White Deer News (White Deer, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 9, 1969 Page: 6 of 8
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AUSTIN, Texas — Another legis-
lative session is just around the cor-
ner.
Lawmakers are due back in town
Tuesday (January 14) for their 61st
biennial meeting, and most obser-
vers predict it will be a lively ses-
sion.
Senators and representatives soon
Will be bickering mightly over the
following and1 probably hundreds of
other less spectacular matters:
• Spending and1 taxation. Nearly
everybody is convinced1 there will
be a big tax bill1. But one of those
who isn’t is none other than Gov.-
elect Preston Smith. He is hopeful
tfyat he won’t have to be concerned
With a tax program this year. How-
ever, there tare demands for appro-
priations increases and school teac-
hers want a $200 million pay raise.
• Recomendations of the Gover-
nor’s Committee on Public School
Education, particularly those of dis-
trict consolidation and tax burden
SERVICE-TOONS
R. M. HUBBARD
“Ordinarily I wouldn’t ask you to
do ANYTHING I wouldn’t do . . «
but this is DANGEROUS!”
Ask us for any car service: It’s not
dangerous with skilled men on the
job. And our low prices will elimin-
ate the danger of a “blowout” to
your pocketbook!
R. M. Hubbard
OIL
COMPANY
"Best Service In White Deer"
— Phone: 883-5251 —
We Give S & H Green Stamps
equalization.
• Liquor-by-the-drink legislation.
What again? This time,, apparently,
proponents will try the constitution-
J ial amendment (let-everybody-vote-
on-it) route.
• Minimum wage legislation.
• Constitutional revision.
• Increasing workmen’s compen-
sation from $35 to $49 a week max-
imum iand broadening coverage to
public employees.
• Air and water pollution control
measures.
• Implementing the statewide
water plan.
• Raising the public welfare
spending ceiling.
Incoming governor has indicated
hje will attach personal priority tags
to these major program areas; ed-
ucation (with emphasis on vocation-
al and technical training), law en-
forcement, finance, pollution mea-
ures and water matters.
NEW BUDGET PLAN DRAWN —
Legislative Budget Board has re-
commended1 $1.1 billion in general
revenue spending for 1970-71 — a-
bout $77 million more than the bare
hones minimum level estimated1 by
Gov. John Oonnally.
LBB calculated its own modest
version of appropriations needs
would leave $60.7 million in unear-
marked general revenue, but that
takes into account no new major
programs such as implementation
of the governor’s public school stu-
dy or teacher pay boosts.
Board decided to order a stop to
salary supplements for major col-
lege officials from private funds and
to recommend the state pay what-
ever is needed1 to get top men. This
would cost about $308,500 a year.
Under LBB proposals the gover-
nor would get a pay raise, too, from
$40,000 to $55,000 a year. That would
keep him ahead of lesser appointed1
officials, some of whom actually
have been paid more than the cheif
executive considering their incomes
from private sources.
Budget proposal also includes $8.2
million in state office building (to
cut down on $1.5 million annual
rentals paid1 by the state to house
agencies in Austin) and an $850,000
state records storage center.
APPOINTMENTS —
Hawthorne Phillips, formerly of
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WHITE DEER NEWS
CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS
Thursday, January 9, 1969
tive assistant attorney general. He
succeeds A. J. Carubbi, Jr. wbp
joined a Houston law firm.
Atty. Gen. Crawford C. Martin al-
so named Pat Cain of Austin to ser-
ve as his administrative assistant,
replacing W. E. Wells who will take
a Houston finance job.
Martin said Odessa District Judge
George Kelton will join his staff as
co-chairman of the opinions division.
TECHNICAL TRAINING BOOSTED
House Education Oomimitte has
urged at least $30 million outlay
during the next biennium for voca-
tional-technical education in Texas.
HEC,, which conducted study and
10 hearings, found that 16 vocational
Ischools should be provided in 10
years to furnish 180 such facilities.
It said all private technical and bus-
iness schools ought to be regulated
by the Texas Education Agency and
that James Connatly Technical Ins-
titute at Waco should be operated
ias a separate entity for training
scarce vo-tech instructors and coun-
selors.
INAUGURATION —
During the pre-session lull, secre-
taries and other workers in the Leg-
islature are busy addresing invita-
tions from Governor-elect Smith and
(Lt. Gev.-elect Ben Barnes to the
January 21 inauguration festivites.
Smith’s inauguration promises to
toe the most public of any such event
since Austin became the capital of
Texas. He wants everybody to come
help him celebrate his assuming the
chief executive’s office.
Five of the six inaugural balls
scheduled will be free. The formal
ball in Austin’s Municipal Auditor-
ium, featuring Henry King and His
Orchestra, will be the only one for
which admission will be charged.
But the “free” 'balls sound like
more fun. Television Star Jimmy
'Dean, a native of Plainview, Texas,
will entertain at each, of them. And
other famous Texans—Glenn Camp-
bell, Buck Owen, Ray Price, Charlie
'Pride and the Casino Brass — will
play for dancing.
COURTS SPEAK —
Texas Supree 'Court threw out or-
ders of Shelby Counity court which
attempted to invalidate Department
of Public Safety drivers’ license
suspensions of 83 who did not live
in the county.
High court exonerated1 two Victor-
ia doctors sued by a woman who
broke her hip in a fall from a hos-
pital bed' after electric shock treat-
ments.
Thirty-two death penalty cases
were pending as of the end of the
last fiscal year says the Board of
Pardons and Paroles in its annual
Depart.
GUARD UNITS PRAISED —
Texas’ Army National Guard is
at the “highest state of efficiency
j and readines ever achieved,” Four-
\th Army spokesmen commented.
Annual general inspections of 121
units reflected that more guard un-
its were rated “superior” than year,
despite massive reorganization. 21
units received distinction in Fourth
Army judging.
SHORT SNORTS — „
All statewide elective officials (ex-
cept the governor and lieutenant
governor) who serve two-year terms
began new terms on January 1.
More got out than in state prisons
last year. A total of 5,485 inmates
were released' (1,921 through parole)
while 4,736 were admitted.
Forty-one applications for permits
to sell $29 million in securities in
Texas were filed during the last two
weeks with the State Securities
Board.
Application has been filed for
West End State Bank, Westgate Ci-
ty, Beaumont, with the State Bank-
ing Board. Board also heard bitter
political charges in hearing on ap-
plication fo rane w state bank at
Hurst.
The Otho Hendricks and Mr. and
Mrs. Philip Rapstine and family
went to San Angelo during Christ-
mas and said every one was o. k.
Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kotara sends re-
gards to all of their friends.
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