Texas Legislature sets special session for June 14
Gov. Preston Smith issued a proclamation calling a special session at 10 a.m. on June 14 to consider a 1973 budget with no new taxes. He indicated he will include only subjects he submits, and will not open to other business until the 1973 financing for state operations from Sept. 1, 1972 to Aug. 31, 1972 is enacted.
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Preston Smith
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1971 Texas legislature sets year appropriations for 1973 welfare
The 1971 regular session adopted year appropriations and anticipated federal aid that did not arrive. A special session is planned to act on the welfare budget and ethics code proposals, with potential repeal of a trailer brake law. Governor may seek a welfare program finance act covering part of 1973 to avoid new taxes.
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Smith
Water Bonds Sold Under State Aid Program
A total of 25 million dollars in bonds have been issued to municipalities under Texas water quality assistance for sewage treatment facility projects. The Texas Water Quality Board reports 106 loan applications totaling 28.77 million dollars, with 72 approved for 24.63 million and 34 pending for 4.1 million. Fourteen point twenty community? (Note: Original contains 4.2 million transferred to 16 projects. bids approved and construction ready.) Bonds cover the state's share with the federal government paying the rest. cities fund about 25 percent.
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Texas Water Quality Board
Liberal Democrats seek to block Orr at state convention
In San Antonio on June 13 Liberal Democrats maneuver to keep State Democratic Executive Committee Chairman Roy Orr from presiding at the Texas party gathering. Agriculture Commissioner John White notes a grain theft ring broken with three itinerant truck operators arrested at Cleburne. Forty-two Texas inmates sit on death row as the Supreme Court weighs death penalty validity.
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Cleburne
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Population figure and quirky facts from 1971
Australia’s population at end of 1971 stood at 12,881,100 per government statistician. An archerfish knocks down prey by squirting water. Scuba is an acronym from self contained underwater breathing apparatus. Seventy five percent of NYC visitors arrive by air per the Air Transport Association.
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