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Poll Tax and 1948 Texas Elections Set for Major Year
Poll tax payments in Texas will surge in January as 1948 brings presidential year primaries and party conventions. The tax of 1 dollar funds schools, with exemptions for age 60, age 21 entrants, handicapped, and state service workers. Absentee voting allowed. runoffs in August. general election November 2 sets the stage for a busy political year with constitutional amendments on the ballot and a broadened schedule for county and state offices.
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Gordon K. Shearer
United Press
Austin
Texas
National Guardsmen
Brownwood
State Democratic Executive Committee
Pative Committee