Lawmaking Bargain Costs Texas Legislature Daily
The Texas Legislature runs at about seven thousand dollars a day while lawmakers tackle a forty six million dollar deficit. Comptroller Calvert estimates total session costs near one point three million as senators and representatives push an ambitious departmental appropriation bill. Some observers deem this session stronger than the 1947 meeting despite unfinished business and financial worries.
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Senate
House
Robert F. Calvert
Texas
Statehouse
Calvert
Beaumont Council Seeks To End Strike
Beaumont City Council urged resumption of peace talks in the 20 day bus strike that also affects Port Arthur. Mayor Otho Plummer said new conferences could happen within 24 hours as a final effort, with a federal conciliator reporting no immediate breakthrough after discussions with labor and management.
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Beaumont
Otho Plummer
Port Arthur
Spouse of Tokyo Rose Allowed to Stay
The husband of Tokyo Rose, Filip Jairus d Aquino, 28, may remain in the United States for four months under a $1,000 bond after a two day hearing. He was detained on arrival from the Orient for routine investigation due to paper defects. Tokyo Rose, 33, Mrs Iva Ivuko Toguri d Aquino, faces treason trial in San Francisco July 5 for wartime propaganda broadcasts.
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Seattle
Tokyo Rose
L. W. Williams
Filip Jairus d’Aquino
Orient
Iva Ivuko Toguri d’Aquino
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Japan
Oil Refinery Shipped to Augusta Sicily from Longview
A complete oil refinery formerly the Danciger Refinery in Longview, Texas, is being loaded onto a ship in Houston for its new home in Augusta Sicily. The Italian company Raffanerie Sinciliane Olii Minerali of Italy, with two representatives at the site, supervises the operation. The shipment includes 22 storage tanks.
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Houston
INS
Augusta
Sicily
Danciger
Longview
Raffanerie Sinciliane Olii Minerali
Italy
Jester Signs Secret Ballot Stub Measure
The Texas League of Women Voters achieved its eight year goal as Governor Beauford H. Jester signed a bill letting Texans vote with a detachable ballot stub for secrecy. Voters will sign the stub on the back, drop the ballot in a box, and a district clerk will hold the sealed stub box for 60 days before burning contents unless a contest is filed.
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Texas League of Women Voters
Beauford H. Jester
Jester
Doyle Willis
League of Women Voters of Texas
51St Legislature
Texas
Martin A. Row
Dallas
League
Row
William Y. Penn
Midland
League of Women Voters
John J. Perry
Sweetwater
Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs
May Jones
Tarleton Station
American Association of University Women
J. H. Moore
Deport
Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers
Charley Ward
Houston
Texas Federated Business and Professional Women’s Club
Willis
Keith Kelly
Fort Worth
Senate
Allan Shivers
Ed Kilman
Senate Rejects Guard Leave Amendments in Senate Bill
The Senate refused to accept House amendments on a bill granting state employees paid leave to attend National Guard camps. A joint conference was requested to resolve differences. The measure would allow two weeks of regular vacation plus time off for Guard training, with Texas A&M College contending a $70,000 annual cost.
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Senate
Carlos Ashley
Llano
Texas A&m College
Sammy Cuptill Dies After Cowboy Dream
Six year old Sammy Cuptill of Big Horn Montana died after leukemia treatment in Billings. Doctors said the illness would prove fatal within months. Friends had raised funds to buy him a pony, hoping to spare his dream long enough to ride.
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Billings
Mont
Sammy Cuptill
Jack Cuptill
Big Horn
Sammy
G A Reform Printed Volumes Circulate as Queries Rise
Representative George Nokes of Corsicana distributed specially printed volumes detailing Gilmer Aikin school reform ills while school officials pressed for interpretation. Floyd Bradshaw of Weatherford showed a page of questions on attendance and crippled classes as lawmakers seek clarifications and a clearing house for inquiries follows. A forthcoming bill by Dene A. Tufares of Wichita Falls aims to clarify the election clause in Senate Bill 115.
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Austin American Capitol
George Nokes
Corsicana
Gilmer-Aikin
Floyd Bradshaw
Weatherford
House
Dene A. Tufares
Wichita Falls
Governor Jester OKs bills raising judges pay and council study
Governor Beauford Jester signed bills including a judges pay raise from 6 000 to 7 000 for district judges and 8 000 to 10 000 for civil appeals justices. He also approved a Legislative Council bill to study laws between sessions and a tax remission measure extending ad valorem tax relief to Brazos River and coastal agencies over two years. He allocated 4 200 000 for state junior colleges and urged interim studies on higher education water conservation and tax structure.
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Legislative Council
Beauford H. Jester
Criminal Appeals Court
Supreme Court
Doyle Willis
Fort Worth
R. L
Bob
House
Senate
Brazos River Conservation and Reclamation District
Jester
Texas
State Land Bids Studied by Board
The State school land board reviewed high bids totaling 649 323 for mineral leases on land tracts across 26 counties. Bids opened Tuesday. about 127 000 acres offered but many tracts received no bids. Leases awarded after board study. Counties include Cochran Crane Live Oak Loving Ward Pecos Reeves Upton Wheeler Howard Roberts Stephens Aransas Calhoun Brazoria Chambers Galveston Jackson Fort Bend DeWitt Goliad Hutchinson Refugio San Patricio Jim Wells Nueces.
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State School Land Board
Bascom Giles
Cochran
Crane
Live Oak
Loving
Ward
Pecos
Reeves
Upton
Wheeler
Howard
Roberts Stephens
Aransas
Calhoun
Brazoria
Chambers
Galveston
Jackson
Fort Bend
DeWitt
Goliad
Hutchinson Refugio
San Patricio
Jim Wells
Neuces
Yellowstone Park Size Compared to Rhode Island
The article states Mammoth National Park, Yellowstone, covers two and a half times the area of Rhode Island. It emphasizes vast park dimensions and uses Rhode Island as a measuring reference to illustrate scale.
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Mammoth National Park
Yellowstone National Park
Rhode Island
Missing Plane Search Shifts to Arkansas
A wrecked plane report in river bottom lands near Saratoga Arkansas moved the missing Texas aircraft search to Arkansas Tuesday. T. C. Elkins and his nephew pilot Ben Ferguson, both of Stephenville Texas, had been missing since May 29 after leaving Hot Springs for Stephenville. Elkins’ sons set up headquarters at Prescott Arkansas to help. Governor Jester issued a four state alarm and Arkansas National Guard planes joined Civil Air Patrol in the search.
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Ark
Saratoga
Texas
Arkansas
Here
T. C. Elkins
Ben Ferguson
Stephenville
Hot Springs
Elkins
Joe
Gene Elkins
Prescott
Austin
Beauford H. Jester
Arkansas National Guard
McMath
Civil Air Patrol
Trinity Valley Dairy Development Growth Highlighted
In Cleveland on June 7 the Trinity Valley dairy industry is praised for growing from a small station to a half million dollar business in nine years Publisher Manthey of the Cleveland Advocate notes the Seventh Annual Dairy Day as the standout event in the region s dairy history The association also includes soil conservation flood control and Trinity River navigation in its development program.
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Cleveland
Trinity Valley
J. H. Manthey Jr
Manthey
The
Cleveland Advocate
Forward Trinity Valley Association
Trinity River
General Lucius D. Clay Invited for Texoma Visit
Retired US military governor General Lucius D. Clay was invited to visit Lake Texoma, a dam project he directed as an Army engineer ten years ago. The Texoma Sportsmen Club extended the invitation, with support from Texas Governor Beauford Jester and Oklahoma Governor Roy Turner.
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Lucius D. Clay
Germany
Lake
Texoma
Clay
Texas
Oklahoma
Beauford Jester
Roy Turner
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