Texas Governor Unveils Vast Water Plan for 2020 Needs
Gov. John Connally and the Texas Water Development Board released a sweeping plan to meet 2020 water demands for 30 million Texans. It proposes 54 major reservoirs a $1 billion waste-treatment system in 21 metros and a $1.5 billion pipeline canal network moving Red River water to Fort Worth Dallas Trinity Brazos Colorado Nueces basins with hearings in 27 cities beginning June 17 in Lubbock.
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Nueces
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Development Board
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Longview
Supreme Court rules mud flats not vacant school land
The court upheld lower rulings that Laguna Madre lands in Cameron County are not public school property to be sold or leased. The decision supports Land Commissioner Jerry Sadler who refused an application to buy a tract 15 miles northeast of Brownsville. The Third Court of Civil Appeals also transferred two small land sections from Friendship Rural High to Shallowater ISD, ruled the Pennsylvania Insurance Co cannot recover $101,589 in taxes on a merger firm, and ordered a reexamination of a Northwest Savings charter denial by the Savings and Loan Commissioner.
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State Supreme Court
Laguna Madre
Cameron County
Jerry Sadler
Brownsville
Third Court of Civil Appeals
Friendship Rural
Shallowater Independent
Lubbock County
Pennsylvania Insurance Company
Savings and Loan
James O. Gerst
Northwest Savings Association of Houston
Texas Woman's University Regents Appointments
Governor Connally appoints Mrs Raybourne Thompson Houston Wendell W Mayes Brownwood and E Gary Morrison Austin to the Board of Regents of Texas Woman's University Reagan Houston III San Antonio reappointed Mrs Gladys Drake to the Citizens Advisory Committee aiding the Legislative Council on Deaf Services Findings due to be reported to the 60th Legislature in January 1967
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Raybourne Thompson
Houston
Wendell W. Mayes
Brownwood
E. Gary Morrison
Austin
Connally
Board of Regents of
Texas Woman’s University
Reagan Houston III
San Antonio
Gladys Drake
Preston Smith
Citizens
Texas Legislative Council
Texas Defense Spending Up Across State Bases
Texas defense contract spending rose in the first three quarters of the current fiscal year to 1.5 billion dollars, 7.5 percent of the national total, up from 1.1 billion and 7.3 percent the year before. Fort Bliss leads with 4.9 million, followed by Fort Hood 1.8 million and Bergstrom 4.4 million, with Carswell also listed.
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U. S
Texas
Senate
Fort Bliss
Fort Hood
Bergstrom Air Force Base
Carswell
Air Force Base Funds Allocation Totals Revealed
The document lists funding figures for multiple bases including Kelly AFB at 1.2 million, Sheppard AFB at 1.9 million, Laughlin AFB 675 thousand, Reese AFB 546 thousand, Perrin AFB 61 thousand, Webb AFB 226 thousand, Randolph AFB 236 thousand, Laredo AFB 450 thousand, Ran dolph AFB 236 thousand, and Chase Field Naval Auxiliary Station at 93 thousand, among others.
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Laredo Afb
Laughlin Afb
Randolph Afb
Sheppard Afb
Perrin Afb
Reese Afb
Webb Afb
Naval Auxiliary Station
Chase Field
Attorney General Issues rulings on fees and tax exemptions
Attorney General Wag Crawford rules that $3 fees and court costs may be taxed in misdemeanor traffic cases and peace bond proceedings. Other opinions address reuse of an old capitol fence at the governor’s mansion, UH construction projects not covered by local ordinances, and tax payment obligations of Gary Job Corps Center operators.
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Carr
Capitol Ground
Governor’s Mansion
University of Houston
Houston, LaMarque
Clear Lake City
Texas Education Foundation, Inc
Gary Job Corps Training Center
Texas 65 Health Insurance Ends Premium Collection
The Texas 65 Health Insurance Association will discontinue premium collection as it ends July 1 and shifts to Medicare. Although coverages cease on July 1, the program will remain to process claims incurred before Medicare's start.
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Texas 65 Health Insurance Association
Association
Texas
Medicare
Texas 65
Texas Commission bans unlined oil field brine pits in 13 West Texas counties
The Railroad Commission barred unlined disposal pits for oil field brine across 13 West Texas counties near the Ogallala formation. In three orders the agency cited groundwater pollution and threatened to cut pipeline connections if pits were not filled by the deadline in Hemphill Swisher Bailey Cochran Dawson Gaines Hale Hockley Lynn Terry Yoakum Andrews and Martin Counties.
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Texas Railroad Commission
West Texas
Ogallala
Commission
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Swisher
Bailey
Cochran
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Gaines
Hale
Hockley
Lynn
Terry
Yoakum
Andrews
Martin
Attorney General assigns Fender to aid Limestone County in Mexia School inquiry
Attorney General Carr assigns Howard M. Fender to assist Limestone County Attorney Holloway Martin Jr in the investigation of alleged irregularities at Mexia State School for the mentally retarded. Texas seeks wholesale consolidation of small independent school districts with under 500 students per Dr. J. W. Edgar. Parks and Wildlife will discuss game and fish regulations for 184 counties in a public airing.
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Carr
Howard M. Fender
Limestone County
Holloway Martin Jr
Martin
Mexia State
Texas
J. W. Edgar
Parks and Wildlife Department
State hearings set for June through June nine
The article notes hearings over state matters scheduled for June 6 to 9. It also states that business activity declined by one percent last month while April’s index value was the fourth highest since World War II and second highest in its history. Twenty four Texas colleges received 493,503 dollars in supplemental authorizations and grants from the U.S. Office of Education to expand summer work study programs paying 90 percent of payrolls for needy students.
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Texas
U.S. Office of Education
Cotton farmers get 15 extra days to plant deadlines extended
Agriculture Commissioner John White extended planting deadlines by 15 days to midnight June 4 for 25 Central and Coastal Bend counties. Austin Brazoria Chambers Colorado Fayette Fort Bend Galveston Gonzales Harris Jefferson Lavaca Liberty Matagorda Orange Walker Washington Wharton Bastrop Caldwell Comal Guadalupe Hays Lee Travis Williamson.
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Bend
J. C
John) White
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Brazoria
Chambers
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Fayette
Fort Bend
Galveston
Gonzales
Harris
Jefferson
Lavaca
Liberty
Matagorda
Orange
Waller
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Wharton
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Caldwell
Comal
Guadalupe
Hays
Lee
Travis
Williamson
Lauderdale Named Superintendent at Mexia State School
Malcolm C. Lauderdale appointed superintendent of Mexia State School per Shervert H. Frazier M D commissioner of the Texas Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation Lauderdale has served since 1950 at Texas hospitals and special schools and was acting superintendent at the School since mid April He leaves the Department's Central Office where he was director of personnel management since 1964 Seven Texas officials will attend the Education Commission of the States meeting in Chicago on June 13 14.
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Malcolm C. Lauderdale
Mexia State School
Shervert H. Frazier
Texas Department of Mental Health and
Visits Reach Grapevine in Pleasant Social Run
Mrs Myrtle Harkins and Mrs Louella Wilson were recent visitors in Grapevine. They were hosted by Mrs Wilson's sister Mr and Mrs O Neil Overman.
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Myrtle Harkins
Louella Wilson
Grapevine
Dallas Pair Visits Parental Home This Weekend
From Dallas Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Anderson, son of Dallas, stayed with his parents Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Anderson over the weekend.
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Bobby Anderson
Dallas
Mrs
S. T. Anderson
Little Family Attends ROTC Commissioning in Lubbock
Mr and Mrs Bud Little Mrs O F Flowers and Mrs Billie Lindley spent the weekend in Lubbock and attended the commissioning ceremony for James W Button Little, a Texas Tech graduate.
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Bud Little
O. F. Flowers
Billie
Lindley
Lubbock
James. W. (Button) Little
Texas Tech
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