Texas welfare rolls decline for first time in three years
Texas AFDC recipients fell by 1 555 to 446 412 as welfare officials credit tighter eligibility rules and expanded services. Welfare Commissioner Raymond Vowell notes improved verification, recertification, and fraud probes, with 130 of 205 cases referred to prosecutors.
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Austin
Tex
Texas
AFDC
State Department of Public Welfare
Raymond W. Vowell
Vowell
Discriminatory Queries Target Texas State Agencies
Federal EEOC vice chairman Dr. Luther Holcomb warned Texas agencies that anti discrimination laws apply to state governments. Six agencies already face complaints under the new law for questions about race religion or arrest records on applications and for tests diplomas and applicant photographs. The message ends with a cancer fundraising appeal from the American Cancer Society.
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Texas
Luther Holcomb
Federal Equal Employment Opportunities Commission
Washington Roundup Favors Limiting Busing Under Equal Education Act
The House passed the Equal Education Opportunities Act by 282 to 102 to curb court mandated busing for racial balance. Proponents cite reduced extracurricular participation and traffic hazards, while backing $500 million for upgrading low income neighborhoods and reopening desegregation cases to limit busing. Senate action is uncertain as the session nears end.
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House of Representatives
Senate
Congress
Push for 6.8% state employee raises and teacher retirement boost
Gov Preston Smith and Sen John Tower push the federal pay board to approve 6.8 percent raises for 67000 state workers citing a catch up exemption after a 5.5 percent cap. Retired teachers seek higher benefits under the 1971 standard using a best five year average and higher percentage factors with examples showing small monthly payments.
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Preston Smith
John Tower
Federal
Smith and Tower
Monahans Officers Named At City Park Luncheon
Thirty years ago Fern Tatum was elected captain and A A Hunt lieutenant of the Monahans Sheriffs Posse at a special covered dish luncheon in City Park. Other officers elected were M C Sibley corporal E E Watt secretary treasurer and Robert Avary corral boss.
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Fern Tatum
A.A. Hunt
Monahans Sheriffs
M. C. Sibley
E.E. Watt
Robert Avary
Corral
Sharpnack Earns Elementary Education Degree at TWU
Miss Patricia Ann Sharpnack of Grandfalls, daughter of Mr and Mrs J K Sharpnack, received a bachelor's in Elementary Education from Texas Women's University Denton. Summer Commencement exercises were held Friday August 18 in the Main Auditorium at TWU.
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Patricia Ann Sharpnack
Grandfalls
J. K. Sharpnack
Texas Women’s University
Denton
TWU
Lawmen Credited In Cut Insurance Rate Benefits
Lawmen credited in a 11 per cent auto insurance rate cut effective September 1. Intensive enforcement may further reduce accidents and lower premiums, while slack enforcement could erase the gains. Police chiefs and sheriffs received a special commendation for reducing accidents and were urged to pursue speeders drunk drivers and unlicensed motorists.
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Southwestern Insurance Information Service
Association
Insurance Group
McGovern Shriver Meet LBJ at Ranch for Campaign Talk
Sen George McGovern and Sargent Shriver visited the LBJ Ranch last Tuesday to discuss politics with former President Lyndon Johnson who earlier endorsed their presidential and vice presidential bids. Parks and Wildlife Commission approves funds to rehabilitate 30mile Texas Railroad in East Texas as a tourist draw. A Laredo candidate for county commissioner remains ballot eligible despite a misfiled expense report with the wrong official. Atty Gen Crawford Martin announces Richard B Amandes of Lubbock as a new commissioner to a national conference on uniform state laws.
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George McGovern
Sargent Shriver
LBJ Ranch
Lyndon Johnson
Parks and Wildlife Commission
Texas
East
Laredo
Atty
Crawford Martin
Richard B. Amandes
Lubbock
Former Monahans Man Promoted With Drilco
Bill J. Dixon, a Drilco salesman for ten years, is promoted to Manager Eastern Hemisphere with an office in London. He began with Drilco in 1962, has 11 years in drilling tools, and has worked in Midland Monahans Beirut and Lebanon, with a Beirut evacuation during 1967.
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Bill J. Dixon
Drilco
Eastern Hemisphere
London
England
Dixon
Midland
Monahans
International Division
Beirut
Lebanon
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Kay Daniel
Janie
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Janice Atkinson
H. M. Williams
Barbara Atkinson
Margie Mann
Texas State Department of Public Safety
S. V. Mitchell
A. G. Adair
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Lobos
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New Mexico
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Draughon's Business College
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