Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether § 29 of the Texas Unemployment Compensation Act elected coverage for all services performed for the State, notwithstanding the exemptions from employment contained in § 17(g)(5) of that Act.

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John L. Hill, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether or not, a Laredo fireman who was killed or disabled while performing fire fighting duty in Nuevo Laredo would qualify under the provisions of the Firemens’ Pension Law as set out under Vernon’s Revised Civil Statutes 6243e as amended.

Progress is reported for a program to demonstrate by 1976 an experimental gas turbine powered automobile which meets the 1976 Federal Emission Standards, has significantly improved fuel economy, and is competitive in performance, reliability, and potential manufacturing cost with the conventional piston engine powered, standard-size American automobile. Procurement delays have caused an additional one-month slippage in engine deliveries. All test cell conversion and preparation tasks are complete. Assembly, qualification, and delivery to NASA of Engine 3 were accomplished. Vehicle installation design tasks were completed. Vehicle structural modifications were completed. Initial operation of the first vehicle has slipped two weeks due to engine delivery schedule changes. The planned training activity for the NASA technician took place. Endurance activity has included continued testing of molded insulation and the start of testing of new coarse pitch regenerator drive gears. Testing of a variable geometry combustor for control schedule optimization started. The all-ceramic regenerator core program was formulated, and work started on design and fabrication or procurement of core, drive, and seal hardware required specifically for these cores. The integrated control system sub-contract is delayed pending resolution of the adjustments to the scope of work. An elasto-plastic stress analysis program is being written in …

The United Aircraft Research Laboratories are engaged in a program to investigate the use of a dense, mirror-confined, laser-produced plasma as the target for a neutral-injection beam and to examine this technique for establishing and maintaining a high-temperature, high-density, steady-state, mirrorconfined fusion plasma. The program is a direct extension of the current UARL investigations of the capture and confinement of laser-produced plasmas in a minimum-B mirror field. The overall program plan of the UARL Laser-Initiated Target Experiment involves four parts. The first of these is the laser heating of a solid particle positioned within the experiment chamber by an ultrahigh- vacuum suspension system to create a filly ionized plasma of ~10/sup 16/ to 10/ sup 17/ ions and electrons at a temperature of 0.5 to 1 keV. The second part of the program is the capture and confinement of the high-temperature laser-produced plasma to form a stable, high-density (>10/sup13/ cm/sup -3/), mirror-confined target plasma which fills an appreciable fraction of the mirror field volume. Heating of the confined-target plasma to ~10 keV by charge-exchange interaction with an injected energetic neutral beam comprises the third part of the program, and the fourth is the creation of a collisional, steady-state, mirror-confined plasma …

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This report discusses four Presidential messages given between 1971 and 1973 regarding energy research and development and Executive Branch reorganization.