and information 512/476-4361 1608 Lavaca 478-3281 32nd & Guadalupe 452-5010 201 E. Riverside 441-5331 CLOUD S Representation, Counseling, & Litigation for Political Action Committees on all PAC matters in the Capitol Dowling & Wilson 812 San Antonio Street Attorneys-at-Law Suite 206, Austin, Texas Personal Service Quality Insurance ALICE ANDERSON AGENCY INSURANCE & REAL ESTATE 808A E. 46th, Austin, Texas 459-6577 Good books in every field JENKINS PUBLISHING CO. The Pemberton Press John H. Jenkins, Publisher Austin 78768 \( _,_6 THE BRAZOS BOOK SHOP 803 Red River Austin, Texas Literature and the Fine Arts new and used books Monday through Saturday 9:30 a.m: to 4:30 p.m. Featuring Local Presses and Authors: Including Thorp Springs Press. Prickly Pear Press. Texas Circuit. Encino Press. Shoal Creek Publishers, Jenkins Publishing, Place of Herons Press, and many others 1000 West Lynn, Austin, Texas 478-3001 Store hours: Mon-Sat 9:30-7, Sun 12-6 ST HEN’S clS z. tckol% New.outdoor French Cafe Lunch, Supper & Cocktails every rule made by every agency in the State of Texas, we may as well close down the executive branch and let the Legislature take on the other executive functions as well. “Of course, that will not happen. What will happen is that a small committee of the Legislature will become a ‘superboss’ of the executive branch, multiplying the political considerations that already hamper the orderly conduct of . state government. “The Legislature cannot review all the rules. Instead, a committee of the Legislature will have the privilege of selecting a number of them for review. The potential for abuse is monstrous. Even if there were no abuse, the committee would be forced to make an arbitrary selection of times and occasions to exercise this new power. “It is certainly not what the framers had in mind when they called for three branches of government. “If the Legislature is writing vague statutes that give the agencies too much discretion, the solution is better laws, not a perversion of the separation of powers. . . . “State agencies . . . must do their work without political interference or uncertainty about what public policy is. At best, administrative flexibility will be reduced. At worst, legislative conflict could make it impossible for the executive branch to function.” Vote “no” on Amendment #2. The only other amendment on the ballot this year deals with notaries public. It provides for their statewide registration by the secretary of state instead of the present county registration and allows for four-year rather than two-year terms for notaries. It beats me why this is in the constitution. Since the Legislature didn’t offer us the option that makes the most sensesimply repealing the constitutional provision dealing with notaries and letting them be regulated by statutethe Observer’s not making an endorsement. You can take your pick between the arguments of the amendment’s backers \(that it will cut down on paperwork, save trouble for county opponents, who seem chiefly concerned with the growth of bureaucracy and centralization of power in Austin. L.R. ANDERSON & COMPANY COFFEE TEA SPICES AUSTIN, TEXAS 7W/31 512 453-1533 Send me your list. Name Street City Zip THE TEXAS OBSERVER 21