Welfare Amendment a Texas Win for Poor Families
Public Welfare Commissioner Burton G. Hackney hailed the welfare ceiling increase as the top vote getter in nine amendments, saying the change benefits poor families labeled born losers. The measure drew over 400,000 votes, about two to one, amid a year of welfare funding crises and past cuts that affected 2,600 families on May 1 and about 20,000 more with $12 per child reductions.
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Ken Siner
Associated Press
Texas
Burton G. Hackney
Hackney
U. S. Supreme Court
This Day In History August 6 1969 and Earlier Events
Highlights of notable events on August 6 include the first use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, Napoleon’s empire dissolution in 1806, Bolivia’s independence in 1825, Woodrow Wilson’s first lady death in 1914, and war declarations between Austria and Russia in 1914. Additional items cover World War II Africa opening, a presidential wedding in 1966, Soviet book display ban in Moscow, the Penn murder case in 1970, and Eisenhower’s chest pains in 1969.
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U. S
Hiroshima
Japan
Napoleon Bonaparte
Holy Roman Empire
Bolivia
Peru
Woodrow Wilson
White House
Austria
Russia
United States
British Somaliland
Luci Baines Johnson
Patrick John Nugent
Washington
Soviet Union
Moscow
FBI
Georgia
Lemuel E. Penn
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Weather outlook for Texas regions through Thursday
The report shows hot and mostly clear conditions across Northwest to West Texas with highs mostly in the mid to high 90s and lows in the 60s to 70s. Some areas, like South Central and Southeast Texas, expect partial cloudiness with possible daytime showers near the coast. Northeast and North Central Texas stay hot and fair, while West of the Pecos notes late thundershowers over mountains.
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Snyder
Northwest
Texas
North
South
Southwest
The
Pecos
House Committee UKs Tax Debate Stirs Texas Tax Bill
The House leadership moved to floor debate on a $328.4 million tax measure of new consumer taxes. The plan includes raising the sales tax to 3.2 percent, broadening the base to services, increasing cigarette tax, phasing out the chain store tax, and adding a 32 percent entertainment tax. The Revenue and Taxation Committee approved it with one dissent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Jones
Gus Mutscher
J. Mutscher
Ben Barnes
Mutscher
R. H. Cory
Victoria
New Car Price Increase Foreshadowed by Industry Talks
Detroit AP reports industry insiders foresee a series of price and cost hikes for 1970 car models. Steel price jumps of $6 to $8 per ton, rising labor costs under UAW contracts, new fringe benefits, drug costs, and a nine-cent hourly cost of living adjustment plus a 3 percent annual improvement factor will lift the current $3.83 base wage to $4.04 in the final year of the contracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A.F. Mahan
Associated Press
Detroit
United Auto Workers Union
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Texas voters reject water plan while approving welfare rise
In Texas, voters defeated the Texas Water Plan constitutional amendment by about 5 545 votes as welfare ceilings were raised by nearly two to one for a 20 million boost to aid needy children and survivors of workers killed on hazardous duty. They also rejected legislator pay raises and bond changes while approving student loan fund expansion and bond cleanup.
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Texas Water Plan
Texas Election Bureau
Texas
Water Plan
Scurry County Voters Back Six Amendments in Ballot
In Scurry and Borden counties voters approved six of nine constitutional amendments while statewide results favored four, with two proposals rejected locally. Notable strong support came for Amendment 2 water development authority. Amendment 3 failed in Scurry and Borden. Turnout was light with about 1,200 votes in Scurry and 155 in Borden.
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Scurry
Borden County
Borden
Scurry and
Scurry County
Borden Counties
Water Development Authority
Loyd Mountain
Bison
China Grove
Inadale
South Snyder
Camp Springs
Southwest Snyder
Crowder
Woman Joins Isolated Apollo Quarantine Group
Apollo 11 astronauts finish a 10 day de brief and moon sample analyses in quarantine at Space Center Houston. Heather Owens joins 20 others after exposure to lunar material. three technicians also exposed in a cargo lab leak.
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Howard Benedict
AP Aerospace Winter Space Center
Houston
Apollo 11
Heather Owens
Neil A. Armstrong
Edwin E. Aldrin Jr
Michael Collins
Armstrong
Aldrin
Miss Owens
Chauncey Park
Ray Coons
Riley Wilson
Miss Owen
John McLeaish
Pacific Recovery Area
Green Beret commander charged in Vietnam murder case
Col. Robert B. Rheault of Vineyard Haven Massachusetts and seven Green Beret staffers face murder charges in connection with a Vietnamese man’s death. In other battles U S and South Vietnamese troops report 70 enemy killed with U S losses of one killed and five wounded, twenty one more Americans wounded in rocket and mortar attacks. Da Nang area sees F4 Phantom downed 65 miles south and an army helicopter shot down 40 miles south with two fliers killed.
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Saigon
Robert B. Rheault
Vineyard Haven
Mass
U.S
Vietnam
Green Berets
DA Nang
Jr High Band Programs Set by Lamar and Travis Schools
Lamar and Travis Junior Highs announce a two week summer band program starting Monday August 11. Directors Jerry Roe and Bob Chapman outline schedules for both schools with 8th and 9th grade bands 8 10 execution, 7th grade brass 10 15, and 7th grade woodwind 1 15.
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Lamar
Travis
Bob Chapman
Jerry Roe
Services Set For Mrs. Durwood Watson of Hermleigh
Mrs. Durwood Watson 82 of Hermleigh died Tuesday at Simmons Memorial Hospital in Sweetwater. Funeral at 3 p m Thursday at Central Baptist Church Hermleigh with Rev L R Stuckey and Rev Fred Boatman officiating. Burial in Helmleigh Cemetery. Survived by three daughters two sons ten grandchildren four great grandchildren. Dinner to follow at Helmleigh Community Center.
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Durwood Watson
Hermleigh
Simmons Memorial Hospital
Sweetwater
Central Baptist Church
Montague County
Durwood E. Watson
Norton
A. A. Carroll
Littlerock
Ark
H. J. Head
Houston
E. E. Watts
Big Spring
Foster Watson
Helmleigh
Bob Watson
W. E. Dorsett
Lubbock
J. E. Hardin
Abernathy
Charles Rhodes
Mollie Mitchell
J. H. Osborn
Glenrose
Helmleigh Community Center
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Richard Nixon
Bucharest
Hungary
House Committee
Ok’s Welfare Hire
Robert E. Ford
States
Canada
Panhandle
High Plains
el Paso
Louisiana
Watson
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