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.HACKNEY RESIGNS
Governor Preston Smith has announced that Burton Hackney, Welafre Commissioner, will become associate director of the Governor's Office of Comprehensive Health Planning. The state welfare board sdheduled a meeting this afternoon apparently to accept Hackney's resignation as Commissioner. Hackney According to the governor/had requested the r reasons~ change fof health. The governor is considering Deputy Commissione Herb Wilson and a University of Texas executive