Weloles spring festival and events in Bexar area
The four day Weloles festival kicks off Wednesday with Miss Helotes crowning, a three mile parade, western dances, a street carnival, art show, armadillo races, and a compare contest. Brooks AFB hosts outdoor bicentennial band concert at 7 pm near the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine.
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Weloles
Brooks Air Force Diesel Company Grade Officers Council
339Th Air Force Band
Usaf School of Aerospace Medicine
Brooks
Through The Years Light Files April Entries
A collage of brief notes from various years: 1906 marketing talk for a San Antonio World's Fair. 1956 report of an uncaged lioness seen on Croesus Street. 1846 glimpse of the Battle of Flowers parade. 1936 film listing at Majestic Theater with Janet Gaynor and Robert Taylor. 1924 oil well near paydirt. 1916 abandoned bank reorientation talks. 14 police notes on crime wave handling. 1486 sanitation concerns amid heat and fruit decay. 166 reference to a large hute on Live between Crockel and Commuter with city authorities’ notice.
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Crockel
JP Not Going to Jail Without a Fight
Peace justice judges Esquivel and Gutierrez oppose moving their courts to the county jail complex citing legal concerns and alleged discrimination. Constable Connie Pogue backs the plan to relocate to the Detention and Courts Building to ease courthouse overcrowding, while Esquivel warns of possible legal action. The vote by Commissioners Court on the plan is anticipated, with broader implications for marriage license operations and jail-adjacent offices.
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O'Lenestone
Justice of the Peace
Rudy Esquivel
Commissioners Court
J. P
Jimmie” Gutierrez
Justice Courts of
Esquivel and
Gutierrez
Connie Pogue
Esquivel
Anglo Jps
Fehi
Jawauii
Pogue
Commissiters Court
Aquifer Protection Order Faces Public Hearing In Texas
TWQB Executive Director Hugh Yantis said plans are under way for a public hearing on the Edwards Underground Aquifer order. The hearing could consider giving county governments veto power over provisions, shifting control from metropolitan areas to county commissioners. The process may add policy clauses from the Texas Water Quality Act and address land ownership rights, with a date and location to be announced as soon as possible.
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Ime Labs
Aveta Bureau
Austin
Texas Water Quality Board
Edwards
TWQB
Hugh Yantis
Mandatory retirement hurts many federal workers, says Beil
Orion E. Beil Lubbock, president of the Texas Federation of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees, told a convention that compulsory retirement is one of the worst injustices in America. He argued no single age fits all and warned forced retirements sap lifelong productivity causing many to lose interest in living and die shortly after. He cited more than 8,000 Texas federal retirees and noted retirement ages of 70 for federal workers and 65 for Texas state workers. He urged that the test should be ability and desire to work, not an arbitrary age.
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Morris Willson
Semployes Association
Orion E. Beil Lubbock
Texas Federation of the National Association of Retired Federal Employes
America
Bell
Texas
Water permit suit filed over South Texas Nuclear Project
A Texas water permit dispute in Travis County court challenges a WRC grant for the CPS led nuclear project in Matagorda County. The suit, by Bill Schieffelin for ACLU Texas on behalf of G Barrie Kitty and others, seeks a rehearing and renewal of WRC procedures rather than halting construction. The case also scrutinizes a proposed LCRA sale of saline water worth about 330 to 56 million over six years and a transfer of the WRC permit to LCRA, with a rehearing granted after concern over LCRA authority.
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Tresigh
Dus Bureau
Austin
South Texas
Travis County
Lard District
Bill Schieffelin
The
American, Civil Liberties Foundation of Texas, Inc
G. Barrie Kitty
Texas Water Rights Commission
WRC
Matagorda County
San Antonio
City Public Service
CPS
Jake Duncan
Texas Civil Liberties Union
Colorado
Lower
Colorado River Authority
LCRA
Tyne
Atty. Gan Sohn
Hill Hill
New TMS President Named
The Rev A Nelson Daunt named president of Texas Military Institute effective June 15. He succeeds retiring President Leonard Duce and comes from Bishop Whipple Shools, Faribault Minnesota, where he was chaplain and associate headmaster. Daunt, an Ireland native, has served as rector in multiple communities, led youth programs, directed camps, and held church and civic roles including US Commission on Civil Rights and service on boards such as USO Red Cross and United Way.
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Nelson Baunt
Texas Military Institute
TMS
Harold Gosnel
Episcopal Diocese of
West Texas
Daunt
Pr. Leonard Duce
Whipple Shhoals
Faribault
Minn
Ireland
United States
Bunkie
Georgetown
S.C. Alming
Gasind Queen Anne Parish
United States Commission On Civil Rights
The
Beer
USO
Red Cross
United Way
Rate Study Grant Sought by Public Services Agency
Public Services seeks a 617000 grant from a federal energy program for a rate study. The study would analyze budget billing for low income gas customers, time of day pricing, heat pump and solar impacts on rates, and effects of CPS summer rate changes.
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Ry Public Services
Federal Energy
Adtushire
Cornu
Torral Studios
CPS
Grrovicly
No Sign of Settlement in 200 Million Gas Case
Pre trial in the citys 200 million damage suit against its natural gas supplier produced no signs of settlement. Lawyers for LoWVaca Gathering Co Coastal States Gas Producing Co and for the city and City Public Service met in 161th District Court for a weekly status hearing. District Judge Peter Michael Corry ordered continued pretrial activities despite a Texas Railroad Commission order that could affect the case.
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Lowvaca Gathering Co
Coastal States. Gas Producing Co
161Th District Court
Dist
Judga
Peter Michael Corry
Texas Railroad Commission
Sul Galy
Comisaton
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