Baytown to Get New Driver Test Station in 1968
Texas will require eye and ear exams for license renewals starting 1968 with photo ID. Baytown wins a state bid to house a full service DPS station on West Main, staffed by two men, two women, and a sergeant. The facility will serve Baytown and surrounding areas, reducing trips to Houston.
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Tax becomes 1 percent in 16 Texas towns
News reports that 16 Texas towns and cities approved a one percent municipal sales tax with broad margins in Tuesday special elections. Of 134 jurisdictions voting, 18 rejected the local option tax. Mansfield voted against 143 to 6. In Lower Rio Grande Valley towns, all approved. Example tallies include Edinburg 529 to 185, Harlingen 1677 to 895, Mission 589 to 251, Lamesa 577 to 128, McAllen 1406 to 496, Mercedes 291 to 73, and Roma 721 to 1. The tax narrowly failed in Mansfield.
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Hungary 3rd in divorces behind US and Romania
Budapest AP reports Hungary ranks third in the world divorce rate after the United States and Romania. For the first 16 months of the year Hungarian courts divorced about 20,000 couples, per MTI.
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