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DISSOLVE OUT SLO-UO
CENITEi MOODYSF: SteX: SiITH
LE DiSTRICTING 4-4-4
will be matched up for the District 12 race this
year if both seek re-election. 0XZ-XZzt
In District 17, between Dallas and Lubbock,
Graham Purcell of Whitito Fallas and Omar Burleson
of Anson are now named to the same district...
and in south Texas, 0. Clark Fisher of San
Angelo and Abraham Kazen Junior of Larado are face
to face in District 21.
This confrontation of incumbents was the very
thing the Texas Legislature .> s trying to void when
it created many strnge shaped districts after the
1970 elections,
In Austin, Governor Preston Smith said this
afternoon that it would be "fruitless" to callanother specli session
for the legislature to
re-draw congressional districts again.
IORiE. .. OFE.. .
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Redistricting], script, January 22, 1972, 10:00 p.m.; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1514008/m1/7/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.