State Board Cuts Texas Budget by Millions Across Departments
The Texas State Board of Control reduces appropriation requests from 39.9 million to 25.5 million for the next two years, slashing funding across eleemosynary and educational departments. Notable cuts include the Pardon Board, several colleges, insane asylums, and university programs, while some agencies retain near-unchanged or modestly trimmed budgets.
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Austin
Texas
State Board of Control
House
Pardon Board of Advisers
Board of Control
Department of State
Agricultural and Mechanical College
John Tarleton Agricultural College
Stephenville
Grubbs’ Vocational College
Arlington
National Guard
Adjutant General
Attorney General’s Department
State Treasury Department
Department of Education
State
State Department of Insurance and Banking
Comptroller's Department
State Board of Health
North Texas
Terrell
San Antonio
Mase Texas
Rusk
Abilene
Corsicana
Gainesville
Gatesvill
St Austin
Carlsbad
Hospital For Crippled Children
Galveston
Negro, Deaf, Dumb and Blind Institute
North Texas Normal
West Texas Normal
Canyon
East Texas Normal
Comerce
Sul Ross Normal
Alpine
Texas School For the Deaf
Texas School For the Blind
Department of Agriculture
College Station
Farmers’ Institute
A. & M. College
Trade with Germany increased in 1920
Washington reports American trade with Germany for 1920 totalled 400.3 million dollars, up from 103.8 million in 1919, according to a Commerce Department review released today.
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Germany
Washington
Department of Commerce
Pershing urges strong army and navy program
General Pershing in a Naval Committee hearing urged continuing the United States army and navy buildup while supporting a world disarmament conference. He warned against Pacific unpreparedness and said the five great powers should reach a different agreement before altering current programs.
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Associated Press
Washington
House
Naval Committee
General Pershing
United States
Government limits liquor permits to manufacturers and druggists
Attorney General today limited the federal authority to issue withdrawals of liquor in bonded warehouses to manufacturers and wholesale druggists. The ruling also restricts permits of disposition to wholesale distributors and manufacturers.
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Associated Press
Washington
Harding backs voluntary military training plan
Washington news reports President elect Harding supports legislation for voluntary military training up to 150,000 men annually, as stated by House Military Committee Chairman Kahn in a speech kicking off the effort to block proposed reductions.
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Associated Press
Washington
Harding
Kahn
House Military Committee
Mrs. Harding Chooses White House Wardrobe Pieces
Mrs. Harding began selecting the White House clothes as future first lady, hosting a hotel suite campaign for gowns fabrics hats and jewels at the Ritz Carlton. She preferred blue evening and tea gowns and emphasized American made jewels with colonial cameos.
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Associated Press
New York
White House
Harding
Fifth Avenue
Ritz-Carlton
First Lady of the
Tariff Bill Fails on Cloture Vote in Senate
Washington reports the emergency tariff bill failed to reach the required two thirds when cloture was voted on. The Senate split thirty six in favor and thirty five against, denying the measure.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Bryan High Stops Baptist Academy Streak at A and M Gym
Bryan High School defeated San Marcos Baptist Academy 20 to 10 at Texas A and M college gym. Captain Milton Dansby missed the game with an old injury, likely out for the season. Bryan High travels to Tabor Friday for a county championship elimination game.
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San Marcos Baptist Academy
Allen Academy
Bryan High School
A. & M. College
Bryan
Academy
Milton Dansby
Hudson
Dansby
Bryan Academy
S. Pate
Seymour N. Dansby
Young Kelly E
Chumney
Lurner
Calvert Wilcox
Dawson
A. Pate
Crawford
Bethea
Bryan High
Tabor
Energetic Protests Filed Against Proposed Oil Tax
In Mexico City on February 2 the association of petroleum producers presented formal objections to the government’s oil tax proposal to Treasury Secretary Adolfo De La Huerta. The committee called it the most energetic protest yet, charging subterfuge and alleging exporting firms face arbitrary official maneuvers by finance officials.
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Associated Press
Mexico City
Adolfo de la Huerta
Treasury
Association of Producers of Petroleum In
Mexico
Secretary of Finance
Dismantling of Bryan & Central Texas Railway Property Resumes
Purchasers prepare crews to tear up tracks and junk the Bryan & Central Texas Railway property. Court injunction paused work briefly, back taxes paid, material sold to Wichita Falls & Northwestern Railway for trackage into new Texas oil fields. J. I. Carson of Bryan leads construction.
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Bryan & Central Texas Railway
Wichita Falls & Northwestern Railway
New
Texas Oil Fields
J. I. Carson
Bryan
Government Sues For Crown Jewels In Exile Case
Vienna reports the National Assembly ordered the government to initiate legal action to claim title to the crown jewels sent abroad by former Emperor Charles. Charles refuses to recognize the republic’s rights to the jewels including the Florentine diamond owed to Italy under the peace treaty terms.
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Vienna
National Assembly
Charles
Italy
Tax penalty bill delay and relief commissioner bills in Texas
Austin reports that a tax penalty relief bill is not in effect until ninety days after adjournment due to lack of a two thirds vote. The measure would have reduced 1920 tax penalties and postponed delinquent lists until October 1921. Also filed are bills to declare Victory Day November 11 and create a relief commissioner for World War orphans and widows, plus a voting eligibility provision and a hotel keeper liability measure.
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Associated Press
Austin
Texas
Neff
American Legion
Rogers of
Collins
Senate
United States
Senate Committee On Civil
McNealus
West Texas A and M Furor Settled by Substitute Bill
Austin, Feb 2. West Texas lawmakers and A M College officials reach accord on a substitute bill to establish a West Texas Agricultural and Military College. The measure strips the governor of appointive power west of the 98th meridian, names a 640 acre site, funds land purchase and locating costs, and designates white male students with a commission to select the site. The bill envisions agriculture and military training with limited engineering. Passage expected with Governor Neff backing.
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Austin
Texas
West Texas Agricultural and Military College
West Texas
W. B. Bizzell
A. & M. College
98Th Meridian
House
Bryan
Neff
State Department of Agriculture
George B. Terrell
Department of Agriculture
Judge Landis Opens Baseball Headquarters in Chicago
Chicago February 2 Judge K M Landis head of baseball finds headquarters in a Michigan Avenue building suite and plans to announce a secretary selection in two or three weeks.
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Associated Press
Chicago
K. M. Landis
Michigan Avenue
Miss Katherine O Connell Returns to Palestine after Visit
Miss Katherine O Connell returns to Palestine after a delightful visit with Mrs. I C Warren at Edge Apartments.
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Katherine O’connell
Palestine
I. C. Warren
The
Edge Apartments
Eight Parties Now in Triest Politics
Trieste February 2 A bitter political struggle unfolds in Fiume as eight parties join the field for constitutional assembly elections due mid March. Mrs Harriet Marks of Dallas representing a lyceum course spoke before Bryar Woman's Club this afternoon and visited the Campus Study Club at College yesterday arranging a nine-attraction lyceum course through that club.
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Trieste
Fiume
Harriet Marks
Dallas
Lyceum
Bryar
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State Reclamation Department
Red River
Agricultural Department
Labor Department
State Industrial Welfare Commission
Board of Water Engineers
Industrial Accident Board
General Land Office
State Fire Insurance Commission
Live Stock Commission
Live Stock Sanitary Commission
Pure Food and Drug Department
Confederate Home
State Lunatic Asylum
State Pastner Institute
Insane Asylum
Southwestern Insane Asylum
University of Texas
Medical Branch
School of Mines
Medical College
College of Industrial Arts
Denton
Sam Houston Normal
Huntsville
Southwest Texas Normal
San Marcos
Manual Arts
Army and Navy
Mrs. Harding
Baptist Academy
West Texas A. & M
Judge Landis
Triest
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