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Plan for Peace in Korea
Auto Workers Union Turns
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Sea water in the tropics is less
salt than that in cold regions.
The angler fish goes fishing for
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Genuine Americans Heeded in U.S.
Information Agency, Says Dr. Johnson
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Friday Hottest
Day of Year Here
Friday was the hottest day of
the year in Gainesville. The mer-
cury reached a high of 94 de-
grees in midafternoon, two de-
grees higher than Thursday’s 92,
which was the previous high for
the year.
Last night’s low was 75 de-
grees, and at noon today, the
mercury registered 84 degrees,
one below the figure for the
same hour Friday.
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One MIG Is
Destroyed
In Air War
SEOUL, May 23 (/P) — U. S.
Sabre jets destroyed one Com-
munist MIG and damaged anoth-
er today as Allied and Red pilots
tangled high over North Korea
for the first time since Monday.
Tough South Korean infantry-
men killed or wounded more
than 300 Chinese Reds in small-
scale but savage hand-to-hand
fighting along the rain-soaked
battlefront.
Scores of Allied fighters and
bombers streaked over North
Korea as skies cleared after two
days of wind and rain.
Today’s MIG kill was credited
to Maj. Vermont Garrison of Mt.
Victory, Ky., who scored with
of millions of people, the charge
will, to say the least, influence
their thinking and their actions.”
Second, we must inform the
world by the examples - of what
we do and what we have done
that we are not an aggressive
or an imperialistic nation . . .
Johnson’s agency is faced with
a question of determining which
authors and composers meet the
non-Communist test for use of
their works in U. S. overseas in-
formation activities.
R. W. Scott McLeod, the State
department’s chief of security,
said yesterday he does not want
the job of checking on them.
The International Information
administration IIA, which admin-
isters the programs, has no se-
curity division of its own. It is
under orders not to use any Com-
munist material on the Voice of
America, in overseas libraries or
other outlets.
Earlier this week, officials of
the State department, of which
the information agency is a part,
said the flow. of books to libra-
ries abroad had slowed down to
a trickle while they tried to work
out a checking system. They said
IF ANYONE WAS TO ask us
what state produces the most
cowboy boots, we would immedi-
ately have replied “Texas”, hav-
ing in mind the several large
cowboy boot factories in North
Texas.
But we learn that a single boot
company in Clarksville, Tenn.—
Acme — makes almost as many
cowboy boots as all the 42 fac-
tories in Texas combined.
This firm goes after children’s
business in the low-priced field,
and it does not put out the
handsome custom made boots in-
dividually designed as do some
of the large Texas plants.
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Hit and Run Case
Probed by Police
Police today were continuing
investigation of a' hit and run
traffic incident which resulted in
$65 damage to an automobile
owned by Mrs. R. Stolhand of
626 Moran street.
The Stolhand car was struck by
another vehicle while parked at
the curb in front of the residence.
Mrs. Stolhand heard the noice of
the impact and a neighbor ob-
tained a license number of the
other car, which backed away and
drove off after the collision.
The license number reported
was issued in Montague county,
but a check revealed that the car
carrying the number did not fit
the description of the hit and run
vehicle.
The mishap occurred about
4:30 p. m. Thursday.
WASHINGTON, May 23 (AP)—
Dr. Robert L. Johnson, chief of
the International Information. ad-
ministration, said today his agen-
cy “must bring in the most bril-
liant men and women available”
to accomplish its task abroad.
He declared that every employe
of the agency “must be what I
would call a genuine American.”
Johnson, who has advocated
taking the administration out of
the State Department and mak-
ing it independent, made his
statements in a speech prepared
for the All-American Conference
to Combat Communism.
The purposes of the informa-
tion program, built around the
Voice of America, were defined
by Johnson as covering two ma-
jor undertakings:
“First, we must use all of our
power to remove the misconcep-
tions about the United States—
and to answer the lies the Com-
munists tell about us. For ex-
ample, the Soviets charge that
we are the aggressor in Korea.
However amazing that charge is
to us, unless it is answered with
the truth, unless we bring the
facts in the case to the attention
were shot
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Filibuster Does Not Keep
State Senate From Doing
Work on Numerous Bills
DETROIT, May 23 (AP) — The
CIO United Auto workers turned
the heat on the remainder of the
auto industry’s big three today to
gain the same wage concessions
it got from General Motors Corp,
yesterday.
Walter P. Reuther, president of
the CIO and the UAW, already
had said Chrysler and Ford
would be asked to alter their
five-year wage contracts if Gen-
eral Motors did. GM historically
has been the contract pattern-
setter.
After GM agreed to alter its
contract—which it legally could
have refused to do until mid-
1955—Reuther remarked: “I hope
other companies will catch on to
the idea real quick.”
The concessions granted by
GM raised the average wage of
GM’s 350,000 employes across the
country to $2.05 hourly.
About 700,000 other UAW mem-
bers are employed by other auto
makers and major suppliers.
Shortly after the GM-UAW
agreement was announced, James
passed, is expected to revolution-
ize the school as it includes the
gymnasium, auditorium and
equipment.
According to Mrs. Maxine Bur-
lingham, superintendent of the
school, Mr. Stark and Miss Duff
have aided the school work im-
measurably. Miss Duff is chair-
man and Mr. Stark sub-chairman
of the committee of special
schools and hospitals and visited
the school with their committee
on February 27.
Senator Joe Russell of Royce
City plans to be present during
the dedication. Also R. H. Weav-
er, Paris; W. W. Perry, Stephen-
ville; and M. S. Pipkin of
Brownsville, members of the
committee of special schools and
hospitals, expect to attend.
Harold J. Mathews of Austin,
who is director of institutions,
arrived Saturday morning for
the two day celebration. Groups
of visitors from Ft. Worth and
Dallas are also expected, accord-
ing to Mrs. Burlingham.
Conducted tours are from
9:15 to 11:30 a. m. and 1:30 to
5 p. m. each day. Special fea-
tures along with the dedication
of the hospital at 1:30 p. m. Sun-
day, include the capping of voca-
tional nurses, 2:30 p. m. Sunday;
graduation of vocational units,'4
o’clock; and the glee club and
drum and bugle groups will per-
form twice daily.
The open house is sponsored
by the Chamber of Commerce.
—a date selected to mark the be-" down in the
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eluded these:
Statewide judicial redistricting,
which sets up 11 more district
courts than are now operating,
effective Jan. 1, 1955, except for
two Dallas courts that would be
delayed until 1957. The bill goes
back to' the house for senate
amendments.
Eight bills dealing with the
state’s surface water administra-
tion problems. Three went to the
governor, five were amended re-
turned to the house.
Control Board Bill
Reorganization of the State
Board of Control, which does
state buying and takes care of
the state’s property. Now on a
full-time basis, the three-man
board would have part-time du-
ties, and a full-time director
would be appointed. No present
board member would be eligible
for the job.
Rearrangement of the state’s
district court set-up touched off
argument between two South
Texas senators.
They differed on what would
be the best alignment of coun-
ties in the area where George
Parr of Duval county has been
described as maintaining a politi-
cal dictatorship.
Sen. William Shireman of Cor-
pus Christi wanted to leave the
79th district of Starr, Duval, Jim
Wells and Brooks counties un-
touched. He said people in that
district are beginning to develop
the “intestinal fortitude to go
out and vote against the dictat-
ing gang of George Parr.”
By ROBERT EUNSON
TOKYO, May 23 (A) — Lt. Gen.
William K., Harrison is ready to
return to the Panmunjom truce
table with what high U. N. com-
mand sources today called a
showdown Korean armistice plan.
The sources said the chief al-
lied negotiator will issue a “last
chance” ultimatum to the Reds
when the talks resume Monday
after an eight-day break.
Harrison is expected to leave
Tokyo soon with a revised U. N.
plan to settle the bitter contro-
versy over exchanging prisoners
of war.
In Washington, some members
of congress who talked with Act-
ing Secretary of State Walter
Bedell Smith about the peace
parleys said they expected no
major change in U. S. policies.
Sen. Sparkman (D-Ala), who
attended the Washington session,
said negotiators were “very near”
a truce—if the Reds really want
one.
Sparkman, a member of the
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By BO BYERS
. AUSTIN, May 23 (P) — A day-
long filibuster couldn’t stop the
senate from getting a lot of
work done yesterday.
The upper chamber cast an
anxious eye at the fast-approach-
ing end of the session—now just
four days away — and cut off
Sen. Wayne Wagonseller’s fili-
buster at the seven-hour, 48-min-
ute mark.
The senator was halted by a
seldom-invoked rule that he was
unduly wasting the senate’s
time.
Wagonseller didn’t say why he
spent all day discussing his own
resolution to oppose recognition
of Red China in the United Na-
tions. Other senators said he was
trying to stall a bill denying
workmen’s compensation to
Texas workers idled because of
a strike against the same com-
pany in another state.
Senate Rolls On
An effort to bring up that bill
for consideration last night
failed.
The clock said 5:33 p. m. when
Wagonseller lost the floor, but
the senate was just warming up.
It tore into a heavy docket
and when the smoke cleared at
12:10 a. m. today, 80 bills had
been approved, including 10 high
on Gov. Shivers’ priority list.
The senate then joined the house
in quitting until Monday, when
session-ending rules will put
strict limits on what bills can be
considered.
Shivers-endorsed measures that
won senate endorsement in-
THE WORD “ERA” according
I to the dictionary is a period
of time determined by a signifi-
cant date, but in Cooke county,
“Era,” with a capital E, is a
community in the southwest part
of the county with a population
of 175.
At Era, this week, the board of
• school trustees got together and
elected IRVIN WILSON of Ma-
bank superintendent of the school
to succeed C. K. McCLENDON
who is going to Leonard to be
school superintendent July 1.
This fact was set forth in The
Register Friday with a picture of
Mr. Wilson.
The same information was sent
to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram
by that newspaper’s correspond-
ent in Gainesville, and the news-
story appeared in this morning
edition of the Fort Worth paper.
But when the Star-Telegram
received the item by telegraph
last night, a rewrite man took
over and revised the story. In
' so doing, he elminated two ref-
ences to “Era” appearing in the
story.
And so, when the news item
appeared in the Star-Telegram
this morning, the article said Mr.
Wilson had been elected super-
intendent of Gainesville schools.
About 7 o’clock this morning,
the Star-Telegram had received
a long distance call from Gaines-
ville apprising the newspaper of
the error and the Star-Telegram
called its local correspondent to
get the matter straightened out.
The latter ascertained that the
news item as it went out on the
telegraph wire from here was
, correct, and it was on the re-
write desk of the Fort Worth
newspaper that the error was
made.
That little three-letter word
“Era” was all-important to that
news item, especially when it
was inadvertently left out.
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Retail Merchants
Board Reaffirms
Stand for Holiday
The board of directors of the
Retail Merchants association by
a vote of 6 to 1, reaffirmed its
stand calling for observance of a
full holiday next Saturday, May
30, Memorial day, at a meeting
held in the Chamber of Com-
merce office, Saturday morning.
J. B. Saylors, manager of the
RMA, called the meeting of the
board after the desire of some
merchants to keep their stores
open on Memorial day this year
because it falls on Saturday,'had
been expressed.
Members of the board voting
on the proposal are F. E. Schmitz,
president; Cliff McMahon, Henry
Schad, Harry O. Kinne, Warren
Thomas, Fred Greenwood and
Leo M. Kuehn, Jr.
Mr. Saylors said the banks,
city and county offices and other
places of business not associated
with the Retail Merchants asso-
ciation had also agreed to a full
holiday and would remain closed
all day next Saturday.
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Skies Clear Over
Storm-Stricken
Mid-West Areas
By The Associated Press
Skies cleared over storm-
■ stricken areas of the Midwest
today as thunderstorm activity
headed into the northeastern sec-
tion of the country.
Tornadoes and strong winds
which whipped over midconti-
nent areas the last few days
caused widespread p roperty
damage. Heaviest damage was
from twisters that struck the
Michigan-Canadian border area
of Port Huron, Mich., and Sar-
nia, Ont. Five persons were
killed.
Thunderstorms hit areas from
Dayton, O., eastward to New
York City during the night but
abated early today as the storm
center moved into New England.
Nearly two inches of rain fell in
some areas. Winds were up to
35 miles per hour, but diminished
as the storm dissipated.
Clear and mild weather was
reported over the southern half
of the country. There was a pos-
sibility of thunderstorms in sec-
tions of the Lower Mississippi
Valley during the day.
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One of 7 Convicts
Escaping Prison
Back Behind Bars
MARQUETTE, Mich., May 23
(A)—One of seven desperadoes
who fled Michigan’s maximum-
security prison here, was back
behind bars today, less than 24
hours after he broke out.
What is more, he was captured
by a civilian who merely thrust
his hands into his pockets as if
he had a gun. He didn’t.
Back was Lloyd Burgdurf, 61, a
life-termer. Jack Messenger, 48,
a school bus driver, spotted him
near Marquette’s city dump last
night.
Messenger stopped his car. His
springer spaniel dog jumped out
barking. Messenger thrust his
hands in his pockets as if reach-
ing for a gun. Burgdurf came
forward, hands raised.
Authorities, however, did not
anticipate the other six would
cow as quickly or easily.
Among them was Lloyd Rus-
sell, 31, serving 912 to 10 years
for assault less than the crime of
murder. One of two brothers
who escaped from the Ohio
prison farm at London, Russell
was convicted of attacking a
Michigan state trooper.
Both killers and robbers also
were included among those flee-
ing, and Warden Emery Jacques
warned “all are dangerous and
armed.”
The warden gave this version
of the escape, one of the few
from this “rock”:
The seven, assigned to work as
plumbers on radiators in cell-
block C, overpowered at knife
point two guards, Sgt. Joe Bu-
tala and John Osterburg, and
locked them in cells. Then they
forced several inmates they
thought may interfere into cells
and locked them.
An acetelyne torch cut bars
leading to the front lawn of the
picturesque penitentiary, from
which the seven scampered as
fast as their feet would carry
them.
two bursts of gunfire in a brief
aerial duel 40,000 feet over Suiho
dam just south of the Manchu-
rian border, the Air force said.
Lt. Col. George I. Ruddell of
Eugene, Ore., damaged a MIG in
another scrap, the Air force
said.
In eastern Korea South Korean
infantrymen charged five times
i against dug-in Chinese who late
Friday seized one end of Outpost
Victory. But at nightfall, after
24 hours of bitter close quarter
fighting, the 150 to 200 Chinese
still held the western end of the
ridge, the Eighth army said.
The Reds grabbed part of the
longated outpost two days ago,
but were thrown off the same
day.
South Koreans used bayonets
and knives to hurl back Chinese
who hit five other outposts along
the 155-mile front, the Army
said.
Infantrymen of the Eighth
ROK division also beat back 300
to 350 Chinese who attacked an
outpost on Capitol hill and an-
other 150 to 200 Reds who hit a
U. N. position in the same west-
ern front sector.
In the air, Allied fighter-bomb-
ers hit Communist troops in the
Christmas hill area and else-
where along the front.
American Sabre jets scoured
MIG alley and damaged one Red
jet in the first dogfight reported
in several days.
The Fifth Air force, mean-
while, toted up 28 MIG kills, two
probables and nine damaged by
Sabres for the week ended Fri-
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a world force.
McLeod discussed aspects of
his work yesterday in separate
interviews with the Washington
Evening Star and Washington
News.
He said he had asked the in-
formation agency not to submit
to his division the names of any
more writers for checking — that
it was the agency’s problem.
He also said he had ordered
his aides to be completely ruth-
less in passing on the security
qualifications of new applicants
for State department jobs.
In the case of persons already
employed, he said, different
standards might apply—a ques-
tionable incident in the past
might be outweighed by good
performance since then.
But he made one exception—a
homosexual act, however long
past, would make an employe
liable to blackmail.
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LAKE CHARLES, La., May 23
(A5)—Engineers will decide today
whether to dynamite a historic
highway to relieve the multi-
million dollar flood in this South-
west Louisiana port city and in
nearby Orange, Texas.
, The two cities are connected
by highway 90 built atop a 35-
mile land fill which is acting as
a dam against pent up flood wa-
ters.
The flooding Calcasieu river
has inundated a third of Lake
Charles and the flooding Sabine
river is threatening Orange.
Gov. Robert Kennon flew over
the stricken area yesterday and
said the decision to dynamite
would be left up to engineers who
are making a survey today.
The flood-crippled area, with
hundreds of homes in backwater
up to window level, counted
damage at 10 million dollars.
Week-long floods throughout
Louisiana caused a loss estimated
at more than 100 million dollars
and at least eight drownings. No
casualties were reported here but
residents were advised to get ty-
phoid shots.
While the creeping paralysis of
backwaters ripped through one-
third of this Southwest Louisi-
ana city, the waters spilling into
l o w-lying neighborhoods a p-
peared to be leveling off, but not
falling.
A decision was expected on
whether to relieve conditions by
dynamiting holes in the east-
west highway 90. The road,
built on an embankment in
swampland, dams the southbound
flood waters.
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The score was made more im-
pressive by the fact that weather
knocked out two days of air op-
erations and the MIGs refused
to come out to fight on two
other days.
One Sabre was lost in air com-
bat during the week, Fifth Air
force said.
Two other Sabres were re-
ported lost to “other causes,”
presumably mechanical trouble.
Six Allied warplanes were re-
ported lost to Communist ground
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TORNADO DAMAGE FROM THE AIR—This airview takes in the business area of Sarnia, Ontario, hardest hit by a tornado
that passed through the city causing terrific damage. Streets can be seen cleared of debris which was started after tornado
hit in order for ambulances to get the injured to hospitals. (AP Wirephoto)
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Open House Gets
Underway Today
At State School
During the first hour of the
open house at Gainesville State
school for Girls this morning,
153 persons were registered.
The climax of the two day
open house will be the dedica-
tion of the new hospital by Miss
Virginia Duff, state representa-
tive from Ferris, who will be in-
troduced by Representative Rich-
ard Stark of Gainesville.
Mr. Stark was co-sponsor of
the bill with Miss Duff for a
new $150,000 gymnasium for the
school which has passed the
house. The bill, No. 863, if
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Senate Foreign Relations Far
Eastern subcommittee, said he
felt that if the projected allied
offer is rejected, the U. N. will
break off negotiations immediate-
iy-
Harrison has been in Tokyo a
week, holding almost daily con-
ferences with Gen. Mark W.
Clark and Ambassador Robert
Murphy, political adviser to the
Far East commander.
“We do not intend to let these
talks merely drag on,” a high
source at Clark’s headquarters
said.
The U. N. has suggested that
its 34,000 North Korean prisoners
who have renounced Communism
should be released in South Ko-
rea after an armistice.
The Communists want to turn
the North Koreans, and 14,500 re-
luctant Chinese, over to a repa-
triation commission of neutral na-
tions for disposal.
The U. N. agreed to turn the
Chinese over to a commission,
but not the North Koreans.
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city and pushing out into wild
marshlands to the south.
A one-mile wide belt of the city
and business district bordering
the river were safe on high
ground.
After Cook predicted the Sa-
bine crest at Orange would be
only eight and one-half to nine
feet, flood fighters there said
they were “very hopeful that the
battle against the river will be
won.” Meanwhile, the river had
already gone into some 200
homes.
In Lake Charles, for two days
stiff south winds had pushed
back at the flood heading down-
toward the Gulf of Mexico and
while at crest, the water
sprawled out, inching up and up
in low residential areas on the
east side.
Sheriff H. A. Reid, Jr., said
15,000 persons were driven from
their homes. He estimated the
damage at 10 million dollars.
Lake Charles and its outlying
districts total 70,000 population.
The Red Cross took care of
more than 1,000 refugees in
churches, fraternal homes and
the high school. Most evacuees
went to homes of relatives or
friends.
The big Lake Charles Air force
base, two miles east of the city,
was nearly abandoned. B-29
bombers zoomed out yesterday as
water crawled toward the last
runway.
The water desolation was al-
most undetected in the Lake
Charles shopping district while in
outer fringes water was waist
in some stores.
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B. Carey, president of the CIO
Electrical Workers, announced
GM had given 40,000 members of
his union similar concessions.
Under the contract, General
Motors agreed:
1. To make permanent 19 of
the 24 cents hourly that its hour-
ly-rated employes have gained
through increases because of the
cost-of-living escalator clause in
their contract.
2. To raise from four to five
cents annually the hourly in-
crease granted under the con-
tract’s “annual improvement fac-
tor.” This is designed to com-
pensate for cheaper technological
ways of doing things—labor-sav-
ing devices.
3. To raise 40,000 skilled em-
ployes a flat 10 cents hourly June
1 “in recognition of the inequities
that have developed because of
the Korean conflict, as between
skilled trades workers employed
by the corporation and those- em-
ployed in jobbing shops.”
4. To accept a new cost-of-liv-
ing formula by which wages are
hitched to'the government’s new
index of the cost of living.
It was the government’s de-
cision to abandon the old cost-of-
living index that brought about
reopening of the contract. They
specifically were tied to the old
index of the Bureau of Labor
statistics until 1955.
The BLS announced months
prior that it would switch to the
new index, dropping the old, this
year. President Eisenhower or-
dered the old continued until
June.
The new contract will make
both the new and old indexes in-
operative until the cost-of-living
is announced in September for
the quarter ending July 15.
While it got major concessions,
the UAW did not gain its full de-
mands, including a hike in pen-
sions.
However, Texas Civil Defense
Coordinator William Lawrence
said the plan to dynamite the
highway in Texas had been aban-
doned.
The situation appeared a little
easier at Orange, a Texas indus-
trial city of 30,000 some 35 miles
southwest of here on highway 90.
Orange had been threatened by
the Sabine river.
Weatherman Paul Cook revised
his earlier predictions and said
the Sabine would crest at between
8%2 and nine feet. He had fore-
seen a crest of 9% feet for this
morning.
“That makes us very hopeful
that the battle against the river
will be won,” central headquar-
ters of the flood fighters said.
The bedraggled, muddy army
of 10,000 that has been fighting
for thiee days and nights to keep
the flood waters out of their
homes, jobs and businesses did
not let up their efforts, however.
They continued to build up the
sandbag dikes while beginning to
hope that what was feared would
be Orange’s worst flood would
not be so bad.
Weatherman Cook said “Lake
Charles will just have to sit here
four or five more days with this
flood at or near its peak.”
He said an immense amount of
southward flowing water was
still piled up in miles of swamp-
lands north of the city.
The waters crested at 9.76 feet
—5.76 feet above flood stage—at
the Lake Charles docks here.
They were moving slowly almost
within river banks through the
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Sen. Abraham Kazen, Jr., of
Laredo ripped into Shireman’s
suggestion, reminding the senate
that the “explosive situation” de-
scribed by Shireman exists with-
in Kazen’s senatorial bailiwick,
not Shireman’s,
“It is I who has to go home
and face those people,” Kazen
said, asserting that a majority
of his constituents favored the
redistricting plan as drawn by
the senate.
The senate went along with
Kazen on leaving only Jim Wells
and Brooks counties in the 79th,
placing Jim Hogg, Webb and
Duval in the 49th, and Webb,
Zapata and Starr in the 111th.
This would mean two courts for
Webb.
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