Connally Tax Plan Seeks Liquor By The Drink Vote
Gov. John Connally proposes a $144.2 million tax package including a local option to sell liquor by the drink and tighter liquor regulations. The plan also shifts farm road financing to the highway fund and raises gasoline and spirits taxes while repealing several existing exemptions. He urges equity with minimal burdens and declines a state tuition increase.
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Texas
John Connally
Highway Fund
House Revenue and Tax Committee
Connally
House
Senate
Highway Department
Card of Thanks to Friends and Family
Dollie M Standley thanks friends for cards flowers food and prayers during hospital stay and after returning home. Mrs Gene Virden and family join in gratitude. May God bless each reader.
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Vance Wilson
Joe B. Wilson
Ito
Gene Virden
Dollie M. Standley
Legislature seeks emergency interim pay raise for state workers
The Legislature unanimously asks the governor to submit an emergency plan for an interim pay raise for all state employees. Connally did not mention it in his address. A raise to take effect immediately would require $5.5 million in general revenue. Connally’s plan calls for an average 20 percent raise, with variations by salary group. Lower paid workers would rise from 2640 to 3024 dollars annually. high brackets from 12830 to 17784 dollars. The governor also boosted spending by $19 million for welfare grants and Title 19 aid.
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Connally
Texas agriculture falls short of potential by billions, report says
The Texas House Interim Committee on Agriculture finds actual production lags by up to a billion dollars annually, signaling that Texas agriculture is operating far below potential. The findings point to inefficiencies and missed opportunities across the sector.
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Texas Agriculture
House Interim Committee On Agriculture
Agriculture committee urges board and funding measures
The committee proposes a Coordinating Board to set agriculture goals and compile annual county-by-ccounty agri business statistics for planning. It also recommends passing legislation to allow agriculture to fund its own research and promotion efforts.
Attorney General Speaks On Loyalty Oath And More
Attorney General Crawford C. Martin says state colleges no longer require a loyalty oath for students or faculty, noting the 1949 act was narrowed in 1953 to cover only paid staff. He also discusses salaries for county juvenile board judges, depredation permits, probation eligibility after suspension, inheritance tax rules, and Presidio County Hospital District taxation.
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Atty
Martin
Parks and Wildlife Department
Dimmitt
Uvalde
Zavala
Guadalupe Mountain lands face park status debate in Texas
The proposal to convert Guadalupe Mountain lands into a national park stalls as Land Commissioner Jerry Sadler urges a state park option before the Senate Committee on Counties. The committee had tentatively endorsed the bill pending a corrective amendment to address potential changes.
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Guadalupe Mountain
Texas
Jerry Sadler
Senate Committee On Counties
Safeguard Proposal For State Oil Mineral Bounty
Sadler urged a safeguard against future federal laws that could deprive the state of its oil and mineral bounty. He also contended that minerals alone could quickly pay for a state owned park in the Guadalupe Mountain area. The committee decided to hold the bill for a hearing and further action later.
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Sadler
Guadalupe Mountain
Texas redistricting reform eyed after court rulings
Supreme Court decisions invalidating district disparities of 12.8 and 10.4 percent in Indiana and Missouri could restart Texas reapportionment debates. House Speaker Ben Barnes fears the court may reject the 1965 Texas redistricting acts. Rep. Gus Mutscher proposes three study groups to set districting guidelines and sample legislators on district opinions.
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Supreme Court
Indiana
Missouri
Texas
Ben Barnes
Gus Mutscher
Brenham
House
Houston
Mutscher
Texas Intervenes in Maryland Suit Against Wirtz
Texas has entered as a party in a U.S. District Court in Maryland suit against W. Willard Wirtz, secretary of labor, seeking to influence the outcome or defense of the case.
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Texas
U.S. District Court of
Maryland
W. Willard Wirtz
State officials reshuffle with Pardons Board picks and parole chief
Judge K K Woodley reappoints A C Turner to the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. Pat Bullock of Colorado City named Board chair for two year term ending February 1 1969 while James Berger of Austin becomes Director of Parole Supervision. Traffic authorities project 6 700 000 Texas motor vehicle registrations in 1967 and urge early license plate purchases. Senate confirms Burton G Hackney Brownfield as state commissioner of public welfare and state board of insurance amid auto rate regulation debate.
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Bor
J A. C. Turner
Walker Couny
K. K. Woodley
Court of Criminal Appeals
State Board of Pardons and Paroles
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Pat Bullock
Colorado City
James Berger
Austin
Texas Highway Department
Texas
Senate
Burton G. Hackney
Brownfield
State Board of Insurance
Kraatz Chaney Wedding Attended by Distant Kin
Weekend visitors at the Kraatz home included Mr. and Mrs. R. D. White and daughter Connie of Texarkana, Rev. and Mrs. Joe Kraatz of Bridge City, and Ronald Kraatz a Texas University student in Austin. They attended the Kraatz-Chaney wedding Friday evening.
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Walter Kraatz
R. D. White
Connie
Texarkana
Joe Kraatz
Bridge City
Ronald Kraatz
Texas University
Austin
Kraatz-Chaney
Winters Enterprise: Winters TX Page 4 February 10 1967
Local newspaper page header notes the edition date February 10 1967 for Winters Enterprise in Winters Texas. no article content provided to summarize.
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Winters Enterprise
Texas
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