City Council approves partial gas rate increase
Houston Natural Gas faced rejection of its full rate hike as the City Council adopted the Citizens Advisory Board plan setting a minimum bill of 2.70 dollars and gas rates from 10 to 15 cents per 100 cubic feet. Several leases and ordinances were approved and others defeated, including an amended dog control measure.
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Houston Natural Gas Corporation
Citizens’ Advisory Board
HNG
Don Henderson
Rates and Research
Alberti Equipment, Inc
Energy Systems of California, Inc
Alberti
Broadway
Commerce
Virginia
Austin
Main
Half League
Alcoa Road
Bill Massey
Guadalupe-Blanco River
Commissioners Court Cuts County Insurance Costs and Sets Hearings
Calhoun County reduced annual insurance costs by 3000 by switching to Great American Insurance Co through Tyus Agency. Auditor James Houlihan said past overpayments arose from deviation noncompliance with the State manual. Court postponed most items, set hearings for property tax assessments and tax equalization, and approved pipeline permits, elected officials, equipment purchases, and bids for vehicles.
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Calhoun County Commissioners’ Court
Great American Insurance Co
Tyus Insurance Agency
Port Lavaca
James Houlihan
De-Go-La
County Board of Equalization
Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority
Johnnie Blinka
Joe Brett
Ed Harberson
Larry Hamilton
Shirley Whatley
Harold Evans
From here to there in the space race with Tom Stafford
Dick Fisher reflects on the space race from Soviet firsts to U S Gemini triumphs led by Gordon Cooper and John Glenn. He notes Cooper’s quip on the lowest bidder and foresees a joint US Soviet space docking with Stafford, catching up to a distant Soviet craft, timed to the second.
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Dick Fisher
U.S
Soviet Union
John Glenn
Gordon Cooper
Gordon
Cooper
Tom Stafford
Historical Committee meeting on marker dedications planned
The Calhoun County Historical Committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the County Court House Annex Auditorium to discuss the dedication of the Confederate States marker and the Dr Moses Johnson highway marker. Bicentennial activities will be planned and scheduled, with public invitation noted.
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Calhoun County Historical Committee
County Court House
Moses Johnson
Gas producers must count interstate sales for taxes says Texas AG
Texas Attorney General John Hill ruled that gas producers must include sales to interstate pipelines in corporate franchise tax calculations. The decision could bring in tens of millions, with back taxes potentially due for major gas producers.
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Austin, Tex
Atty
John Hill
Randall Wood
Comptroller’s Department
Hill
Robert S. Calvert
Wood
Texas
Texas First briefing set for Humble July 17
Governor Dolph Briscoe unveils the Texas First campaign as part of the Job Creation effort to place 15,000 Texans in jobs, with more than 1 million dollars annually into the economy. A noon Humble meeting at Holiday Inn follows a statewide plan including East Texas sessions in Sulphur Springs and Tyler.
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Humble
Dolph Briscoe
Texas First
Texas
Humble-Houston Intercontinental Airport
Holiday Inn
East Texas
East Texas Chamber of Commerce
Sulphur Springs
Tyler
Jim Harwell
Texas Industrial Commission
Industrial Commission
Texas Department of Community Affairs
Humble Chamber of Commerce
Space launch draws VIPs and crowds at Cape Canaveral
Thousands gather as three American astronauts prepare for a rendezvous with two Russians in space. A break in storms may give a clear view. attendance at Kennedy Space Center could approach but not reach prior moon-shot crowds. VIPs include Soviet Ambassador Dobrynin and Princess Beatrix. Susan Ford photographs for Topeka Capital Journal. President Ford will watch from the White House.
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Cape Canaveral
Fila
Kennedy Space Center
The
Space Center
NASA
America
Anatoly F. Dobrynin
Beatrix
Netherlands
Susan Ford
Ford
Topeka
Kan
Capital Journal
White House
Fall garden short course opens July 22 in Port Lavaca
Calhoun County hosts a four session fall and winter garden short course starting July 22 at 8 p.m. in Port Lavaca Town Hall. Perry Haskin Jr. announces Texas A&M horticulturist Sam Conner will cover fall vegetables, starting plants, transplanting and care. Also July 29 Dr. Carl Gray will discuss soils. Subsequent sessions plan insect control and disease management with Dr. Jarrel Johnson.
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Calhoun County
Perry Haskin, Jr
First State Bank and Trust Company
Port Lavaca
Sam Conner
Texas A&m University
Haskin
Carl Gray
Texas A&m
Charles Cole
Jack Price
Jarrel Johnson
Weather outlook with showers and thinning clouds
Mostly cloudy with a chance of thundershowers through tonight. Decreasing cloudiness tomorrow. Easterly winds 6 to 14 mph gusting near thundershowers. High today mid 80s. Low tonight near 70. High tomorrow mid 80s. 50 percent rain today, 30 percent tonight, 20 percent tomorrow. East southeasterly winds in the Gulf 8 to 18 knots, gusty to 30 near thundershowers. Seas two to four feet. Sunset 8 28, sunrise 6 40. Low tide 4 58 pm, high tide 12 56 tonight. next low 4 54 am, next high 9 45 am. Barometer 30.07 and rising at noon.
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Gulf
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Colonial Life and Accident Insurance Co
Leo Westerholm
Jack Lawrence
Recreation and Parks Board
Bob Barham
Smith
John Calzada
R.H. Burleson
Brookhollow
Mike Gibson
ALCOA
Point Comfort
Calhoun County Navigation District
Wilco
Sun Pipeline Co
Commissioners Court
County
Precinct 4
Plains Machinery Co
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Attorney General Rules
Department of Community Affairs
Texas Employment Commission
Texas Eduction Agency
Governor’s Division of Planning Coordination
Briscoe
Reagan Brown
Fall Garden
Calhoun County Extension Office
Orval Graham
Raymond Barefield
W.H. McCarn
Erwin Hermes
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