Clements Plans August Special Session for Tax Relief
Governor Bill Clements said he would call a special legislative session in August or September to push a tax relief package of about 700 million dollars. He also proposed wiretap authority in drug cases and allows Texans to bypass the Legislature to adopt or veto laws, while predicting major public school reform and endorsing a GOP candidate after the Texas GOP primary.
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Austin
Texas
Bill Clements
Clements
Texas Real Estate Political Action Committee
Trepac
John Hill
White House
Carter
John Connally
George Bush
Ronald Reagan
Gerald Ford
Pecos Area Weather Forecast Turns Partly Cloudy Today
Weather in Pecos and nearby areas will be partly cloudy to clear today and tomorrow with increasing clouds. The record shows a high of 70 degrees on Wednesday and a low of 34 degrees this morning.
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Pecos
Crucial year predicted for oil industry
Chairman John Poerner of the Texas Railroad Commission called 1980 a crucial year for oil and gas and urged company executives to attend the March state of the industry meeting in Austin. The commission set February oil allowables at 100 percent, with the East Texas field limited to 86 percent to prevent waste. Major Texas crude buyers announced February nominations totaling 2 652 720 barrels per day.
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Austin, Texas
John Poerner
The
Texas Railroad Commission
Oil and Gas
Poerner
Texas
East Texas
Austin
United States
U.S. expands grain sales as Mexico buys over 1 million tons
An agreement lets Mexico purchase about 1.7 million tons of corn and 1 million tons of sorghum plus wheat soybeans and other products, increasing Mexico's 1980 purchases to roughly 7.15 million tons. The deal follows Carter's Soviet grain embargo and aims to broaden markets for grain destined for the USSR.
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Don Kendall
Washington
United States
Mexico
Soviet Union
Dale E. Hathaway
Carter
Kremlin
Afghanistan
Moscow
Jorge de la Vega
U.S
Hathaway
de la Vega
Nolen accused of salary supplements in North Texas probe
Investigators say former North Texas State University president C C Nolen received about 17000 in salary supplements in his final year amid a shell game of shifting private donations and state funds. Nolen invoked the Fifth Amendment 24 times as the House committee pressed for answers, while records link funds to the Hatton-Sumners Fellowships and an economics collection purchase.
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Ken Herman
Associated Press
Austin, Texas
C.C. Nolen
North Texas State University
Nolen
House General Investigating Committee
Denton
Jim Wollers
Bob Shults
Houston
North Texas
Harry Friedman
Mary Potishman Lard
Friedmans
Shults
University Library
Hatton-Sumners Public Administration
Ntsu Educational Fund
Ntsu Development Department
Tarango to seek Reeves County Precinct 1 commissioner
Benny J Tarango announces candidacy for Reeves County Precinct 1 commissioner residing at 615 S Ash Marfa roots and Pecos ties. He worked 10 years with Texas Department of Transportation and with Reeves County Sheriff's Office under Raul Florez, now self employed in trucking with wife Enedina and four children. He attended Odessa College law enforcement classes and attends St Catherine Catholic Church. He pledges impartiality and change, asking for support in the May primary.
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Tarango
Marfa
Pecos
Reeves County
Texas Department of Public Transportation
Sheriff's Office
Raul Florez
Odessa College
Enedina
Benny
Danny
PHS
Ernie
Crockett
Barbara
St. Catherine's — Catholic
Weather sketch for West Texas Friday outlook
West Texas forecasts show clear to partly cloudy today with increasing clouds tonight. Friday will be mostly cloudy and cooler with a slight chance of thunderstorms in the Panhandle. Highs range from 52 in the north to 80 in the south. Lows fall from the 30s in the mountains and north to around 44 in the southeast.
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West Texas
Panhandle
Tension eases as oil strike injunction holds
Injunction prohibiting harassment and property damage is easing tension on picket lines at oil refineries. Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers union members walked out over demands for fully paid health care, longer vacations, and higher pay. Production at refineries remains at normal levels per some officials, while others say output is reduced due to unqualified operators.
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Housionap
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Oil Company
Roy Barnes
Houston
Barnes
OCAW
Texas City
Joe Stanley
Willy Devlin
Southwest strike drags on as firm weighs replacements
Four day impasse at Southwest Airlines persists as 106 striking workers including mechanics cleaners and stock clerks stay out. Howard Putnam says the company will not be anti union but must keep money flowing. Union officials did not comment on the strategy session or talks halted since the IAMAW strike began after midnight Saturday.
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Dallas
Southwest Airlines
Howard Putnam
Southwest
Putnam
International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers
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Union Oil Co
California
Lonnie Kelly
Twentieth Century Club
First Presbyterian Church
Robert Hinojos
Benny J. Tarango
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Amoco
Stanley
Commission
America
Charles Doyle
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