Texas Legislature adjourns amid budget powers and new agency
Gov. Preston Smith maintained uncertainty over a possible extra special session while the fourth session passed about 30 measures. Legislation granted him an emergency fund for budget crises and review power, plus funding for Texas Tech and UT medical schools, a Fort Worth school for mentally retarded students, and other appropriations. The report notes court actions, new test locations for auto mechanics, a 24 member state teachers commission, juvenile defense rulings, fire ant control, and various state notices.
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Preston Smith
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Fort Worth
Federal Aviation Agency
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League City
Third Court of Civil Appeals
H. D. Nicholson
Charles Mathews
Attorney General's Office
Mathews
U. S. Supreme Court
Travis County
Fort Worth County
John White
Environmental Protection Agency
White
Dare to Be Great courses face court actions in Florida
Florida promoter Glen Turner fights multiple lawsuits over his Dare to Be Great self-motivated course. He claims the programs help Americans achieve success while authorities and detractors see risk and press court action. The piece argues there are many such courses and speculates on a world overrun by supers.
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Florida
Glen Turner
Turner
George McGovern
Former pastor dies in St. Louis
The Rev. John McNamara, former assistant pastor of St. Theresa Catholic Church, died Sunday at 4:45 p.m. at the La Salette Missionaries House in St. Louis Missouri from a heart attack. A funeral mass was held in St. Louis and the body flown to New York for burial after an October 19 mass at St. Marys Church Kingston.
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John McNamara
St. Theresa Catholic Church
la Salette
St. Louis
New York
St. Mary's Church
Kingston
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Father McNamara
Albany
N. Y
St. Theresa's
Gladewater
Jasper, Sulphur and
Hackberry
Mac
D. F. Simpson dies. services held. two clergy remembered
Bryan Frank Simpson 76 of Union Grove died Monday after a lengthy illness. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at Malcolm Stone Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. Herman Reagh officiating. Burial in Medral Park. He was a WWI veteran, Baptist, survived by wife Bertie and brother Ernest of Houston.
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Bryan Frank Simpson
Union Grove
Malcolm Stone
Herman Reagh
Union Grove Baptist Church
Medral Park
Simpson
Anniston
Ala
The
Baptist Church
Bertie
Ernest Simpson
Houston
Emma Isbell
Gilmer
T. W. Moughon
City
Lloyd Funeral Home
W. J. Halpen
Walnut Creek Cemetery
Isbell
Upshur County
Diana Methodist Church
Joyce Phillips
Crear Watson
Women teach self reliance with handy home skills
A Dallas feature highlights women who teach peers to do tasks themselves from appliance repairs to writing checks and paying bills. It notes rising female patent activity around 15 percent and cites Paula Ricci’s electric wallpaper paster among other design innovations by women.
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Lawrence Peska
Raymond Lee Organization, Inc
United States
Texas
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