Texas Textbook Committee End of Hearings Faces 40 Volumes
After five days of hearings the Texas State Textbook Committee must read about 40 volumes of materials as critics and publishers debate nearly 40 million dollars worth of textbooks for 1979. Reviewers questioned gender roles and biographies while publishers defend selections as factual. Committee votes Sept. 11 for Board of Education review with final list due Nov. 11.
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Austin
Texas
State Board of Education
Janie Riddle
Hous
Tryouts Scheduled for Flag Football Players
Tryouts for nine and ten year olds will be behind Jaycees park at six this evening and last about 45 minutes. All boys wishing to play must attend. Tryouts for eleven and twelve year olds will be at the same time and place on Thursday August 24.
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Jaycees
Senate rejects gas tax plan
The Senate voted 75 to 10 against moving federal gasoline tax revenues to the Treasury for general use. Kennedy and Weicker urged direct appropriations for highways, while Highway Trust Fund backers argued the program balances its books until the Interstate network is completed. The chamber also advanced a measure to finish missing Interstate links by 1986, with a final vote deferred.
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Washington
Senate
Treasury
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Lowell Weicker
R-Conn
Congress
Kennedy
Highway Trust Fund
Businessmen seek larger tax cut share and spending restraint
Representatives of U.S. business groups urge Congress to nearly double the Carter administration and House tax cut to 30 billion dollars while linking it to slower growth in federal outlays. Chamber of Commerce officials back greater capital gains relief and a bigger business share, contending current taxes stifle investment and productivity. The Senate Finance Committee may widen the House's 16.3 billion proposal, but not to 30 billion, with continued focus on capital gains and corporate relief.
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Associated Press
Washington
Congress
House
Chamber of Commerce
Jack Carlson
Chamber
Senate Finance Committee
Finance Committee
Senate
Carlson
Roland M. Bixler
National Association of Manufacturers
Four Farm Groups Plan Legislation for Prices
Four major farm organizations have drafted legislation to boost farmers' prices by uniting buyers to deal with them as a group. The plan targets the farmers' disadvantaged position in an urbanized market, where buyers often set prices or offer non perishables that resist holdouts. The Copper Volstead Act limits antitrust rules for farmers, enabling cooperatives to market products, a point examined by the Justice Department as to fairness to consumers.
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Washington
Congressional Agriculture Committees
U.S
Free Enterprise
American Farm Bureau Federation
Justice Department
Farm groups back measure on bargaining with buyers
Capper Volstead would not force buyers to negotiate with an association. The proposed law would require sit down bargaining in good faith over prices and terms of sale. The Farm Bureau National Grange National Farmers Union and National Council of Farmer Cooperatives drafted and endorsed it, introduced Aug 15 in the House. Associations would be certified by the agriculture secretary if controlled by producers and capable of representing crop growers.
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Capper Volstead
Farm Bureau
National Grange
National Farmers Union
National Council of Farmer Cooperatives
Ing
Washington
California
Agriculture Secretary
Pecos Chamber Studies Interstate 20 Sign Relocation Plan
Pecos Chamber of Commerce considers moving Pecos advertising signs along Interstate 20 east and west and U S 285 south after authorization. Jim Livingston reports the plan reviewed by Bill Hubbs Bennie Babb and him with help from the Department of Highways and Public Transportation. Tommy Beauchamp chairs the committee and seeks member ideas for a final decision soon. Six signs, metal and wood, 15 by 10 feet, are contemplated.
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Pecos
Interstate 20
U.S. 285
Tommy Beauchamp
Chamber of Commerce
Livingston
Toyah Man Jailed in Reeves County Bond Set at 5000
Danny Severe Jordan, 27, Toyah resident, remained in Reeves County jail Pecos on misdemeanor marijuana possession after deputy arrest. Bond set at 5000. he appeared before a justice of the peace and was remanded to sheriff custody pending further court action.
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Toyah
Danny Severe Jordan
Reeves County
Pecos
Raul Florez
Jordan
Albuquerque to honor balloonists with downtown parade
Albuquerque will honor its three world record balloonists with a ticket parade through downtown when they return home Saturday. Ben Abruzzo Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman gained worldwide attention last week as the first to cross the Atlantic Ocean in a balloon.
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Albuquerque
N.M
Ben Abruzzo
Maxie Anderson
Larry Newman
Atlantic Ocean
Budget hike for Texas human services labeled fantastic
Human resources commissioner Jerome Chapman called the department’s $1.68 billion budget request realistic but fantastically large. The plan seeks a $735.2 million increase, funding AFDC grants, more food stamp staff, and expanded protective services amid inflation and rising Medicaid costs.
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Lee Jones
Associated Press
Austin, Texas
Jerome Chapman
Chapman
Texas Department of Human Resources
Welfare Department
Harry Ledbetter
John Hill
Ceive
Supreme Court limits OSHA inspections without warrants
The Supreme Court, in a 5-3 ruling, struck down the 1970 OSHA inspection provision, ruling that government agents cannot conduct spot checks of businesses without a warrant. The decision marks a win for the business community and clarifies agency authority while emphasizing Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable searches.
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OSHA
Renovation Work Expands Across Pecos Streets
Bill Burnett of the Texas Highway Department informs Pecos Enterprise that renovation now reaches Stafford and Eddy streets with plans to complete reprocessing of old base materials today. Starting tomorrow the west side will be reshaped, and Thursday asphalt will be poured for priming. Drivers are asked to use the designated side. Next week traffic shifts to the west side as work begins on Eddy Street’s east side.
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Bill Burnett
Texas Highway Department
Pecos Enterprise
Stafford
Eddy Streets
Pecos
Eddy St
Weather Watch West Texas Mostly Clear With Thunder Storms
Yesterday Pecos reported a high of 101 degrees and a low of 65 this morning. The Associated Press forecast calls for clear to partly cloudy conditions in West Texas through Wednesday with widely scattered showers and thunder storms in the east, Panhandle and mountains. Highs mostly in the 90s to 102 in Big Bend, with lows in the 60s and upper 50s in the mountains.
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Pecos
Associated Press
West Texas
Panhandle
Mountains
Big Bend
Upper
50S
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