Ethics Bill To Be Heard Monday In Austin
A Texas ethics measure faces House State Affairs Committee action Monday night amid disputes over who must disclose holdings and income. Atty. Gen. Hill argues the bill is constitutional, while Rep. Larry Bales and Randall Wood push to broaden who is covered beyond high earners. They seek combining salary with decision making power and including officials appointed by boards.
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Austin
Tex
House State Affairs Committee
John Hill
Larry Bales
Randall Wood
Common Cause
Hill
Bales
Wood
Atty
Crawford Martin
Swan Song Meaning Extends From Birds To Art
The text notes that coots propel legs backward in diving, while other birds push feet forward then up and outward to fold behind. It explains the origin of the term swan song as a prehistoric belief in a dying swan’s song and its modern use to denote an artist’s final work or an era’s end.
Pentecostal Experience Report From Paris Ill Miraculous Gift
A speaker recounts a Pentecostal baptism in Paris Illinois where the Holy Spirit enabled speaking in tongues and prophesy. The witness describes being overcome by divine power, falling prone, and delivering a language later interpreted by her husband. She cites Acts 2 37 38 and Acts 19 6 predicting the second coming.
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Peter
Joel
Paris
Ill
Jesus
Last Grandson Of Houston Dies Friday
Richard C. Houston 78, last surviving grandson of Sam Houston, died Friday in a Woodward hospital after a long illness. He was born in Canadian, Texas, moved to Woodward early, served in the Oklahoma Legislature, and was a former secretary of the Woodward County Election Board. Survivors include a son, a sister in San Antonio, and three grandchildren. Services set for 2 p.m. at Stecher Mortuary Chapel with burial in Elmwood Cemetery.
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Woodward, Okla
Richard C
Dick’’ Houston
Sam Houston
Movement For
Houston
Woodward Hospital
Canadian
Tex
Woodward
Oklahoma
Woodward County
Oklahoma State Tax Commission
Richard T. Houston
Oklahoma City
Mary Henderson
San Antonio
Stecher Mortuary Chapel
Elmwood Cemetery
Drs Lele Speak On India At BaPW Meeting
Dr Geeta Lele and husband Dr Eknath Lele spoke on customs and industries of India at a BaPW Club meeting. The event at Central Christian Church included a covered-dish meal and remarks by committee chair Miss Christine Menefee.
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Geeta Lele
Eknath Lele
India
Drs. Lele
Christine Menefee
Fern Maddox
Jeanne Blair
Central Christian Church
Lois Stiner
Vernon
Childress
Amarillo
B&pw Club
Mattie Lou Meinzer
Hermione Tobolowsky
B&pw
Mmes
Ida Smith
Annie Ruth Bell
Jewell Glover
Velma Gross
Alyeen Feely
Carrie Lee Stewart
Abilene
Drs
Lele
Nixon earns Heart of the Year award from American Heart Association
President Nixon received the Heart of the Year medallion for supporting voluntary health programs against heart and blood vessel diseases. The award, presented by Dr. Paul Yu, honors taxpayers and medical volunteers and pays tribute to Lyndon Johnson and Dwight Eisenhower who died from heart disease. The piece also notes Bill Graham meeting with former prisoners of war and Sen. John C. Stennis’s improving condition after a Jan 31 street holdup attack.
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Associated Press
Washington
Nixon
American Heart Association
Heart Association
Paul Yu
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Portsmouth
Bill Graham
Portsmouth Naval Hospital
Graham
Jeremiah Denton
Paul E. Galanti
James Mulligan
William Tschudy
John C. Stennis
Walter Reed Medical Center
Stennis
Northwest
Kahane forms Christians for Moses protest group
Rabbi Meir Kahane of the JDL announces a new Christians for Moses group aimed at missionary activity by non Jewish Americans. The plan features meetings in homes and outreach outside embassies to stress the Old Testament while not converting.
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Meir Kahane
Jewish Defense League
JDL
Christians For Moses
Kahane
JCL
Aged and Blind in the United States
Encyclopaedia Britannica reports over 350000 blind Americans, more than half are aged 65 or older. The statistic highlights the aging demographic within blindness surveys and the need for age-targeted services.
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United States
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Texas sees new construction contract record in early 1940s report
The Texas Contractor reports a record 306 651 816 in new construction contracts for January and February with 179 800 785 in February alone. Major awards include 23 307 250 to Algernon Blair for Fort Hood barracks, 18 million to Bount Bros. for a Houston doctors center, and other large sums for UT Austin, Texas Tech library, and Austin Northeast High School.
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Dallas
Texas
Algernon’ Blair
Montgomery
Ala
Fort Hood
Killeen
Bount Bros. of
Houston
Doctors Center
HLA. Lott Inc
College of Education
University of Texas
Austin
H.C. Lewis
Lubbock
Texas Tech
Robert C. Gray
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White House
Executive Mansion
Davis
Jerusalem
U.S
Northeast High School
Mordecai Manuel Noah Pees
Tunis
James Madison
Sale
S-M-L
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