State Legislature Pursues Half Year Budget Plan
Governor Connally asks delay on tax bill and supports a one year budget for the biennium. House and Senate committees prepare one year appropriations to speed action with a special session next year for a 1969 bill. Lt. Gov. Smith urges caution and seeks early legal clarity.
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John Connally
House
Senate
Connally
Preston Smith
Senate Finance Committee
Smith
Athlete's Foot How To Treat It Ad
Apply quick drying T-4-L to stop itch burn within minutes. In 3 to 5 days infected skin sloughs off and healthy skin returns. If not delighted in one hour, your 48c back at any drug counter. Now at Main Drug Co.
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Main Drug CO
Texas House backs grants aid and education exemptions
Lieutenant governor opposes new tax bills while Connally signals partial financial salvation. A bill by Rep Billy H Williamson would lower grants in aid eligibility for mental health centers to 75,000 population and allow smaller centers if approved. House OKs two education measures by Rep Alonzo Jamison permitting some college educated teachers without all required education courses and adopting advanced history and government exams with A or B grades.
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Connally
Billy H. Williamson
Tyler
Texas
House
Senate
Representatives
Alonzo Jamison
Denton
Measure Sets Truck Safety Rules for Rail Crossings
A bill agreed by the Texas Motor Transportation Association and the Texas Joint Railway Labor Board awaits House action. It requires trucks carrying explosives or inflammables to stop at railroad crossings within city limits and slow to 20 mph or less outside cities.
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Texas Motor Transportation Association
Texas Joint Railway Labor Board
Occupational Safety Bill Clears House in 143 to 0 Vote
A controversial occupational safety bill passed the House 143 to 0 after a compromise. It creates a Division of Occupational Safety in the State Health Department with a three member board to set standards and a safety engineer to inventory all industrial accidents and advise on required rules.
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House
Senate
State Department of Health
Major revisions in criminal procedure advance to House floor
The Criminal Jurisprudence Committee speeds major changes to the code of criminal procedure to address criticism of law enforcement practices. Proposals cover warnings to the accused, judge rights, warrantless arrests of suspects, pre trial hearing notices, sentencing procedures, and requiring witnesses to identify themselves when asked by police. The committee rejected expanding allowance for oral confessions. Attorney General Crawford C. Martin questions bonds tied to Trinity River Authority taxes.
Notice Briefs On Public Authority Powers And Contracts
The document outlines assorted official remarks including a sheriff’s authority to release a prisoner after fines and costs, a State Building Commission contract flexibility for a Cordova Crossing liquor tax station, Chamizal transfer timing, Water Rights Commission duties on canceling unused permits, and counties purchasing insurance from licensed firms under restricted conditions.
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Martin
State Building Commission
Cordova Crossing
el Paso
U.S
Chamizal
Texas Water Rights Commission
Texas Supreme Court ruling on lottery winnings and farm cleanup cases
The Texas Supreme Court in a divided decision upheld a Edinburg woman's $17,000 lottery prize won with a neighbor. The court also rejected an appeal by a Bryan man challenging city limits cleanup orders for his egg and chicken farm. The Third Court of Civil Appeals upheld Gerst rulings denying savings firm offices in La Grange. The report notes 46 banks and eight savings and loan associations in nearby counties. Tourism reached a new $1 billion milestone with 19,200,000 visitors spending $1.08 billion in 1966, with autos accounting for most arrivals and an average stay of 5.8 days.
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Texas Supreme Court
Edinburg
Bryan
Third Court of Civil Appeals
James O. Gerst
Savings and Loan
la Grange
Fayette County
Texas
State Highway Department
Tyler State Park to Get $505000 Development Plan
Will Odom says a $504,891 development and rehabilitation project for Tyler State Park will begin after a state Supreme Court ruling cleared the way. The Legislature approved $278,950 with a federal grant of $225,941 from the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. Planned work includes shelters campsites restrooms trailer sites picnic units fishing docks nature trails and other facilities near Interstate 20. A bill by Rep. A. C. Atwood authorizing Commissioner John C. White to test out-of-state citrus under Texas maturity standards passed both houses.
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Tyler State Park
Will Odom
Parks and Wildlife Commission
Supreme Court
Tyler
Smith County
Odom
Federal Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Scenic
Interstate 20
A. C. Atwood
Edinburg
Commissioner of Agriculture
John C. White
Texas
Davidson Puckett Engagement Set for June 30
Mr and Mrs John Prentiss Davidson Sr announce the engagement and approaching marriage of their daughter Robbie Sue to Richard Lee Puckett son of Mr and Mrs Barney C Puckett The couple will exchange vows June 30 at First Baptist Church They are both students at Mc Murry College Abilene and graduates of Winters High School class of 66
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Robbie Sue Davidson
Richard Lee Puckett
John Prentiss Davidson, Sr
Robbie Sue
Barney C. Puckett
First Baptist Church
McMurry College
Abilene
Winters High School
Texas Legislature Hikes Unemployment Benefits and Wages
The House passed a bill raising maximum unemployment compensation from 37 to 45 dollars a week and increasing weekly wages to qualify for top benefits from 69 to 85 dollars. Total registered voters in 1967 reach 2,982,862 per Secretary of State figures. U S Office of Education approves 18 Texas projects under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Governor Connally calls a special election for May 25 to fill the Jim Hairgrove unexpired term in Brazoria and Fort Bend Counties.
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John Hill
U. S. Office of Education
Connally
Jim Hairgrove
Brazoria
Fort Bend
Harrison Family Visits Highlight Major Harrison Return
Major G. Harrison of Abilene, son of Mrs Orbie Harrison of Winters, and his family visited with Mrs. Orbie Harrison. He has just returned from eight months in Vietnam and will next be assigned to the Pentagon. The family plans to leave June 1 for Washington DC.
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Marshall G. Harrison
Abilene
Orbie Harrison
Winters
Richard T. Harrison
Killeen
Harrison
Vietnam
Pentagon
Washington, D. C
Runnels County Food Service Association Holds Meeting
The Regular session of the Runnels County Food Service Association met Saturday in Ballinger High School cafeteria. Margie Routh presided, officers for 1967-68 were installed by Ferris Akins, with Gladys Benson named president and Frances Spicker as president-elect. Floy Hodge of Winters showed a Europe tour film.
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County Food Service Association
Ballinger
Margie Routh of _ Ballinger
Billie Whitlow
Winters
Dallas
Ferris Akins
Gladys Benson
Frances Spicker
Olga Meyers
Bertha Smith
Floy Hodge
Europe
Bobby Kennedy Denies 1960s Bugging Don’t Extend to LBJ
The record notes Bobby Kennedy, then attorney general, denying approval of past bugging while leaving open the claim that he might be currently bugging Lyndon B. Johnson. This frames a political controversy around surveillance and executive conduct.
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Bobby Kennedy
LBJ
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Tyler Park
Sphinx
Lone Star
Lone Star Gas
Harrison Home
Eugene C. Swenson
Stamford
Swensons
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