Allred Proposes Legislative Program in Final Texas Messages
Gov James V Allred releases a sequence of state government messages as he nears January 17 retirement to become Houston federal judge The tone is judicial rather than crusading and outlines problems with recommended remedies and legislative alternatives, seen as a strong planning agenda for the session and a detached approach by the outgoing chief executive.
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James V. Allred
Texas
Federal District Court
Houston
Allred
Governor Urges Revenue and Appropriations for Social Security Plan
The governor presses funds for completing the social security program and related aids. He calls for state support for aid for the blind and dependent children, teachers retirement, and expanded eleemosynary institutions. He estimates five million dollars annually is needed to finish the social security program. He seeks statutes to settle who fixes per capita school apportionment, ending the Board of Education and Automatic Tax Board dispute.
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Board of Education
Automatic Tax Board
Texas Proration Orders Highlight Oil Debate and Charter Shifts
The Texas Railroad Commission issued a three month order maintaining current production and weekday shutdowns amid a major proration hearing that drew national industry leaders. Interstate Oil Compact seeks a two year charter extension as cooperation grows among producing states. Chairman Ernest Thompson and Lon Smith lead the commission while C V Terrell is absent. Jerry Sadler’s arrival signals harmony on personnel. Olin Culberson is slated to remain, continuing his role in gas utility rate reductions.
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Texas
Textbook spending limits and negro professional education urged
A speaker urged lawmakers to cap per student textbook costs funded by ad valorem taxes and to ensure negroes are educated in professional fields in line with a Supreme Court ruling. He noted Texas lacks provisions for negroes to pursue engineering, law, or medicine in state institutions and remains barred from such schools.
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Supreme Court
Texas
Paul E. Muret Picked for State Labor Commissioner
Paul E. Muret, a San Antonio union leader, is reported as the choice of Lee O'Daniel for State Labor Commissioner to succeed Fred Nichols of Waxahachie. Dr. George W. Cox was reap pointed for a two year term as State Health Officer by the State Health Board. The Court of Criminal Appeals held that it is not illegal to have hard liquor on beer tavern premises under current Texas law, noting a conflict between statutes and urging legislative correction. Texas also lost a bid to obtain one of the U.S. cotton laboratories.
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Paul E. Muret
San Antonio
Lee O’daniel
Fred Nichols
Waxahachie
George W. Cox
State Health Board
Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals
U.S
Cotton Uses Topic Highlighted by Texas Leader
A. M. Goldstein of Waco chairs the cotton laboratory committee citing cotton uses and Texas as a leading producer. Bill Graves, Dallas senator, warned county officials to avoid Austin lobbying trips. Last session Dallas County officials spent much time lobbying for local bills, prompting Austinites to joke they were lawmakers.
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Texas
A. M. Goldstein
Waco
Bill Graves
Dallas
Austin
Wallace warns proposed farm changes would harm nation
Secretary Wallace said substitutes for the existing agricultural program would be disastrous and costly. His annual 1938 report defends soil conservation farm tenancy and allied programs while predicting economic planning sustains democracy. He argued the AAA must be amended or repealed as Congress prepares to convene.
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Sec. of Agri
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Agriculture Department
Agricultural Administration
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Rice and Light Tobacco Growers Reject AAA Marketing Controls
Cotton growers accepted them, however. The secretary made vague references to possible legislative recommendations. He did, however, recommend enactment of processing taxes to provide a continuing source of revenue for parity payments. Such a tax is one important thing missing from our present farm program.
Women Ruled Off Texas Jury Lists
In Dallas the Fifth Court of Civil Appeals denied a mandamus to force inclusion of Stella Glover in the jury wheel. The court upheld a district court ruling that under the Constitution the state may exclude women from jury service, placing the duty on men.
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Texas
Fifth Court of Civil Appeals
Stella Glover
Paine L. Bush
Ben Looney
Chaplin on Christmas Treats in London School Days
Beverley Nichols quotes Charlie Chaplin recalling a rare Christmas treat in London’s East End. He describes plans to savor an orange and a packet of sweets over weeks, but ends up with two classmates sharing their sweets, turning the memory into a poignant, modest holiday vignette.
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Beverley Nichols
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