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TEXAS IT 14th ASSOCIATION AUSTIN, TEX.---Texans who failed to pay their poll tax have another chance to reg ister for a vote in the 1966 elections. This time it’s “fer free!’’ Registration period extends from March 3 through March 17. Any citizen eligible to vote can sign up with his county tax assessor-collector and his name will be placed on the poll list at no charge. So reads the “emergency” provision in the new voter reg istration act just passed by the Legislature and signed into law by Gov. John Connally. Hereafter, free registration will take place from October through January each year. There is one possible hitch: Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr fears that names of those who sign up during March won't be available for local elections al ready slated on bond issues, local option liquor questions, etc. He asked the three federal judges who banned the poll tax to put off their order until March 26. Estimates of the number of Texans who will take advantage of the free right to vote vary widely--from 50,000 to 1,000, 000. Any figure approaching the latter could make a substantial difference in the outcome of many local and some statewide elections. Indications are that the number of new voters will be nowhere near that high, how ever. All who paid poll taxes by January 31 will be entitled to vote as usual, without re-reg istering. PECOS SULPHUR BOOM Land Commissioner Jerry Sadler compares reaction to the recent Pecos County sulphur discovery with California’s Gold Rush days of 1849. He said ‘operators are mov ing in both day and night at tempting to locate and file claims on state-owned land...to mine sulphur.’’ Sadler declined to accept 50 cents an acre per year for sulphur leases when, he stated, leading sulphur operators paid up to $2,000 an acre bonus for five-year leases in a recent federal sale off the coast of Texas. State School Land Board re jected a rash of filings under an 1895 claim law. Board set a sulphur lease sale, along with oil and gas bidding, for May 3. APPOINTMENTS ANNOUNCES Governor Connally appointed Hill County Attorney Steve Latham of Hillsboro to succeed Sam Johnson, resigned, as judge of the 66th District Court of Hill County. Latham formerly practiced law in Wichita Falls, Governor chose former Dis trict Attorney Dan Walton of Houston as judge of Harris County’s Criminal District Court No. 4, succeeding the late Judge A. H. Krichamor. Connally’s appointees to the new Texas Air Control Board are Clinton Howard of Irving, Henry J. LeBlanc Sr. of Port Arthur, Herbert Whitney of Corpus Christi and Dr. Wendell Hamrick, John Files, and Dr. Herbert McKee, all of Houston, Bob Cheatham of Texarkana and Clifford Hensley of El Campo were named by the Gov ernor to the Texas Real Estate Commission, WATER DEBATE RE-HEARD Supreme Court of Texas has taken under advisement a long standing dispute between city of San Antonio and cities in the Guadalupe River basin. San Antonio is appealing a 1957 Texas Water Commission decision. Ruling denied the Alamo City’s application for 100,000-acre feet of water a year from Canyon Dam near New Braunfels and awarded 50,000-acre feet from the re servoir to Guadalupe-Blanco River authority for municipal use downstream. Attorneys for San Antonio claimed the city must import 138,000-acre feet for its needs by 1980. Meanwhile, Guadalupe basin will have a surplus over necessities of 180,000-acre feet. GBRA attorney denied any surplus is in sight. He said some cities, including Seguin and Port Lavaca, already have suffered from serious short ages. Major legal point involved is whether the Commission can delegate to GBRA rights to release water to unspecified municipal users, while denying San Antonio’s application to pipeline water from another basin for high priority city and domestic needs. AG RULES Attorney General has ruled that Texas Highway Department may grant the owner and opera tor of overweight mobile equip ment, which transports frac oil in oil well servicing, a permit for the movement of the equipment. In other actions he ruled that: A county attorney isn’t au thorized to bring ouster pro ceedings against a city attorney of a city incorporated under the general laws of Texas. A chain referral selling plan to promote sales, containing a prize awarded under the el ement of chance, is a lottery in Texas. A County Clerk may use one or more volumes, properly la beled and indexed, to constitute ‘‘a well-bound book’’ to meet the requirements of recording deeds, leases and declarations. Vehicles owned by an indi vidual must be registered by law in the county where he lives. Fraternal or Veterans clubs may legally sell alcoholic bev erages to members on the pre mises without a special license. New act calling for deposit of justice of peace court fines and fees in officers’ salary funds of counties is constitutional. Funds appropriated to Nat ional Guard Armory Board can be legally spent for addition to the building at Camp Mabry in Austin subject to necessary agency approval. Harrison County juvenile board or commissioners court has no authority to hire a sec retary for the county juvenile officer, but can hire a child service worker with added duty of secretary. State Board of Central still has supervision of the Battle ship Texas Commission, 11 TEST FOR BRUCELLOSIS Eleven counties--Atascosa, Brooks, Coryell, Falls, Hamil ton, Hood, Jack, Limestone, MecLennan, Milam and Roberts are testing for initial bru cellosis eradication certifica tion. Borden County has qualified for recertification. During January 16, 331 back tagged cattle originating in Tex as were tested at slaughter. A total of 18,202 cattle were tested at Texas livestock mar kets for return to the county, and 284 reactors were disclos ed. According to a U. S. Depart ment of Agriculture report, the screwworm eradication pro gram in Texas has been succ essful. Only 75 cases were con firmed in January, as compared to 237 cases for the same period last year. VISITORS INCREASE Attendance at 22 Texas va cations and attractions increas ed 13 per cent last year, with total admissions of 30,403,000. Six Flags over Texas rated as top tourist stop with 1,713,000 visitors, outdrawing by 446,000 San Antonio’s Alamo, according to Tourist Development Agency. Biggest percentage gain was marked by Bishop’s Palace on Galveston Island. Big Bend National Park reported another big increase, as did the Aqua rena at San Marcos, Old Stone Fort of Nacogdoches, Fort Davis National Historic Site and Padre Island, BUILDING SALES DROP Texas building and retail sales dropped during Jan uary. However, both December and January still were above the first month of 1965. UT’s Bureau of Business Re search reported total retail sales in January off 28 per cent from a record December due largely to the “greater than seasonal rise’’ during the Christmas month. Neverthe less, retail stores generally posted gains of two per cent over January a year ago. Building permits for the first month of 1966 dropped a whopp ing 22 per cent below December and four per cent below the 1965 average. But the $133, 200,000 total was 16 per cent over January, 1965. SHORT SNORTS State Railroad Commission set hearing for March 21 on proposal to extend discovery allowable period for onshore oil wells to 24 months (from present 18), Governor approved $116,048 Project Head Start Program in Hidalgo County (for Mission, McAllen and Monte Alto public schools) and $86,525 program for Abilene public schools. All phases of the poverty program will be discussed at a briefing for the press to be held by the Southwest Regional Office of CEO at the Driskill Hotel in Austin on March 10- 11. A conference on Historic Structures and their preserva tion will be held in Austin on March 11-12. Governor Connally has called a conference on mental retarda tion for March 17-18 at the Terrace Motor Hotel in Austin, Texas Restaurant Associa tion and Texas Motel Associa tion announces they will hold a joint convention in Austin on June 27-30. Governor Connally has re ceived delivery of the first official car every provided the Chief Executive by Legislative direction, Neil Yeamans, this notice, clipped from The Progress, will admit you and a guest to the Tarpon Drive In The atre as our guests for the showing of SPY IN YOUR EYE,” Sun., Mon., Tues., March 6, 7, 8. NOTICE TO WHOM IT MAY CON CERN The partnership of Stroud- Thompson Caterers is dis solved effective February 7, 1966 Signed: H. G. Thompson Published in the Aransas Pass Progress Feb. 16, 23, March 2, 1966. Hy De QVEp ‘2 me fF
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Aransas Pass Progress
Aransas Pass, Texas, US
Wed, Mar 02, 1966
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