Special Session Fails to Resolve Texas Budget Battle
Governor Preston Smith calls a second session after the first ends Aug. 26 without a budget or tax bill. Deadlock centers on sales tax coverage for beer, liquor, and food while House and Senate trade barbs and late hours permits rise in wet counties. News also notes Sadler censure vote, and UIL transfer rule study.
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Vern Sanford
Texas Press Association
Austin
Preston Smith
Ben Barnes
House
Gus Mutscher
Texas
Smith
Texas Liquor Control Board
State Liquor Control Board
Sadler
House of Representatives
Jerry Sadler
Frances Farenthold
Corpus Christi
Padre Island
Interschiolastic League
University Interscholastic League
Bill Swanson
Houston
Swanson
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Public Letters Call for Protests Over School Prayer Ruling
Readers urged to write NASA Director in Houston to protest Madalyn Murray O Hair linked to bans on prayer and Bible readings in schools. Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce seeks 300000 letters by Oct 5 to influence the federal case.
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Madalyn Murray O'Hair
Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce
O'Hair
Junior Chamber of Commerce
NASA, Space Center
Houston
Texas
Texas Humor Column Lays Out Quick Jabs
Wick Fowler pokes at water quality taxes crime and riot apathy with satirical barbs. He jokes that Texas would profit from sunken galleons and that golfers may face brown fees if water woes persist while noting rising living costs and burglary rates. The piece blends politics sports and daily life in a pointed city column.
Alpine hosts productive West Texas Chamber meeting
West Texas Chamber of Commerce board of directors met in Alpine August 13 15 for a highly successful mid-summer session. Mayor Homer Hudgins received letters praising the arrangements and the Quota Buster Club breakfast. Also noted are Eastman Kodak’s guide to America’s National Parks and Dr Ross Maxwell’s retirement from Texas geology work. Judge James W McClendon lauded Avalanche value and received UT law honorary degree.
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West Texas Chamber of Commerce
Alpine
Homer Hudgins
WTCC
Ralph E. Duncan
Abilene
Hugh White
Eastman Kodak Company
America
Michael Frome
Big Bend National Park
Frome
Texas-Mexico
Chisos Mountains
Ross Maxwell
Austin
Maxwell
University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology
West Texas
Big Bend
Brewster County
National Park Service
Arizona
Colorado
New Mexico
Nevada
Oklahoma
Texas
Utah
Can
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James W. McClendon
Avalanche
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University of Texas Law School
U.S. Savings Bonds & Freedom Shares
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Jean Glasscock
Robert J. Glasscock
Robert Kitchen
Alpine Avalanche
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Big Bend Abstract Co
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