State Capital Highlights from Texas special session
Legislators pressed a third week under Gov. Dolph Briscoe as tax relief and limits loom. Both houses passed rival sales tax repeal and inheritance tax exemption bills, heading to conference. Senate backed a productivity basis for ranch farm and timber land valuation amid farm family target debate. Briscoe urged fast action with a 30 day pace, or longer review. Oil industry demand and RR Commission set August production at 100 percent. Exxon and Amoco cited purchases aligning with actual needs. Crude imports stood at 7,862,000 barrels daily four week July average. next month nominations totaled 3,517,436, down from July. Also notes on MonticelloArk visitors and local family visits near Dallas.
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Dolph Briscoe
Texas Railroad Commission
Exxon
Amoco
Mack Wallace
Grand Saline Editorial Calls Merchants to Action
Editorial notes a disheartening trend for Grand Saline merchants as state and county data show other towns growing while local sales lag. It urges aggressive action to attract industry, promote businesses, and organize with planning and teamwork to spur growth.
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State Comptroller’s Office
Comptroller’s
Wills Point
Mineola
Quitman
Tyler
Brownsboro
Emory
Grand Saline
Edgewood
First National
Gaskey baby born in Dallas weighs ten pounds
Mr. and Mrs. Shelby Glenn Gaskey of Grand Saline announce the birth of daughter Kimberly Dawn on July 16 at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. The child weighed ten pounds one ounce. Grandparents listed include Kenneth Coyle and Geneva Munday, with James Gaskey as paternal grandfather. Great grandparents named Ochis Cook, J E Moore, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelby Glenn Gaskey
Grand Saline
Kimberly Dawn
Parkland Hospital
Dallas
Kenneth Coyle
Geneva Munday
James Gaskey
Ochis Cook
J.E. Moore
Weatherford
Washington Roll Call July 13 19 major roll call votes summary
Area representatives' votes on key measures include PIPELINES FOR COAL with 161 yeas 246 nays supporting rail alternatives. COAL LIQUEFACTION approving 75 million for demonstration. ANDREW YOUNG tabling impeachment move with 293 82. ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT amendment defeated 22 76. CONSUMER COOPERATIVE BANK passed 60 33. Names listed reflect support and opposition across multiple districts and parties.
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Congress
Yea
Charles Wilson
James Collins
Ray Roberts
Bill Archer
Bob Eckhardt
Jack Brooks
Jake Pickle
James Wright
Kika de la Garza
Omar Burleson
Barbara Jordan
George Mahon
Henry Gonzalez
Robert Krueger
Bob Gammage
Abraham Kazen
Dale Milford
Samuel Hall
Jim Mattox
Olin Teague
W.R. Poage
Jack Hightower
Richard White
Richard White, D-16
John Young
D-14
Department of Energy
DOE
Senate
Gulf Oil
Walter Flowers
D-Ala
Richard Ottinger
D-N.y
Hall
Wilson
Mattox
Teague
Archer
Pickle
U.S
Fortney Stark
D-Calif
Tabling
Wilmington Ten
North Carolina
Tellico
Tennessee
U.S. Supreme Court
Len Jake Garn
Utah
John Culver
Lowa
Lloyd Bentsen
John Tower
Consumer Cooperative Bank
U.S. Treasury
Alan Cranston
R-Tex
Bentsen
Tower
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H.L. ‘‘Woody’’ Woodall
H.L. Woodall
Texas
Texas Press Association
van Zandt County
Sun
Talco Aluminum
Fifth Street
Grand Saline Sun
Paul Hardin
P.O. Box
McKinney
Court of Civil Appeals
J.W. Summers
Rusk
van Zandt
Richard L. Ray
Canton
Troyce Casey
Pol
Rt. 4
Steve Gandy
Van
Shirley Morgan
Lyndell Williams
Briscoe
Wayne Peveto
Orange
Grant Jones
Abilene
House
Beverly Kay
James Douglas Smith
Monticello, Ark
Mrs
Johnnie Smith
Kathy Harris
Angela Beth
C.J. O’briant
Mrs. E.V. Perry
Editorial
Pontiac
Norman
John Norman
Ben Woolverton
W. Hwy
Stork Market
Morris Udall
D-Ariz
Fred Rooney
D-Pa
Washington
Roll Call
John Myers
R-Ind
U.N
Young
Roberts
Eckhardt
Brooks
Poage
Wright
Wright, Hightower, White, Jordan, Mahon, Gonzalez, Gammage
Karen
Milford
Collins
Burleson
Nay
de la Garza
Krueger
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Roll Call Reports
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