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many months before Jane learned of the tragedy. She had prom-statewide. Following hearings in Austin. Dallas and Houston, the Board agreed to grant a 14 percent hike. Insurance Board staff 1 ecoinmended 14 percent.Companies contend that “die use of a 25 percent limitation oirate increases by coverage, classification and territory, without a specific allowance for catastrophic, results in confiscatory rate's . . . which is not in keeping with the Texas Insurance Code. ’Registration to Reopen Voter registration is due to reopen for the month of February.legislature passed a bill to extend the signup beyond Jan. 51, and Gov Preston Smith signed it into law.Sen, Joe J. Bernal of San Antonio, who sponsored the measure, said that the bill shows the l egislature's good faith by getting in line with the Federal court decision. It threw out the annual voter registration requirement and criticized the gap between the end of the registration period and the election date.A constitutional amendment proposal to wipe out Texas annua.! registration requirement by stat * action and other bil?s to nu-tt orizo a registration--by-votingsystem are now pending in theLegislature Main argument a I km* the latter is over whether registration should be for a twoor four year period.Short Snorts Texas Water DevelopmentBoard authorized the sale of $25million in development bonds,w ih bids to be ope nod Feb. 24, Secretary of Agriculture ad-\ r. t d tin* Texas State Department of Health of its intentions to take over the meat inspection program in 15 states, including lexas, uniess scvlt;;ral packinghouses meet Federal standardssoon.House committee studying con-gre sional and legislative redis-tncHng plans a scries of state-wid* hearings for “local advice.”A record number of 31.6 million vi.i s were longed at Tex ‘ s tourist attractions duringm;1Reminder: Auto -registrationlen wa1 season op'-i ed Feb. L So it h e B ink . n I Trust pro-1 os a bank at Sbarpsto vn Cen-t r, Houston; Arcadia is the pro-p. d si • ioi a no w Santa Ft*State Bankfinally in Richmond. Ail were towns along the Brazos River. She received a grant of land under the colonization law and lived comfortably in her cld age.General Long had mortgaged Kian, the faithful Negro maid, to raise money for his second Texas expedition. A few years after Jane had settled in Texas, the man who held tlie mortgagedemanded his money. Jane wa unable to raise the amount andhad to let Kian go to settle tindebt. The sparation was a painful one. Kach loved the othlt; r and felt they had been through too much together to be separated, except in death. Jane was operating a boarding house to earn her living and tried to save enough money to buy back her fmihfu] friend. It was r-'po to do so. Then Genera! Feck, a friend of her late hu band, and her good friend, heard the story and bought Kian back again for her happy mistress. Never was there a more joyous reunion.Many noted men of Texas slopped at Jane's boarding housewhere they recci\ ed excellent*feed and basked in her warm hospitality She was a handsome woman and had many offers of marriage but her heart remained true to General Long. The first powder for the Texas Revolution was stored in a brick outhouse owned bv Jane. MirabeaurB. Lamar was boarding at herplace when he left for revolutionary service. He asked her to keep his valuable papers and his money until he returned. Lamar talked to Jane many times about her unusual life and that of her husband, and later wrote a history about them. It is included in Volume II of “Lamar Papers.”The love that Jane had forKian, the faithful Negro woman who had served her since a child it an example of the affectionate and strong ties that manymistresses and servants held for each other in that generation. When the older Kian died, her granddaughter, another faithful but younger Kian, took over the ciulics in the Long ! lt;me. When Jane was old and feeble and con-f.ntd to her bed in her last illness she told Kian that she was ready to go * 1 have tried to do iny duty all my liic,“ she said. The n siie took Kicn's hand and n ad * a request. “When 1 die* I want you to bathe and dress me and lay no* out.' This Kian promised, and faithfully and lov-u gly did when Jane Long died.
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Albany News
Albany, Texas, US
Thu, Feb 25, 1971
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