Filing deadline Oct 3 for Constitution vote in Texas
Secretary of State Mark White urged Texas voters to register by October 3 1975 for the constitutional election. He emphasized easy registration bilingual forms with guides mailed to patrons and explained that those who voted in 1972 or later need not re register. Voters may mail or deliver forms to their county Tax Assessor Collector.
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Austin
Mark White
Texans
Capitol
White
Texas
Conservation banquet honors local leaders at S and WCD meeting
Marvin Williams was reelected to place two of the Calhoun Soil and Water Conservation District at its eighth annual meeting. C L Cook were named resident conservationists. Roy Smith won outstanding absentee conservationist. Fred Knipling received outstanding businessman award. John Specht of GBRA spoke on water planning and reservoir funding. President Bauer J. highlighted district reports opposing federal land use planning and supporting regional projects and erosion control efforts.
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Marvin Williams
Calhoun Soil and Water Conservation District
Fred Sturm
Williams
C.L. Cook
Cook
Calhoun County Independent
Roy Smith
Calhoun County
Corpus Christi
Austwell
Bastrop
Fred Knipling
First State Bank and Trust
Specht
Leo Rainer Cook
Price index climbs as farm goods lead September rise
The Labor Department reports wholesale prices rose six tenths of a percent in September, led by farm products up 4.3 percent and industrial commodities up seven tenths. The overall index, adjusted for seasonal variation, lagged August’s gain, and officials consider revising methods to avoid contradictions amid volatile price swings. Unemployment data due Friday is expected to show little change.
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Washington
Labor Department
Department
Sidney L. Jones
Treasury
Jones
Crowd gathers as CCISD board reviews grading system
A room full of puzzled parents is expected at the Calhoun County School Board meeting to hear the new grading system explained. The board will discuss the State Compensatory Education Program, Community Education Program, Career Education Project, and Right to Read Project, along with State Board priorities and personnel matters. A special called meeting notice was filed on Sept. 26.
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Calhoun County School Board
Guadalupe St
Port Lavaca
State Board of Education
Jury convicts Carrillo brothers in tax fraud case
A federal jury in Corpus Christi convicts suspended District Judge O P Carrillo and Duval County Commissioner Ramiro Carrillo of conspiring to file false income tax returns and of filing false returns. Sentencing set for November 17. impeachment trial in Texas Senate to follow for Judge Carrillo.
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Corpus Christi, Tex
O.P. Carrillo
Duval County
Ramiro Carrillo
Owen D. Cox
Carrillo Brothers
Carrillo
Texas Senate
Cox
Arturo Zertuche
Community forum on Project Proud downtown renewal set
Tonight at 7 p.m. in the First State Bank Town Hall room residents will view a project presentation by Jim Wilson of the Port Lavaca Chamber of Commerce detailing downtown renewal case studies. A 7:30 p.m. Citizens' Advisory Board hearing follows at the City Hall Annex with plans for a similar Port Lavaca project.
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First State Bank
Citizens’ Advisory Board
City Hall Annex
Port Lavaca
Dick Tatum
Chamber Board of Directors
Fair Share campaign kicks off United Way drive in Calhoun County
United Way of Calhoun County began its 1975 fundraising drive with a breakfast at Travis Cafeteria. Leo Westerhold and M.H. Josephson urged workers to blend emotional appeals with logical arguments, target a $55,000 goal, and personally pledge. the three week effort includes advanced gifts led by Ed Wagner and employer gifts led by Ed Warren, with a progress report due October 7.
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United Way
Calhoun County
Travis
M.H. Josephson
Southland Life Insurance Co
Dallas
Leo Westerhold
John D
Buddy
Winder
John M. Monk
Myra Comiskey
Harold Young
Frankie Tupa
Robert Harvey
Ed Wagner
Ed Warren
United Way Drive
U.W
Otis Carter Named Drainage Commissioner in Calhoun District
Otis Carter was named by Calhoun County Drainage District No 11 to fill the unexpired term of E.R Martinez starting at the November meeting. The board discussed a resident letter on the Chocolate Bayou watershed to gauge landowner views and considered options to continue, abandon, or delay the project while awaiting Victoria Drainage District No. 1.
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Otis Carter
Calhoun County
E.R Martinez
Chocolate Bayou
Pete Wright
Victoria
Victoria County
Mike Fricke
Wright
Walter Maguire
Fred Knipling
Maguie
J.E. Boyd
Crenshaw
Tippet and Boyd
Estelle
James Houlihan
Suburban Dallas districts report no black teachers
In the Dallas area, seven suburban districts were asked for minority enrollment, minority staff counts, and transfer policies for a desegregation plan. Highland Park DeSoto Duncanville Carrollton-Farmers Branch Lancaster Irving Wilmer-Hutchins submitted answers. plaintiffs seek evidence for Nov. hearings. Judge Taylor had set an Oct. 1 filing deadline.
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Dallas
Dallas Public
Highland Park
DeSoto
Duncanville
Schiors
Carrollton-Farmers Branch
Lancaster
Irving
Wilmer-Hutchins
William Taylor
Weather forecast shifts to clearer conditions this week
Decreasing cloudiness this afternoon with fair skies tonight and Friday. Mild afternoons and cool nights, northeasterly winds 8 to 16 mph. Highs in the upper 70s, lows around 50s. Marine outlook shows northerly 10 to 20 knots, tonight 8 to 18 knots, seas 6 to 8 ft lowering to 3 to 5 ft. Tides include 8:06 p.m. low, 3:39 a.m. high, 9:37 a.m. low, 2:46 p.m. high Friday. Barometer steady at 30.30. Sunset 7:13 p.m. Sunrise 7:22 a.m.
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S&wcd
Conservation Awards
GBRA
San Antonio
Cp&l
Texas Water Plan
Texas Water Development Board
Texas Coastal Management Study
US Corps of Engineers
TWDE
Coastal Management Study
W.H. Bauer J
Texas Air Control Board
Go-La
Golden Crescent Council of Governments
Lynn's Bayou
Joint Economic Committee
Ford Administration
Senate Budget Committee
Arthur M. Okun
Brookings Institution
Murray L. Weidenbaum
Washington University
Judge Carrillo
Arthur Mitchell
Mitchell
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