Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. [124], No. 72, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1978 Page: 3 of 10
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Texas Press Association
Only a little more than 60
per cent of the state's eight
million eligible voters are
registered, and Texas Secre
tary of State Steve Oaks has
kicked off a massive drive to
raise the figure.
The registration effort
aims at signing up at least
another one million voters.
A bilingual staff will
coordinate the effort from
Oak's office, working with
newspapers, radio and tele
vision stations and civic
groups.
For the first time, voters
can register by mail with a
postage-free post card ap-
plication form submitted to
county tax assessor collec-
tors.
When an application is
processed, a new yellow
registration certificate will
be mailed to the voter.
Current blue cards expire
March 1.
Voters now registered
automatically receive 1978-
79certificates, but many are
being returned due to
changes of address and a
"Cleanup" of voter rolls. In
Dallas, 28 per cent of the
600,000 certificates have
been returned to local
election officials. Oaks said.
Voters who haven't re-
ceived their yellow certifi
cates already, should make
applications now. Oaks ad-
vised. Registration is pos-
sible up to 30 days before an
election.
More than 2,000 grocery
and convenience stores and
about 500 high schools,
colleges and universities will
receive application forms
Tony Jackson & Associates
INSURANCE SERVICES
Austin
472-3917
Bastrop
321-5857
distributed by Oak's office.
Eleven thousand letters
will be M-nt to citizens
organizations requesting
their help.
Benefits Cut
The joint federal state
extended unemployment
benefits program in Texas
has ended due to a drop,in
the national insured unem
ployment rate.
Texas Employment Com-
mission was notified of the
discontinuance in line with
automatic "triggering" for
. mulas.
Extended benefits were
paid to claimants who
exhausted regular state
benefits and were still
unable to find work. They
are financed 50 50 from state
and federal money.
Regular benefits will
continue as usual.
Extended benefits tor
December totalled about
$2.3 million statewide.
A national "trigger" of 4.5
per cent insured unemploy
ment will activate or
discontinue automatically the
payment of extended bene-
fits. The inusred unemploy-
ment rate in Texas never
approached that figure. It
was 1.4 per cent at the time
of the extended benefit cut,
4.7 per cent overall. All
states must begin or end the
payment when the national
rate reaches 4.5 per cent,
rising or falling.
Half-Crop Asked
Farmers in South Texas
this week are being ap-
proached in a big organiza-
tional drive to sign agree-
ments to slash their planted
acreage in half.
American Agriculture
(farm strike 1 leaders said
fanners from 40 other suites
wiU be working in 40
counties of South Texas in an
effort to get the commit
ments.
Strikers met in Dallas to
formulate wording of the "50
per cent no plant" policy
statement. In effect, farmers
are being asked to reduce
their planted acreage by 50
per cent in the 1978 crop
year.
"We have to figure how
far to go in dealing with
those who don't want to
participate," said a spokes-
man for the movement for
higher farm prices. "We
cannot have any violence."
Court Speaks
The Court of Criminal
Appeals upheld constitution
ality of the new changing the
method of capital punish-
ment from the electric chair
to injection by lethal
substance.
An Austin federal district
court held the Texas child
pornography control law un-
constitutional because it
doesn't provide that films
and photographs to be
banned must be "obscene."
A drug manufacturer won
a retrial, through Supreme
Court verdict, of a case in
which a Corpus Christi man
who lost his hearing after
taking one of the company's
infection control drugs was
awarded a $400,00 damage
verdict.
The Supreme Court, up-
held a jury verdict against
the suit by a man who said
he traded a Dallas hotel for
Burnet County lake lots but
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discovered the }>erson he
was dealing with didn't own
the lots.
A life sentence assessed .1
Wichita Falls police officer
accused of hiring a gunman
to kill his estranged wife was
upheld by i he Court of
Criminal Appeals.
The Supreme Court con
eluded a company's term
royalties were not ended by
a 103 day drilling hall in Live
Oak County.
The Third Court of Civil
Appeals agreed an architect
accused of placing his name
and seal on plans for a
hospital in Brownsville
drawn by another architect
should lose his license.
Appointments
Governor Dolph Briscoe
named Corbin J. Robertson
Jr. of Houston chairman of
anadvisorv committee to the
Natural Resources Council.
Briscoe appointed C.W.
"Bud" Duncan Jr. of Killeen
judge of the 27th district
court of Bell, Lampasas and
Mills Counties.
He also appointed T.J.
Massingill of Houston to the
Veterans Land Board and
Charles B. Skiller 111 to the
Texas Commission on Alco
holism.
Short Snorts
J. Chrys Dougherty of
Austin and John Estes of
Dallas have been nominated
for president-elect by the
State Bar of Texas board of
directors. Election for t In-
state Bar presidency will be
by written ballot among
30,000 lawyers in April.
A city which elected to
exempt itself from terms of a
law creating firefighters
relief and retirement fund
for volunteer firemen is not
required to create a retire-
ment system of its own for
the volunteer firefighters,
Attorney General John Hill
said.
U.S. Representative
George Mahan, retiring from
congress, will be honored as
Texan of the Year at the
12th annual Texas Legisla
tive Conference in New
Braunfels March 2 and 3.
A.M. Aikin Jr. of Paris,
dean of the Texas Senate
and author of major Texas
education legislation, an-
nounced he will not seek re-
election because of an
arthritic condition.
Orbry D. Holden of
Georgetown is new acting
executive director of the
Texas Association of School
Boards. He succeeds Cecil E.
Busk.
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Hubert Wilkes, left, president of Swiftex, Inc., Bastrop, accepts his
credentials upun becoming a member of the Dallas Market Center's Furniture
Advisory Board of Governors Presenting the certificate is William E. Cooper,
right, president of the Dallas Market Center Company.
Wilkes becomes board member
The Dallas Market Cen-
ter's Furniture Advisory
Board of Governors installed
two new officers and three
new members during the
recent Winter Homefurnish
ings Market held January 15
through 20.
Smith Young, president of
Dixie Furniture Company,
Lexington, North Carolina,
was installed as chairman of
the board. Young joined
Dixie Furniture in 1946 as
sales manager, anil was
named president of the
company in li r>7. He is past
president of the Southern
Furniture Manufacturers
Association.
Dan Edmonson, vice presi
dent and general manager of
Kroehler Manufacturing
Company, Dallas, was 111
stalled as vice chairman.
Richard Udouj, president
of Riverside Furniture, Fort
Smith, Arkansas, presided
over the meeting, and wus
presented with a past
chairman's plaque by the
incoming chairman, Smith
Young.
In addition, three new
members were named to the
board: J.C. Shaw, chairman
of the board, Shaw In-
dustries, Dalton, Georgia;
Jimmy Smith, president,
Sunset Cosco Lamps, City of
Commerce, California; and
Robert Wilkes, president,
Swiftex, Bastrop.
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Pannell, Leland R. Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. [124], No. 72, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 9, 1978, newspaper, February 9, 1978; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth335031/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.