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GAS TAX HIKE
The Texas Highway Department says it needs mdre money for constrcution and maintenance. Accordingly, State Highway Engineer J-C Dingwall said yesterday the Texas Highway Commission will ask the 1973 legilsature to increase the gasoline.to x. If lawmkares agree to the need it would be the first hike in gasoline taxes