Efficiency Stressed By New Texas Agriculture Commissioner
Don Walden reports Texas Agriculture Commissioner Reagan V. Brown urges farm efficiency to curb rising food prices. Brown vows consumer protections through testing scales weights and pesticide samples, and notes approval of a less potent Mirex variant for fire ants. He favors feasible water imports for irrigation and has hired Jack Bowen to bolster agency impact.
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Don Walden
Texas Department of Agriculture
Texas
San Antonio
Reagan V. Brown
Market Square
Bexar County Armocrats
Brown
The
Department
Consumer Protection Agency
Jack Bowen
Texas Water Development Board
Texas Agricultural Extension Service
Gov
Briscoe
John White
Carter
Road Contract Awarded for 6.5-Mile FM 604 Section
A road contract for a 6.5 mile stretch of FM 604 between TH 10 and FM 1518 east of the city was awarded to MB Killian Co. The project includes a long concrete slab bridge over Martitiez Creek and is scheduled for completion by July 1978, per a spokesman from the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation.
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MB. Killian Co
TH 10
State Department of Highways, and Public Transportation
Martitiez’ Creek
Protests of County Valuations Reach Eight Hundred
About 800 protests of county property valuations have been filed, says Clint Jagge chief deputy. Owners may protest by altering Rendition cards or sending in revised forms. Protests must be postmarked by midnight April 30. Hearings before the Besar County Board of Equalization begin May 1 at the Calvert Building, with about five cases heard daily.
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Clint Jagge
Besar County
San Antonio Light article fragment review
Fragmentary OCR text from the San Antonio Light shows garbled numbers and names with unclear event or context. The readable bits mention rates, Sundays, and a mix of stray figures, lacking a coherent report, dates, or identifiable persons.
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