Texas lawmakers push open container ban in drive for DWI reform
In Austin several bills seek to ban open containers in moving vehicles and curb drinking while driving. Rep. Gary Thompson and Sen. Bill Sarpalius lead proposals to outlaw open containers and raise the drinking age to 21, amid public support and federal pressure to tighten drunk driving laws.
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Austin
Texas
Gary Thompson
Abilene
Pexas
Thompson
Texas Alcoholic Beverage ‘ Commission
Bill Sarpalius
D-Canyon
Sarpalius
Ray Keller
Duncanville
Alcoholic Beverage Commission
Americans volunteer in Nicaragua coffee fields
In Managua hills Shirley Burlingame 65 and about 80 other senior volunteers from Northern California join 600 North Americans and hundreds more in Europe and elsewhere to pick coffee and cotton for three weeks. They work on a state farm south of Managua amid shortages due to manpower, inflation, draft, and guerrilla activity.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Shirley Burlingame
California
Berkeley
Europe
Central America
Citizen Brigade
Burlingame
Sebastopol
Calif
U.S
Lone Star Texas video history documentary by KEDT TV
Corpus Christi AP reports KEDT TV plans an eight hour national PBS documentary on Texas history titled Lone Star A Television History of Texas. The $750000 project, inspired by T R Fehrenbach, will air in eight parts starting in October. Filming from San Antonio to Port Isabel covers Palo Duro Canyon Caddo Lake Dallas Houston King Ranch and East Texas forests. Fehrenbach serves as chief consultant as crews document Texas from land to mystique to modern politics and today.
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Corpus Christi
Kedt-Tv
Public Broadcasting
PBS
Qober
Lone Star
Texas
Paul Pope
KEDT
Pope
Corpus Christi University
T.R. Fehrenbach
Fehrenbach
Authority On
San Antonio
Texline
Panhandle
Port Isabel
Rio Grande Valley
Roy Hammond
Palo Duro
Canyon
Caddo Lake
Dallas
Houston
King Ranch
Baytown School District Holds Textbook Hearing January 31
A public hearing on textbooks for adoption in mathematics and English for grades 1-8, mathematics and Spanish for grades 1-5, Spanish Kindergarten through sixth, introductory biology, biology 1 and 2, business data processing, and computer programming will take place at 3 45 p m January 31 at the school administration building 1415 Market. The committee plans district adoption in February with a board vote expected March 11 and parents may inspect texts at the Media Center 200 Stimson and at school sites for teacher review.
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Baytown
Market
Media Center
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San Jacinto Mall
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St. Mark's Methodist Church
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