State Capital Highlights Texas Needs $215 Million More
The Texas State Finance Advisory Commission reports the state must secure 215 million in new funds over 1961 63 to cover debts and needed improvements. It endorses a one percent state payroll tax with half paid by employers and half by employees and suggests other measures including higher selective sales taxes and tuition hikes.
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Texas
State Finance Advisory Commission
Price Daniel
Commission
Commission estimates total new needs and possible revenues
The commission projects total new needs at 259 million dollars and potential income from existing sources at up to 44 million, reducing the remaining amount to 215 million. A payroll tax could yield 217 million in the next two years.
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General Revenue Fund
State Hospital Board urged to seek new Gulf Coast school
The board faces a push to add a $1.5 million school for mentally challenged children in the 1961 63 budget after removal amid a large capital request. Harvey Phillips of the Texas Association for Retarded Children calls the need dire, noting long waiting lists. The group favors smaller schools in more locations over expanding existing ones with low cost housing.
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State Hospital Board
Gulf Coast Area
Harvey Phillips
Texas Association For
Phillips
Brokerage Loans Terminated By Texas Appeals Court
Austin Court of Civil Appeals upheld a district court ruling voiding a brokerage system used by loan firms. Attorney General Will Wilson said the Corpus Christi lender tied brokerage fees to Austin borrowers, calling the verdict a major victory against loan sharks. The Corpus Christi firm allegedly works with about 175 loan companies statewide.
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Austin Court of Civil Appeals
Atty
Will Wilson
Austin
Corpus Christi
Wilson
Letters to Santa Claus and the Rural Library Snippets
A collection of Christmas wish lists from children naming specific toys and requests. Included are notes from Susan Easterly Elizabeth Ann Guy Jan Robinson Dee Ann Byers Aletha Whittenburg Kay Lynn Rives Sherry and David Standley, plus a news brief on Rural Library Service financing and administrative changes. Also mentions court action and a state school audit.
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Santa
Elizabeth Ann Guy
Teachers Rebuff State Finance Panel On Education Funding
Texas Teachers Association officials including TSTA President Richard Bowles critique the State Finance Advisory Commission for offering only half of the proposed base teacher pay raise. They report education funding would be $57.5 million for the biennium, far short of the $160 million sought, equating to about $10 per student. Bowles notes the commission’s $3,600 minimum pay falls $400 short of the $4,000 goal supported by TSTA and others. TSTA will present its full plan to the 57th Legislature, backed by thousands of Texas citizens.
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TSTA
Richard Bowles
Austin
Governor's Citizen Commission
Bowles
Texas
Commission
Texas Congress of Parents and Teachers
Hale- Aikin
Texas teachers seek funding to boost pay and bus costs
The TSTA program urges Texans to support better educational opportunities with a starting bachelor salary of 4014 dollars, up from 3204, a 380 dollar bus cost increase, and an average 125 dollar raise for teacher maintenance and operation.
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Texas
Holiday Visitors From Smyrna and Arlington
Holiday visitors expected in the home of Mr and Mrs Mord Tucker include Capt and Mrs Gilmore Sanders and family of Smyrna Tennessee and Mr and Mrs Bob Duncan and family of Arlington. The Sanders will also visit in the home of his parents Mr and Mrs Henry Sanders.
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Mord Tucker
Gilmore Sanders
Smyrna
Tenn
Bob Duncan
Arlington
Sanders
Henry Sanders
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Vern Sanford
Texas Press Association
Patterson's
Humble Service Station
Bethlehem
Cashway Food Store
Joe May
ADC
State Welfare Department
U. S. Supreme Court
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University of Texas
Guy B. Harrison
Waco
State Library Commission
State Library
Santa Claus
Susan Easterly
Jan Robinson
Robin
Dee Ann Byers
Tanya
Love, Aletha Whittenburg
Rickey Scott
Kay Lynn Rives
Rural Library Service
Stanley Banks, Sr
San Antonio
Harrison
Short Snorts Court of Criminal Appeals
Houston
Jerry Sadler
Tom Stilwell
Palestine
Land Office
Stilwell
Abilene State School
C. H. Cavness
Cavness
Emloyee
Sherry
David
David Standley
Texas State Teachers Association
State Finance Advisory Commission For
Star of Bethlehem
The
Winters State Bank
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve System
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