Texas updates safety responsibility law revisions
Texas revised the Safety Responsibility Act, effective January 7, requiring drivers involved in accidents with certain damage or injuries to report to the Department of Public Safety within 10 days. The changes raise license suspension periods, set new financial responsibility rules, bonding, and minimum insurance limits, and distinguish federal employee exemptions. The old law’s provisions and limits are listed for comparison.
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Texas
Department of Public Safety
Lamar Blvd
Austin Station
Austin
Othe Department
Jie Abe
South Africa Methodist Elects Negro President Mokitimi
The Rev. Mokitimi, first African elected president of the South Africa Methodist Church, takes post later this year. A 60 year old, under five feet tall, he advocates amity between blacks and whites in Hendrik Verwoerd’s racially segregated nation. Mokitimi, born in Basutoland in 1903, has led a broad church career including tenure as warden of the Bensonville Methodist Institution and extensive international travel.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Seth Mokitimi
Methodist Church
Hendrik Verwoerd
Dutch Reformed Church
Mokitimi
Austria
Toronto
United States
Bensonville Methodist Institution
Cape Province
Bor i
Basutoland
Tax cut seen as risky by some business leaders
New York dispatch reports a split view among U S business leaders on a federal income tax cut. Some fear inflation could negate benefits, while others see a potential surge in growth. Interviewees include Arnold Beekman of Beckman Instruments and Pollard Turman of JL M. Tull Metals Co, with others noting high rates hinder growth and calling for spending cuts alongside any tax relief.
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New York
Arnold O. Beekman
Beckman Instruments
Los Angeles
Pollard Turman
JL M. Tull Metals Co
Atlanta
John A. Barr
Chicago
Montgomery iWard “& Co
Barr
Makitimi
Methodist
Beckman
Fort Hare College
Africa
Cape Province
Havana talks seek US lard as Cuban purchase nears
A Fidel Castro government purchasing mission in Montreal negotiates with US firms for about 2 million dollars of lard. If successful, it would mark the largest movement of US goods to Cuba since prior food shipments tied to the Bay of Pigs prisoners. US officials have criticized Western nations for selling hard goods to Cuba while food and medicine exports face transportation hurdles and subsidy rules.
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Washington
Montreal
Canada
U.S
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Bay
Cuba Opens Talks With Shell Over Seized Havana Plant
Havana Radio reported that Cuba has taken initial steps to negotiate compensation with Shell Oil Co for the seizure of its Havana refinery in 1960. The government seized the Shell plant along with Esso and Texaco refineries after they refused a decree to refine Russian oil.
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Miami
Fla
Havana Radio
Shell’ Oil. Co
Havana
Fidel Castro
Shell
Esso
Texaco
Birmingham adopts one cent sales tax with exemption
The Birmingham City Council approved a one cent sales tax set to start March 1. An exemption for residents over 65 with annual income of 2000 dollars or less is included, but Finance Director Ben Winstead says the exemption renders the tax wholly unworkable.
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Birmingham
Ala
Birmingham ‘City
City Finance
Beny Winstead
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Sion
Black
Vexan
Decker
Sterling
Buck Turner
M.S. McCarty
California
Richard Mock
Gene Harman
McCarty
Chevrolet
W. Texes
South Africa Methodists
I Fidel
Chrysler
Chrysler Corporation
Chrysler Motors Corporation
Conias
Chrysler Dealers
Higginbotham Motor CO. Inc
Market Street
Baytown, Texas
Chrysler Motorg Corporariin
CIDAA
Sears Rubbuck
SEARS
Michigan
West Texas
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