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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1967
Page
2
Christian couple sought to supervise a 32 boy dormitory with 11 days on and 3 off. Salary and full maintenance provided. Apply to West Texas Boys Ranch P O Box 1624 San Angelo Texas or call 915 949 3707.
State Highway Engineer Dewitt C. Greer retires after reaching the 65 age limit but stays until year end. Gov. Smith proclaims August 4 as Dewitt C. Greer Day as the Texas Highway Department marks 50 years with a lectureship endowment in his honor. Greer led Texas highways from 1940, overseeing a system growth to 68 000 miles and earning top national honors. He is an A&M alumnus and has ties to the American Association of State Highway Officials.
J C Dingwall will succeed Greer as assistant state highway engineer on January 1. He has four years with the Department of Engineers and four years with the U S Army Corps of Engineers and four years with the Texas Turnpike Authority supervising the Dallas Fort Worth Turnpike project. Dingwall also served as supervising urban engineer in Houston overseeing the Gulf Freeway. Hal Woodward of Coleman was sworn in as chairman of the Highway Commission and Herbert C Perry Jr of Carrizo Springs began a third six year term on the Commission.
The School Land Board approved a transfer giving the United States rights to minerals under 47 895 acres in Guadalupe County, outlining the government’s ownership scope and boundaries of the grant.
Two days of hearings October 17 18 are planned by the Texas Water Rights Commission on proposed cancellations of unused Rio Grande water rights. The commission will apply the Water Rights Adjudication Act to Rio Grande rights first. The item also notes findings against Brazoria County Water Control and Improvement District No 8 for various governance and tax issues.
The State of Texas sues five major drug companies in federal court in Dallas over price fixing. Attorney General Crawford C. Martin seeks triple damages totaling about 12 million dollars from the Aureo producers.
All new 1968 RCA Victor Admiral and Olympic color televisions available with good trade in. Special prices on Whirlpool washers dryers and refrigerators during NBC Week starting September tenth.
Attorney General Martin says federal anti trust suits pending against Pfizer American Cyanamid Bristol Meyers Olin Mathieson Upjohn. He alleges the firms conspired to curb production and raise prices to governments wholesalers and consumers. Estimated state local government cost exceeds 3 million dollars from 1953 to 1966. Other states may join at the August conference in Portland Oregon.
Seventy eight health facilities have applied for federal Hill Burton construction grants totaling more than 34.5 million dollars, about double the expected Texas availability. The 1968 Texas State Plan for Construction and Modernization of Hospitals and Related Medical Facilities is now available for review at the State Department of Health.
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