Indirect Nepotism Sparks Texas Legislature Reform
A Crawford Martin opinion bans hiring relatives of legislators, prompting calls to drop related employees and new limits on expense accounts. Gov. Preston Smith vows no new taxes, while revenue sharing eyed for Texas cities and counties amid drought and oil production adjustments.
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Scouts and Girl Scouts Plan Milam Area Litter Drive
In Milam area both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts will join a one day litter clean up on April 29. More than 200 Scouts and adult leaders will comb Tejas District communities assisted by Girl Scouts. Homer Bower, acting district chairman, says people are the villains in litter and must change to help prevent it.
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Expansion News Highlights Growth Across Cameron
The article notes numerous new construction efforts including a colonial nursing home expansion. A new wing will extend the existing building as Cameron enters a broad building boom. Drivers see development in nearly every neighborhood and town life quickens with ongoing projects citywide.
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France Draws Master Plan For Rhone River Waterway
Paris outlines a 195 million dollar plan to join the Rhone and Rhine into a continuous waterway from the North Sea to the Mediterranean. The project includes Fos port growth, a Fos refinery and petrochemical complex, and a million-ton tanker capacity, with 160000 jobs forecast by 1983.
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Orchids grown by new system in Taipei lab
In a climate controlled lab on Mount Yanming, Lin Jung Jsien known as the King of Orchids directs a female staff growing taiwanese orchids. The 65 year old engineer turned hort iculturist owns about a million plants at White Cloud Villa and developed mericlone propagation from meristem tissue with help from Dr Georges Morel. The work traces back to his Tokyo hobby starting in 1961 and a shift to orchid research after acquiring techniques for incubating plant cells in flasks.
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Nervous breakdown toll rises in Londonderry amid war fears
In Londonderry, noncombatants suffer rising nervous disorders as IRA and British troops clash daily. Dr Donal MacDermott notes families of fighters bear the heaviest burden with nightmares, bedwetting, stomach issues, and widespread anxiety across 65 000 residents.
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Greek Monuments Suffer From Restoration Work
Athens University professor Theodore Skoulikides warns that iron clamps cement and modern restoration methods may damage Greece's priceless monuments including the Parthenon. His new book Applied Electrochemistry critiques restoration practices that rely on iron and cement.
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Temple Junior College announces 1972 summer schedule
registrar Charles Stout announced the Temple Junior College summer term with June 5 registration and classes June 6 to July 14 in three morning blocks. tuition mirrors regular semester rates and offerings include biology chemistry economics Cobol and more.
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