Kleberg County voters joined the rest of Texas in approving a series of constitutional amendments that ranged from expanded research dollars for universities to a funding method for more veterans hospitals in Texas and guarantees that peoples property could not be seized b eminent domain for purely economic development reasons. Only 1,035 voters turned out for Tuesday’s state constitutional amendments election, representing 5.8 percent of the county’s 17,724 eligible voters. Voters in Jutice of the Peace Precinct 1 approved of mixed alcoholic beverages and the sale of wine and hard liquor. The other three precincts approved the optional liquor sales election almost 30 years ago.

The vote was 287 in favor and 81 against the measure. Results of the state consti-tutional amendments election and liquor election will be in the Sunday edition.