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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1965
Page
3
Governor John Connally signed a bill to establish an 18 member board to oversee 22 state supported colleges and 32 community junior colleges, replacing the Texas Commission on Higher Education. The measure, prioritized in his program, grants broad powers over degree programs and curricula.
Rep. C. Alaniz of San Antonio invites hundreds from across Texas to two rallies in Austin on March 13 to back his minimum wage bill. The measure, stalled in Rep. Gene Hendryx’s House Labor Committee, could set the minimum wage at 42.5 cents an hour. Alaniz argues poverty drives social ills and cites about 1.5 million Texas workers earning under 1.25 dollars per hour and roughly 600,000 earning far less.
Texas legislators clash over education funding and a GOP redistricting plan. Rep Frank will argue resources are wasted on competition between schools, while a new oil and gas lease pooling bill advances. The measure envisions I-beam districts enabling acreage pooling to boost regional oil activity across Dallas Fort Worth area counties.
Sen. Tower of Texas introduced a bill to bar paying wages above local rates to war on poverty enrollees. He criticized the Labor Department for using a $1.25 minimum wage nationwide and urged a law to keep volunteers in the anti poverty program from political activity without bipartisan local approval. He cited a plan to use volunteers in San Antonio to register migrant laborers as voters.
Former GOP congressman Bruce Alger to manage development of residential, industrial and shopping center property in Colorado Springs in an area known as Kissing Camels Estates. Alger, defeated for reelection last year, keeps his legal residence in Dallas. Yard Service Men listed in The Business & Service Directory offer a slavery yard.
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