State insurers forecast rate cuts and new pools amid price controls
The Texas State Insurance Board and lawmakers push for lower homeowners and auto coverage as Nixon Phase 2 rules cut trends and flood disaster pools. AIA backs at least 25 percent no fault cuts. May 1 rate releases set for June 1. The coast catastrophe pool faces proposed 33 percent reductions while oil and marine discharge rules stir education and enforcement. Crude stockpiles and production limits show tight markets with 4,074,850 barrels daily maximum for March.
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Nixon
State
Texas
American Insurance Association
Federal Price Commission
State Insurance Board
State Board of Insurance
Byron Tunnell
Tunnell
Texas seeks extension to avoid 24 million highway penalty
Gov. Preston Smith pressed U S Transportation Secretary John Volpe to push back the deadline for prohibitions on billboard erection near interstates and primary highways. A May 31 deadline was proposed, with Smith seeking September 1 to align with the new fiscal year and possible special legislative session to fund the year. Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes urged immediate action to avert the penalty. Parks and Wildlife head James Cross reported the Railroad Commission overruled 100 public objections to brine discharges.
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Texas
Preston Smith
U. S
John Volpe
Transportation Department
Smith
Ben Barnes
Parks and Wildlife Department
James Cross
Senate
Railroad Commission
Texas Opinion Summaries On Elections and State Agencies
Atty. Gen. Crawford Martin says the state cannot fund primary elections without legislative authorization. Dallas federal court is asked for guidance. Other opinions note the Legislative Property Tax Committee may hire attorneys and obtain a law library, and must source supplies through the State Board of Control. Texas State Technical Institute lacks authority to grant baccalaureate degrees at its Waco campus. State boards must approve loans for wastewater facilities. A private non profit water supplier cannot receive state financial aid. Texas Railroad Commission.
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Crawford Martin
Dallas
Martin
James S. Bates
Edinburg
State Board of Control
Texas State Technical Institute
James Connally
Waco
Texas Water Quality Board and Water Development Board
Texas Water Quality Board to rewrite feed lot rule
Board members ordered to rewrite a proposed regulation that would let Executive Director Hugh Yantis issue or deny feed lot permits. Ecologists and cattle and poultry raisers oppose giving Yantis authority without notice or public hearing. Industry spokesmen doubt compliance and oppose defining agricultural wastes as ecological contaminants.
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Texas Water Quality Board
WQB
Hugh Yantis
Yantis
Texas Red Wolf Earning Recognition
Texans question whether the Texas red wolf can be saved as the remaining individual faces a threatened future. The lone wolf of Canis rufus has suffered through shooting poisoning and trapping, shrinking its range to a marshy coastal belt across six counties.
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Texas
Court reverses film exhibitor's obscenity conviction
A Corpus Christi film projectionist convicted of exhibiting obscene movies had the judgment reversed by the Court of Criminal Appeals, marking a higher court ruling on the obscenity case.
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Corpus Christi
Court of Criminal Appeals
Governor appoints first Texas student to state regents board
Governor Smith names Richard Allen Moore III a 28 year old black UT law student as the first Texas student to serve on a state university board of regents at Texas Southern University in Houston. Wells Stewart of Houston is reap pointed to the same board. Margarette Mayhall Austin Dr Aram Glorig Dallas and Dr Harold Williams El Paso are reappointed to the Texas Board of Examiners in the fitting and dispensing of hearing aids.
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Texas
State University Board of
Richard Allen Moore III
University of Texas
Moore
Texas Southern University
Houston
Wells Stewart
Margarette E. Mayhall
Austin
Aram Glorig
Dallas
Harold N. Williams
el Paso
Texas Board of Examiners
Red wolves face possible decline amid state study
The article notes perhaps only about 100 red wolves remain in the state and questions whether numbers will rise or fall. Scientific work underway aims to better understand the wolf’s habits, with Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine detailing findings by Dennis N. Russell and James H. Shaw. Shaw has trapped wolves and fitted them with transmitter collars for tracking.
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Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine
Dennis N. Russell
James H. Shaw
Yale University School of Forestry
Shaw
Local wolf management gains support in Winters area
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission passed a resolution commending landowners in the wolf range for voluntary efforts to preserve the species. The resolution also created a Voluntary Red Wolf Management Area to help identify the animal's known range.
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Texas Parks and’ Wildlife Commission
Texas Supreme Court to rule on parking lot dispute
The Texas Supreme Court will hear March 22 arguments on whether Southwestern Bell Telephone Co may build a parking lot at its Spring Valley office after the city said no. The court also considers Rusk Mayor E H Whitehead’s bid for the legislature in District 15 with a decision due before February 28. A March 15 appeal concerns Odessa city charter injury damages on minors.
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Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
Spring Valley
High Court
Rusk
E. H. Whitehead
Leon
Houston
Limestone
Cherokee
Supreme Court
Odessa
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