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Page 8 THE BATTALION WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 16. 1978 -iRst stxxte Bank HEARNE, TEXAS (College Station tBank-pending) c We now have a Toll Free number for your convience: 693-1414 ^et us put a bonus in your checking account. Postage paid bank-by-mail envelopes - No charge. Maximum rates on savings and time deposits. 5% interest rebates on new car loans with no late monthly payments (deposit customers only). Call 693-1414 today and ask about our rainbow of banking services. u ^Helping you is our business. 99 c Member FDIC During the summer months reduce your bills as much insulating 30% by your home. 'We saved $97 last month by insulating with Therm-Foam. Mr. & Mrs. Bob Wortman Hilltop Lakes, Texas THERM-FOAM INSULATION CO. 822*6320 the state Briscoe signs tax reliefu bill from special sessioi i United Press International AUSTIN — Gov. Dolph Briscoe has endorsed the proposed tax relief amendment worked up by a special session of the Legislature, clearing the measure to be submitted to vot ers Nov. 7. Briscoe also signed into law Monday a bill to implement the truth-in-taxation provisions of the constitutional amendment and a measure requiring ballots to list the proposal as the “Tax Relief Amend ment. ” Other proposed constitutional changes are listed on the ballot sim ply as Proposition 1, Proposition 2, etc. Briscoe made no comment on the proposal Monday, issuing a brief announcement that he had signed the measure along with eight other bills passed by the special legislative session that ended Aug. 8. The governor’s signature on the constitutional amendment was un necessary since a governor has no power to approve or veto submis sion of charter changes to voters. Briscoe endorsed the proposal last week, saying if voters approve the measure that it could provide tax breaks for homeowners, senior citizens, farmers and ranchers. In addition to requiring school districts to grant partial tax exemp tions to some property owners, the amendment would require all local F0 ucti' ante r.’s governments to alert taxpayers hold public hearings before U; ^ any action to increase tax levies® The truth-in-taxation bill sp out procedures for determiri when a re-appraisal of property ot] ues or change in assessment nl will trigger the requirement forB g u (. special notices of tax increases. ^ Another bill Briscoe signedi ° law Monday allocates $60,000» Secretary of State’s Office tops publication of notice about the] ^ posed constitutional amendmej The governor also signed a measure transferring the for Gatesville State School for B« the Texas Department of Ca Rons for use as a prison. Heavy, damaging rainfall ione ith oise, temporarily relieves drougi Rains which deluged parts of the Texas Hill Country will have little agricultural benefit, but much of the state faired better, an agricultural meteorologist with the Environmental Studies Service Center said. “There are still a few areas of the state that need a good soaking, ” said James M. Yates, who is affiliated with the National Oceanic and At mospheric Administration’s Na tional Weather Service at Texas A&M University. “Except where the rain was excessive, 1 think most of the rest of the state benefited. “The major improvement as far as agriculture goes is in the pastures and ranges, where they have been awfully dry in recent months,” he said. “In some cases there will be a significant benefit to crops already in production.” As for the drought situation, Yates said the conditions are temporarily improved. “But that’s about as far as I would want to go now, he said. The shift in drought conditions is primarily due to a greater degree of weather variability in the Gulf of Mexico. A series of tropical waves sweeping across the Gulf would throw a great deal of moisture to ward Texas. The rains from the tropical storm which moved into Mexico south of Brownsville were typical of what can occur, the meteorologist said. As storms move inland, much of the wind damage potential is di minished. The storms still contain huge amounts of atmospheric moisture which many people tend to forget. It was that moisture that triggered the torrential rains in the Hill Country, Yates said. The recent rains will do farmers in South Texas little good, he said, since in many areas the crops were already harvested, including sor ghum. Probably the most benefit to crops was in the rolling and high plains of the state. There the rains arrived in time to do some good, Yates said. Even the relatively small rainfall in those areas could significantly improve crop conditions and result in higher yields in the fall. For the areas from San Antonio to Wichita Falls, crop land was absolutely innundated. The heavy rains did more harm than good agriculturally. However, there are stiff some areas of Texas that remain dry. In a line from the Bryan-College Station area to east of Dallas, the rainfall remains far below average. “The Blacklands got some pretty decent rains, but east of there they didn’t get much,” Yates said. Broken down into regions, the rainfall pattern for the state indi cated East Texas averages can be measured in the hundredths of an inch, and that’s about it, meteorologist said. In the Bl lands, the rainfall runs from 1 to 2Vi inches and on the rd plains I inch to 3-inch averages vail. South of Wichita Fallstoa irance of Abilene, the rains have bet - ding 5 inches to 15 inches. TheB fistfo Plains received alxnit an inch Areas west of San Antonio,* received close to 25 inches, have the least agricultural bent Yates said. The rain came down so last after the first couple of inches, soil was saturated. "It just couldn’t go throng the run off didn’t help anyone,’ said. Deputies discover fii last victi ease] Jame issior londas e on ; irrent ivers tion ( arital i "Chr »r of hat yc flf Ui QUIT pairing ] United Press Internatioiul i SAN LUIS PASS — Sheriff puties Tuesday recovered bodies of two brothers whoflb™ in the treacherous currenlsjiffL Luis Pass during a wc •rkeiid s\viiB as ming and fishing outing. 8 r °babl Capt. Gene Smith of the BrazoH^ 6 dti County Sheriffs Department*1 "7J e searchers recovered the \xkmellin Darrell Brown, 17, anqP fispatch Brown, 15, on GalvestonkM “7^ about a mile north of the pass Sen p u Deputies recovered the bods their brothers, John Brown, 27,“ aner ' Chris Brown, 21, on Monday The four brothers drown til me ' day. A fifth, Terrell Brown, 17, vived. Officia M bou erturn