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Newspaper
Winters Enterprise
Location
Winters, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1968
Page
7
The Texas Constitutional Revision Commission has finished its winter and spring work sessions and rewritten the Texas charter of government. The panel completed its series of meetings and prepared proposed revisions for state governance.
The article outlines the stalled path of Texas constitutional revision in 1967. It notes the split among leaders, with House action but Senate inaction and a lame duck governor looming over a report due next January. Debates focus on judicial selection, governor power, and potential four year terms, with calls for riot control measures amid unrest.
The attorney general ruled that four junior colleges may receive 32369 state funds based on full time student equivalents. Bee County Junior College receives 3780, Central Texas College at Killeen 21658, Galveston Community College 3733, and College of the Mainland at Texas City 3196. The AG also said the comptroller could exempt certain equipment from the annual inventory for Vocational Rehabilitation division. It further held a justice of the peace in a driver license suspension case cannot issue orders when the licensee does not appear and service was attempted by certified mail without a post office receipt.
Governor Connally appears set to command the State Democratic Convention in Dallas June 11 with an overwhelming majority. Chairman Will Davis notes 215 of 254 county conventions passed resolutions backing Connally and 22 counties will send uninstructed delegates. The focus is a $2.5 billion appropriation for 1969 and a $125 million tax plan, including raising the state sales tax to three percent with rebates to cities.
Public hearings will be held June 15 to July 10 on a major Higher Education Coordinating Board proposal to create six new state colleges to meet expanding city enrollments. The program would cost 201,000,000 over 1973 to 1977 as staff recommends.
The coordinating board is expected to pass on recommendations at a July or August meeting. New colleges were proposed to open in 1973 in San Antonio, Midland Odessa, and Dallas Fort Worth with junior to master's work. Houston would gain a second UH campus, and Corpus Christi would get an upper level facility by 1974. By 1977 a third UH campus is seen as needed, with staff proposing contracting with private institutions as an alternative.
The State Supreme Court upholds rulings that mass applications for voter registration are illegal. The High Court effectively declares David Fuentes the winner of a 1966 Presidio County commissioner race, and affirms removing nine votes from write in Frances E. Howard after a notary aided absentee voters by writing his name for them.
Governor John Connally announced Thomas A Curtis as district attorney for Amarillo and Earl Connor as judge of the 91st District Court in Eastland. Lt. Gov Preston Smith named Ike Harris to the Senate finance committee. Rep J A Garcia Jr of Raymondville sworn in to replace Bill Rapp. Connally asked Johnson to declare Hill County a major disaster area after 18 inch rains May 7 to 10. Planning grants of 698 to South Texas Council of Governments and 500 to Victoria and Cuero Councils of Governments.
State Highway Department began planning an additional bridge on U S Highway 290 crossing the Brazos River in Washington and Waller counties. Texas Gulf shrimping enters a closed season through July 15 to allow migratory shrimp to reach legal size, per the Parks and Wildlife Commission.
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