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THE GROOM NEWS, GROOM, CARSON COUNTY, TEXAS 79039
THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1971
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Phone 2821
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City Barber Shop
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Open 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
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HAIRCUTS—$1.75
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A Complete
Dry Cleaning
Pressing Service
Laundry Service
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No. 1170
Groom, Texas
Phone 248-3521
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A COMPLETE LINE OF
BUILDING MATERIALS
• Airport Grant Received . . .
Federal Aviation Administration
approved a $419,974 grant to Tex-
as for a comprehensive study of
if they're destroyed, misplaced, or get into
the wrong hands, you get your money back.
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Entered as second class mail at the Post Office at Groom, Carson
County, Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879.
Edited and published by MAX and HELEN WADE
Office Phone No. 3311— Residence Phone No. 3541
Groom, Texas 79039
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Stated Meeting 2nd. Tuesday
Floor practice 4th Tuesday
April-Sept., Inch—8:30 p.m.
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J. M. BROOKS, W.M.
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cast regional and statewide
mands for air transportation.
Texas. Grant seeks development
of a plan that can be used to fore-
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sign the bill without the gasoline
tax increase.
With this problem once more
hopefully resolved lawmakers turn-
ed to a hurry-up job of completing
major mandatory duties and hun-
dreds of minor ones before the May
31 adjournment date.
Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes expressed
confidence that the tough congress-
ional and legislative redistricting
jab can be accomplished in two
weeks.
Other pending business, given
high priority by federal court ac-
We Invite You To Attend All Services—
—SUNDAY—
Sunday school . 9:45 a.m. Training Union . .6:30 p.m.
Morning Worship 11 a.m. Evening Worship 7:30 p.m.
Prayer Meeting, Wednesday..................7:30 p.m.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
IRA HARRISON, Interim Pastor
Groom, Texas
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AUSTIN, Texas. — Gov. Preston
Smith surprised Texas lawmakers
by announcing he would veto the
$90 million tax bill passed by the
House and Senate unless they “cut
out the fat.”
He contended that this measure
provided $300 million more than
was needed.
After an anxious 24 hours, a
compromise began to emerge; and
the House and Senate satisfied the
Governor by knocking out a $287
million gasoline tax raise (two
cents on the gallon). Smith found
that feature the “most repulsive”
KELVINATOR REFRIGERATORS
in the giant revenue-raising meas-
ure
Governor Smith said he would futuresairport .developmentneeds.
Funds, together with $209,987 in
state money, will be used to devel-
op an airport systems plan for
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Your Business Appreciated
LEVEN LAUNDRY &
DRY CLEANERS
Bernadine Leven, Prop.
501 E. Third Ph. 248-3701
GROOM, TEXAS
tion invalidating state laws, in-
cludes passage of a new voter reg-
istration act and lowering political
filing fees.
’Legislators plan to add other rev-
enue with a $40 million drink tax,
$22 million additional gallonage
levy on liquor and wine, and a $3
million increase in out-of-state col-
lege tuition.
Lawmakers, already have started
a quick-time march to meet the ad-
journment deadline. Most of the
bills introduced since the opening-
day last January will clear during
the next ten days.
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• U. S. To Help Make Rain . . .
Federal aid through weather
modification experiments aimed at
bringing rain for bone dry areas
of Texas has been promised, Gov-
ernor Smith announced.
Operational details of a cloud-
seeding project will be coordinated
with the U.S. Department of De-
fense, the Bureau of Reclamation
of the Interior Department and the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
Smith said he is hopeful that this
step may bring President Nixon to
realize the “tragic extent of the
drought disaster in Texas.” He
pointed out that half of the wheat
crop already has been lost to
drought and that agricultural pro-
duction income loss would be more
than half a billion dollars if the
drought were broken immediately.
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• Land Bonds Sold . . .
Veterans Land Board sold $23.5
million in bonds to continue financ-
ing the veterans land program of
low-interest, long-term farm-ranch
loans.
Land Commissioner Bob Arm-
strong said the sale will enable an-
other 3,000 Texas veterans to get
loans under the revived program.
Bonds were sold just under the
constitutional interest rate ceiling—
at 4.4992 per cent. Ceiling is 4.5
per cent. Buyers included the Har-
ris Trust and Savings Bank, Bank-
ers Trust Company, Northern Trust
Company, Chase Manhatten Bank
N.S., Continental Illinois National
Bank and Trust Company, First
National Bank in Dallas and 41'
others.
Armstrong said that there were
three other bids of $30 million in
bonds offered for sale. Buyers
represented all areas of the coun-
try. .
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• Attorney General Opinions . . .
Atty. Gen. Crawford C. Martin
has held that the Parks and Wild-
life Commission and similar state
agencies can be increased in size
by adding new members without
abolishing present boards.
In other recent opinions, Martin
concluded that:
A school board may contract
with a teacher whose first cousin
has been el te^ io the board but
has not take 1 Contract re-
mains valid after the relative qual-
fies for office.
A pupil promoted to a high school
grade not taught in the home dis-
trict can transfer to any other ac-
credited high school, and the resi-
dent district must pay the receiv-
ing district’s legally-imposed high
school tuition fee.
Houston Independent School Dis-’
trict has the option of selecting'
procedures available to it in estab-
lishing a junior college district.
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A bill to permit an individual to
petition for leave to file quo war-
ranto proceedings without the suit
being brought by the state attorney
general, district or county attorney
is unconstitutional.
Monthly salary of state em-
ployees whose salary is budgeted
on an annual basis is determined
by dividing the annual figure by
12. Opinion also sets a standard
method of determining weekly or
hourly pay for such employees.
Money collected as admission
fees and concessions profits at state
properties may be spent for main-
k tenance and repair of property. I
> A notary public can legally use a
. rubber stamp seal and India ink.
County employees are entitled to
retain jury fees for jury service.
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■ • Appointments. Resignations . . .
■ Governor Smith named 18th Dis-
’ trict Judge John A. James Jr., of!
Cleburne to the 10th Court of Civil
Appeals. He succeeds the late
Judge Frank Wilson.
Smith picked Ralph F. Block of)
Houston to serve on the Battleship
Texas Commission, replacing C. H.
Coffield of Houston who resigned.
Governor accepted the resigna-
tion of Dr. Elmer Baum of Austin
from the State Banking Board.
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• Bank Bills Proposed . . .
A series of bills to prevent re-
currence of such failures as that
. experienced by the Sharpstown'
State Bank and to strengthen the!
state’s powers over the banking in-
dustry were introduced in the Sen-j
ate by the General Investigating,
Committee. |
One of the key measures gives,
the banking commissioner expand-
ed authority to order “problem
banks” to correct shortcomings
without actually closing them. An-;
other bill would prevent insider i
dealings by officers and directors
of insurance companies. |
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• Texas News Briefs . . .
An increase in state unemploy-
ment benefits from $45 to about
$77 a week has been approved by
the Senate, but the proposal is
heading for conference committee.
House approved a $60 figure.
Both House and Senate commit-
tees have advanced a bill to pro-
vide for 100 per cent state financ-
ing of the minimum foundation
school program.
The Texas Aeronautics Commis-
sion. turned down requests by Bran-
iff and Texas International Air-
ways to reopen a case against the
Southwest Airlines' authority to fly
between San Antonio, Houston and
Dallas/Fort Worth.
Governor Smith has signed a bill
to provide for more flexibility in
student loan programs.
President Nixon and Vice Pres-i
ident Agnew will attend the dedi-
cation of the Lyndon B. Johnson
Library in Austin, May 22.
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• Courts Speak ...
State Supreme Court in Potter
County case held that signing by
an injured person of a release set-
tling a damage claim is valid only
for that person and no other in-
volved in the dispute.
High Court told four contractors
for San Antonio’s Hemisfair ’68
that they couldn’t collect on defer-
red payment certificates and un-
sold tickets which they received
for partial payment of their serv-
ices. Firms sued City of San An-
tonio, San Antonio Fair Inc., and
the San Antonio Urban Renewal
Agency.
Austin District Judge Herman
Jones enjoined the sale of histori-
cal (1755-1946) documents, “The
Laredo Archives,” to which the
state lays claim. Value is estimat-
ed at from $350,000 to $1 million.
One who kills with a weapon not
generally classed as deadly must
be permitted to testify as to intent,
Court of Criminal Appeals ruled.
Third Court of Civil Appeals up-
held the 1968 Railroad Commission
turn - down of an application by
Southern Pacific Transportation
Company to transfer the company
railroad agency from Elsa to Edin-
burg.
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Wade, Max & Wade, Helen. The Groom News (Groom, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 20, 1971, newspaper, May 20, 1971; Groom, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1512150/m1/2/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Carson County Library.