Speaker Likely To Name Joint Panels Shortly
Durwood Manford said he will complete appointments this week for several joint committees and code commissions. Governors Shivers Morris and Manford named members for the insurance study group. Morris also names Senate members of the Legislative Council and Budget Board Committee.
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G. C. Morris
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New Legislative Council
Budget Board
Leave Council
Svadienak Pushes Selling State Hospital Land for New Facilities
Rep Fran Svadienak of Thrall argues Texas could fund modern hospital buildings by selling surplus urban land such as the 478 acres around Austin State Hospital. He says proceeds could finance new facilities without new taxes and move care into rural sites, with plans to push the idea in the next legislature.
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Associated Press
Fran Svadienak
Thrall
Texas
Svadienak
Austin
House Committee On Revenue and Taxation
Austin State Hospital
Guadalupe Street
Dallas-Fort Worth
State Hospital
Austin Hospital
Allan Shivers
House Members Among 37 Taking Bar Examinations
The Austin American Capitol Staff notes 37 candidates taking state bar exams this week. Among them are House members J K Aynesworth Hiram Staton and others from Waco Amarillo Archer City Palestine Wichita Falls Beaumont Abilene. They reportedly spent 171 days this year in the House passing laws and many attended the University of Texas law school.
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House of Representatives
University of Texas Law School
House
Waco
J. K. Aynesworth
Hiram Staton
J. Blake Timmons
Amarillo
Jimmy P Horany
Archer City
John B. McDonald
Palestine
Vernon McDaniel
Wichita Falls
Jack Brooks
Beaumont
W. K. Tippen
Abilene
Texas Cools Off With Unusual July Weather Across State
A persistent cool air mass over the Southeast has kept Texas temperatures unusually mild since July 23. Highs stayed in the 70s to 80s with many clouds and showers, avoiding last years extreme heat as a cooling front moved from the Pacific Northwest and stalled over the southern states.
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John Zimmerman
Dallas Weather Bureau
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Nueces
Rio Grande
Pacific Northwest
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Tennessee
Carolinas
Florida
Walls came a lecture on evictions in Westerly
Landlord William Staplin began tearing down a two story house to evict occupants William Cook 70 and his son George 41 who refused to move Gordon Cook 4 was jailed 10 days for abusive language. Staplin continued destruction while tenants protested debris from upper walls.
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William Cook
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