New Texas Laws and Agencies Take Effect This Week
The 1957 Legislature enacts hundreds of laws effective Aug 22. Measures include stricter fireworks bans, reporter access to conventions, parental liability for minor property damage, 30 day garage monitoring, poison labeling, higher state college tuition, scratch ballot voting, runoff rules for certain elections, and higher license plate fees. Five new state agencies form, led by an independent securities commission. An adult parole division will monitor released prisoners, and a tax study commission will reassess the tax system with possible shifts in burdens. Additional agencies include the Texas Council on Migrant Labor.
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Independent Securities Commission
Secretary of State
Insurance Commission
Pardons and Paroles Board
Texas Research League
The
Texas Council On Migrant Labor
Cage plans to testify in ICT probe before Texas grand juries
Two Texas Grand Juries and a new House committee seek Cage testimony on ICT affairs with dates set for Aug 26 Aug 20 and Sept 3. Cage’s attorney cites travel. lawmakers warn of adjournment by Oct 1 amid a race to question Cage. Senate group may also hear from him as tied investigations unfold.
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Texas
BenJack Cage
Cage
Dallas Co
Travis Co
M. R. Irion
Los Angeles
Travis
Dallas County
Les Proctor
Austin
Travis County
Dallas
Henry Wade
New House General Investigating Committee
Texas Rangers
Department of Public Safety
Waggoner Carr
Reagan Huffman
Marshall
H. J. Blanchard
Lubbock
Carl C. Conley
Raymondville
William L. Elliott
Pasadena
Joe N. Chapman
Sulphur Springs
Charles Herring
Ben Ramsey
Senate
Herring
House
Culp Krueger
el Campo
Jarrard Secrest
Temple
Grady Hazlewood
Amarillo
Frank Owen III
el Paso
Church and lodge notices for Evadale and Silshee Lodge
The First Baptist Church of Evadale invites all to Sunday School at 10 a.m and worship at 11 a.m with evening service at 8 p.m. Midweek Brotherhood meetings at 6 15 p.m. plus WMU GA RA Sunbeams at 7 p.m. Silshee Lodge No 348 Knights of Pythias meets Tuesdays at 8 p.m. at Community Hall. visitors welcomed.
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First Baptist Church of
Evadale
Brotherhood
WMU
GARA
Sunbeams
G. Harding
Silshee Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Martin McKinney
Phillip McKinney
Fred Community Briefs School to Open September 3
Local notes report Mrs Arthur MeInnis and children J N Cravy Peggy Kef fel visiting Wood ville Beaumont Houston Fred Silsbee Conroe and Fred residents over the weekend. Fred and Warren schools set September 3 start with registration September 2 and buses to run regular routes per principal Uel Owens.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur MeInnis
J. N. Cravy
Peggy Keffel
Woodville
A. F. Shaw
Frances
J. N. MetInnis
H. H. Spurlock
Pete Callaway
Beaumont
Cora Callaway
Arthur Greenwood
Silsbee
Fred
Arthur MelInnis
Pegry Keffel
Joe Delgado
Jessie Knighten
Houston
Morris Harville
Conroe
L. S. Hutto
J. No McInnis
Fred and Warren
Uel Owens
Johnson Praises Water Bills for Texas Vital
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson says water bills are the most important in the current legislative session for Texas. He argues dams flood control and irrigation projects secure the state’s future and notes Texas must manage its water to sustain cotton and beef production amid booming cities. An estimated 750,000 Texans served in World War II.
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Lyndon BB. Johnson
Congress
Texas
Johnson
Texans
Sam Houston graduates large 1957 commencement set for August
Two Silsbee residents Clayton Z Pope and James Robert Flowers will receive degrees along with 281 seniors at Sam Houston State College August 23 at Pritchett Field Huntsville. Baccalaureate and commencement share the program with Rev W Y Pond Jr delivering the invocation. Dr F L McDonald Lamar Tech will speak. Over 500 family members are expected to attend. The note adds that the first modern cash register was patented by Jacob Ritty of Dayton Ohio in 1879.
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Sam Houston State College
Pritchett Field
Huntsville
Silsbee Area
Clayton Z. Pope
James Robert Flowers
Silsbee
Saratoga
W. Y. Pond, Jr
First Baptist Church of
F. L. McDonald
Lamar State College of Technology
Beaumont
WE. Lowery
Reed Lindsey
Harmon Lowman
Alpha Chi
W. FE. Lowery
Jacob Ritty
Dayton
Ohio
Live Well Now for a Longer Healthy Life
Guidance stresses choosing the right medicines with physician and pharmacist help. It urges prompt medical consultation when ill and adherence to simple rules of good living to avoid penalties in the future.
Prescription pickup and delivery offer for prescriptions
A local chemist encourages customers to pick up their prescriptions or have them delivered promptly at no extra charge. They note many people trust them to fill prescriptions and invite others to have theirs compounded.
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Vern Sanford
Texas Press Association
U. S. Senate
U. S. Trust and Guaranty
A&j Exterminating CO
W. E
Red” Anderson
Simmon's Water Well Service
Wwited States Brewers Foundation, Inc
San Jacinto
Austin, Texas
Service
Worthey Glass & Mirror
S. Second St
Newton Volunteer Fire Department
Southwestern Settlement & Development Company
East Texas Pulp & Paper Company
Charles Carter
Newton
Louis Didriksen
C. R. Crawford
SWSD
Alvin Sartain
Texas Historical Survey Commission
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
USDA
State Health Department
Henry A. Holle
State Water Board
Claude B. Tate
William A. Harrison
LaRoy Noyes
Livestock Sanitary Commission
Board of Control
Silsbee Lodge
A.F
A. M
Lewis Cole
Fred Community Briefs
Frances Metinniss
Arthur Melnnis
J. N
Z. Pope, James R. Flowers
Sam Houston
Fuller
Jean J. Rouwsseag
Owl
Silsbee Business College
Myrtle Thurman
Smith Hotel
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