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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1967
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road crossings is constitutional.
If a county commissioner is a di-
rector and stockholder in a bank
desiring to receive bond issue
funds, the county commissioners
court does not have authority to
designate that ibank as a county
depository.
needy aged. While aid to depend-
ent children and those who are
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• Higher Rates Authorized . . .
Texas Railroad Commission has
authorized higher rates for ship-
ments of household goods by spe-
cialized carriers. No increase was
allowed in packing charges which
had been requested by the van
lines.
Rate changes, based on averages
of 7,600 shipments, came to 17.3
out as a voting requirement. Last
the Gilbraltar Savings Associa-
tion.
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AUSTIN, Texas.—State Supreme
Court has ruled that the Consti-
tutional Amendment requiring an-
nual voter registration in Texas is
valid.
AFL-CIO challenged the amend-
ment. They contended that voters
did not get “fair notice” that the
amendment provided for annual
registration.
State labor officials pledged to
take the issue to the highest fed-
eral court.
State Supreme Court agreed with
ruling of the Third Court of Civil
Appeals that the amendment—ap-
proved by Texans last year—to
abolish the poll tax as a require-
ment for voting and substitute an-
nual sign-up should stand. There
was no opinion. Appellate judges
had reversed the trial court find-
ing.
Austin District Judge Herman
Jones agreed that the full purpose
of the amendment was not ade-
quately described in the proposi-
tion on the ballot. It stated only 431,797 for medical
that the poll tax would be knocked
view of widespread publicity given :
the issue, failed to understand 1
what he was voting on.
Roy Evans, secretary-treasurer :
of the Texas AFL-CIO, said the •
State Supreme Court will be asked •
for a rehearing. If that is rejected, .
a hearing will be requested before ,
the U.S. Supreme Court.
Meanwhile, Texas election ma-
chinery and voter registration for
the big 1968 election year will pro-
ceed under annual sign-up law as
amended this year.
All voters, including those who!
live in cities under 10,000 popula-
tion, must register between Oc-
tober and January.
In other cases, the State Su-1
preme Court:
ions refusing cash judgments to
ions refushing cash judgments to
two parties to the collapse of Bil-
rise, training programs are reduc-
ing ’the amount of aid needed by
blind persons.
Distribution of surplus commod-
ities also is handled by this depart-
ment. In two years, 45,000,000
pounds of flour, 19,000,000 pounds
of corn meal and 17,000,000 pounds
of dry milk were distributed to
needy families from federal sur-
pluses. However, the amount dis-
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said it was unlikely any voter, in
A $1,500,000 appropriation to con- ,
protective devices at rail- per cent higher than present rates.
However, larger shipments are
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actually less and smaller ship-
ments are more.
New rates will take effect on
August 5.
We have recently installed a large, new supply
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• Attorney General Rules . . .
Oil and gas produced on federal
land at Corpus Christi Naval Air
Station are subject to state pro-
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• Coleman Park Grant Approved
The City of Coleman will receive
a $124,810 federal grant to help de-
velop a 139-acre park site at Cole-
man Lake, 14 miles north of the
city.
Grant is under the federal land
and water conservation fund pro-
gram.
City will put up an equal amount
to landscape the area and provide
boat ramps, picnic units, camping
sites, trailer units, playground,
swimming beach, fishing piers,
concession building, bath house,
restroom and necessary utilities.
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• Texas News Briefs . . .
Secretary of State John L. ‘Hill,
who becomes chief election officer
of Texas under a new law effec-
tive August 28, has called a state-
wide conference on recent elec-
tion law changes for October 27.
State Water Pollution Control
Board approved application of
Orange for a permit to replace
Simmons Drive Sewage treatment
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tributed is declining as the govern-
ment stockpiles are used up and
high employment is reducing the
number of needy families.
Payroll and other administrative
costs for giving away $215,000,000
came to $12,708,278.
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• Screwworm Report . . .
Between May 28 and July 1,
some 19 cases of screwworms were
confirmed in Texas.
To prevent spread of the disease,
Screwworm Eradication Program
airplanes recently released 775,-
780,000 sterile screwworm flies in
Texas. Some 106,144,000 were
dropped over Trans-Pecos and the
Valley portions of Texas.
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• Highways . . .
As July began, the State High-
way Department had $618,899,810
worth of highway construction un-
der contract. During June, con-
tractors were paid $35,802,146 for
work completed.
In 1919, only $273,000 was spent
for road construction.
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• Welfare . . .
An audit of the State Depart-
ment of Public Welfare reveals
that $461,000,000 in federal and
state money was used in Texas
during the two years ending last
August on welfare programs.
Rate was $120,000,000 last year,
of which $168,620,302 was in direct
grants to the needy aged, blind,
children and disabled, plus $41,-
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lie Sol Estes’ fortunes. Case orig-
inated in Pecos District Court.
Reversed Amarillo Court of Civ-
il Appeals and sustaining district
court in holding that 49 strikers
against the Shamrock Oil and Gas
Corporation in 1964 could draw un-
employment benefits due to cir-
cumstances of their joblessness.
(Strikers had offered to return to
work.)
Upheld Third Court of Civil Ap-
peals’ ruling that State Savings
and Loan Commissioner was justi-
fied in denying a branch office ap-
plication for downtown Houston of
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alty to the U.S.), Atty. Gen.
Crawford Martin has held.
In other opinions, Martin has
concluded that:
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Entered as second class mail at the Post Office at Groom, Carson
County, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Edited and published by MAX and HELEN WADE
Office Phone No. 3311—Residence Phone No. 3541
Groom, Texas 79039
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 42, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 3, 1967, newspaper, August 3, 1967; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1511952/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Carson County Library.