Open Letter to Calhoun Citizens on Matagorda Range
S J Ward of the Port Lavaca Calhoun Chamber of Commerce urges residents to oppose Matagorda Island land transfer to the Interior Department. He warns loss of the range could cost Calhoun County millions and asks readers to write Senators Bentsen and Tower to voice their opposition.
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Matagorda Island
Calhoun County
Congress
Matagorda
Air Force
Ft. Hood
Matagorda Air Force Range
Department of the Interior
S.J. Ward
Port Lavaca
Calhoun County Chamber of Commerce & Agriculture
State educators seek tax value estimates for school finance reforms
Legislators press to see how five school finance bills affect taxpayers as data on taxable property values is finalized. The Texas Education Agency will input Briscoe area estimates. total district property value is pegged at 165 billion including untaxed autos.
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Austin, Tex
House Public Education
Texas Education Agency
Briscoe
Management Services Associates
Bill Clayton
Massey
Bill Hobby
Texas
Public Education Committee
Joe Pentony
Houston
Pentony
Peveto
Texas Senate backs 55 mph extension to match federal rule
Texas senators approved a compromise 26 to 5 to extend the 55 mph speed limit on state highways as long as federal policy allows. The measure heads to the House for final approval before a governor’s signature. Supporters cited avoiding loss of $300,000 in federal highway funds by April 1 and stressed the need to prevent federal pressure.
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Austin
Texas
State Highway Department
Sen
A.M. Aikin
D-Paris
Congress
Lloyd Bentsen
White House
House-Senate
Woody Denson
Houston
Senate Jurisprudence Committee
House
Denson
John Hoestenbach
Dodessa
Tom Craddick
R-Midland
Jurisprudence Committee
Communities praised for sticking together at GCCOG meeting
At Halettssville last night Tom Garner and about 24 Calhoun County residents joined roughly 200 attendees for the semiannual GCCOG meeting. Ben McDonald, executive director of the Texas Department of Community Affairs, urged support for the new federalism as decision making returns to the people. He praised local cooperation here and warned that lack of unity exists elsewhere in Texas councils of governments.
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Ben McDonald
Austin
Center
General Assembly
Golden Crescent Council of Governments
Hallettsville
Crandall Young
Calhoun County Independent
Tom
Mike Lopez
Tom Garner
Calhoun County
COG
Council of Governments
Texas Department of Community Affairs
McDonald
Corpus Christi
Dolph Briscoe
Texas
Weather Outlook With Golden Crescent COG Notes
Cloudy and windy through Thursday with increasing rain chances. East to southeast winds 15-25 mph, gusty, high temps in the low 70s, low tonight mid 60s. Precipitation chances 20% today, 30% tonight, 40% Thursday. Marine forecast warns small craft, winds 15-25 knots, seas six to eight feet, showers. McDonald praises Golden Crescent Council cooperation and urges regional government in hometowns, noting member cities and officials from Point Comfort Seadrift and Calhoun County.
Port Lavaca Junior Service League names seven gift recipients
Port Lavaca's Junior Service League announced end of year gifts totaling 4650 for the year to seven groups Social Advocates for Youth Sunlight Girls P T A Shoe Fund Day Care Center Image Calhoun County Council for the Retarded and Calhoun County Library amounts ranged 100 to 500. The meeting honored members elected officers and welcomed 12 new members.
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Port Lavaca
Junior Service League
Social Advocates
Sunlight Girls
P.T.A. Shoe Fund
Image
Calhoun County Council
Calhoun County Library
Calhoun County Training Center
Don Cunningham
Clifton Gruetzmacher
Wallace Dierlam
Gruetzmacher
Dierlam
Grutzmacher
Dorothy Stofer
Maurice Horine
Leo Westerholm
Calhoun County 4-H Skeet Team Wins District Meet
The Calhoun County 4-H Skeet Shooting team won top honors at a district meet in Austin. Jeff Daggs Jeff Birmingham Dale Wise and David Kruse led the team to first place while alternates Mike Surovik and John Canion joined two Austin 4-Hers to secure third. Birmingham earned a high individual trophy.
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Calhoun County
Austin
Joe Surovik
Texas
San Antonio
North Texas
Jeff Daggs
Jeff Birmingham
Dale Wise
David Kruse
Mike Surovik
John Canion
Birmingham
Victoria
Jimmy
Flash
Miller
Wayne
Blue Goose
Daggs
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Washington, D.C
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John Young
Rayburn
Tom Massey
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Wayne Peveto
Dorango
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Sh Education
State Board of Education Snide Teachers Association
Lynn Moak
Planning Research
State Board of Education
Monk
Garner
GCCOG
Gerald Bissett
Horace Young
13Th Court of Civil Appeals
American Legion Hall
Golden Crescent
Texas Municipal League
David Roberts
Point Comfort
Mila
Mark Cameron
Paul Griffith
Robert Sheppard
Robert Keszler
Paul Abraham
Seadrift
Billy Wilson
Theola
Edwin Holder
Calhoun County Independent School District
Alvin Hahn
Calhoun County Soil and Water Conservation District
Carsner
L.S. Benge
Mitch Boepple
Joe Bumgardner
Reagan Cates
James Coleman Jr
Norman Davis
Ray Dierksen
Wally Gibson
J. Reiffert
Wilbert Roznovsky
Itasca Stafford
James Talley
Earl Wyatt
City of
City of Seadrift
Calhoun County Commissioners Court
Calhoun County Navigation District
Champ Traylor Memorial Hospital
Port Commission of
Jay Hubbard
John Sterling
John Griffin
David Denham
Jack Lawrence
Tom Taylor
Cunningham
Ben Harriss
Calhoun County Educational Secretaries Association
Barbara Randle
Rena Arnold
Frankie Shannon
Estha Williams
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