Homeowners Get 5000 Dollar Mandatory Tax Cut
San Felipe Del Rio district officials face clarity after August 31 on new tax relief enacted last November. All homeowners receive a $5000 homestead deduction and rental properties are included. Elderly and disabled get up to $10000, replacing prior 3000 limits. Personal vehicles and intangible personal property are removed from tax rolls. Tax notices go out October 1.
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San Felipe del Rio Consolidated
Walter Block
Block
Title IX Complaint Cleared for San Felipe CISD Girls Athletics
Superintendent Poole said a Dallas Civil Rights Office investigation found no basis for a 1974 Title IX discrimination claim against the district's girls basketball program. Final report due soon. The district faces potential impact aid reductions and discussed accreditation, council renewal, and a school renovation contract.
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Sheila Davis
News-Herald
San Felipe del Rio Consolidated Independent School
O.B. Poole
Board of Education
Dallas
George Cole
Texas
Webworms Spread Prompts City Spraying Call
County Extension Agent Rex Stultz warned of a growing webworm problem affecting mulberry walnut and pecan trees. He urged immediate homeowner spraying with Levin or Malathion, following container directions and adding soap flakes or ammonia to help the chemicals stick and break the webs. The Mignonette Garden Club previously sponsored a $1 per tree spraying program funded by participants, with city workers applying the treatment this spring after rains renewed worm activity.
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Rex Stultz
Stultz
Mignonette Garden Club
Garden Club
Oil Decontrol Write-In Set
A Dallas area National Write Your Congressman Club ballot will feature oil decontrol as a July opinion topic. Del Rio resident Leon Humphreys received a letter from club official David Adamson acknowledging a May 27 News-Herald article by John Carroll.
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del Rio
Leon Humphreys
David Adamson
Dallas
News-Herald
Phillip Arledge
Phreys
John Carroll
Adamson
Weather outlook for Del Rio area through Wednesday
Partly cloudy and warm through Wednesday with a low tonight in the low 70s and a high in the mid 90s. Southeast winds 15 to 20 mph today, 10 to 15 mph tonight. Monday’s high 92 with a morning low near 75. All time date highs and lows are 105 and 57. Year-to-date rainfall 11 inches, 3.35 inches above normal. Sunset 8:45 p.m., sunrise 6:44 a.m.
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del Rio
Amistad Elevation and Flow Stand Steady From Monday
Amistad elevation this morning matched Monday at 1120.11 feet with water depth steady at 220.14 feet. Storage unchanged at 3,713,537 acre feet and water surface area 67,517 acres. Downstream flow remained at 2,710 cubic feet per second.
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Amistad
Del Rio Leads in Sales Tax Rebates Jump
Del Rio reports an 18 percent year to date rise in sales tax rebates, increasing from 292 30167 to 346 63259, outpacing Eagle Pass which rose 11 percent. June 1979 rebates show Del Rio at 110 75303 versus Eagle Pass 100 13575, with other towns like Rocksprings Crystal City Carrizo Springs Brackettville Uvalde Sonora also posting varied gains and declines. Overall Texas cities collected 218 million in the first six months of the year from the one percent city sales tax, per State Comptroller Bob Bullock.
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Matt Prichard
News-Herald
del Rio
Eagle Pass
Comptroller's Office
Rio Grande
Crystal City
Carrizo
Springs
Carrizo Springs
Brackettville
Uvalde
Sonora
Texas
Bob Bullock
Bullock
Amistad Gets Tentative Okay to Expand Services
Amistad Airlines gains tentative approval from the Texas Aeronautics Commission to expand service to Beeville, with Del Rio and San Antonio already in operation. A show-cause window of 15 days will determine if a hearing is needed before final certificate action.
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Amistad
DAN Bus News-Herald
Texas Aeronautics Commission
Amistad Airlines
Beeville
del Rio International
San Antonio International
The
San Antonio
del Rio
Texas Air
Robbie Daniels
Intelligence Sector Command of
Pacific
B.R
Preacher and
PeeWee
Pollocks vacation in Del Rio and wedding reminiscence
The column notes Mr and Mrs William Pollock spent the weekend in Del Rio as guests of Mr and Mrs John A Faribault after leaving Oak Ridge Tennessee. It recalls Mrs Pollock as a former University of Tennessee student and maid of honor at a Mississippi wedding. The item introduces local social happenings and community notices from Del Rio.
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William Pollock
Oak Ridge
Tenn
del Rio
John A. Faribault
Rabies scare spans Eagle Pass as boy fights infection
In Eagle Pass Mexico authorities order to shoot or poison stray animals as Gerardo Castano aged 8 tests positive for rabies at the CDC in Atlanta. He remains in critical condition at Santa Rosa Medical Center with treatment including respirator support and intravenous care. Hospital staff receive rabies vaccines and heightened safeguards as doctors monitor signs of recovery amid a deadly disease.
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San Antonio, Texas
Piedras Negras
Mexico
National Center For Disease Control
Atlanta
Gerardo Castano
Eagle Pass
Santa Rosa Medical Center
William Winkler
CDC
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