Price Questions Morality Legality of Poor Peoples Campaign
Washington report shows Rep. Bob Price probing the Poor Peoples Campaign led by Rev. Ralph Abernathy. Demonstrators in Resurrection City challenge permit limits near the Lincoln Memorial and plan a June 19 Texas march while protesting welfare policy at the Capitol.
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Albert Watson
South Carolina
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Alexandria
Virginia
Rev. Nunn
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America
Nunn
Texas Constitutional Revision Commission Faces Long Road Ahead
Austin reports the Texas Constitutional Revision Commission wrapped up winter and spring sessions with tentative votes but no decisive changes. Key debates included judges elected by voters versus five member commissions, governor power limits, and proposed four year terms. A volatile special session looms June 4 to pass a $2.5 billion budget and tax measures, plus liquor by the drink issues and riot control bills.
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Hank) Brown
San Antonio
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Dick Cory
Victoria
Legislative Budget Board
Connally
Crawford Martin
Have-nots Seek Looted Property After Course Loss
A quotation by D. E. Scott decries the rise of new Have-nots as former students of a course lose titles and loot, describing a class entitled to a looter's license and their visits to sites of past property.
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D. E. Scott
New Texas junior colleges seek state funding and new campuses
The court rules provide 32,309 in state funds for four junior colleges based on full time student equivalents. Aimed at seven proposed new state colleges the Higher Education Coordinating Board recommends a 201 million program for 1973 to 1977 with openings planned in San Antonio, Midland Odessa, Dallas Fort Worth area, and Houston. Public hearings run June 15 to July 10 with final board action anticipated by August.
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Galveston Community College
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Court upholds votes removal in Howard write-in case
The Texas Supreme Court upheld an intermediate court ruling that nine votes should be struck from Frances E. Howard in a write-in bid for Presidio County commissioner. The case turned on a notary public who assisted absentee voters by writing his name for them.
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Supreme Court
High Court
David Fuentes
Presidio County
Intermediate Court
Frances E. Howard
Weiting
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