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CALENDAR OF EVENTS
WEEK OF AUGUST 15-21
p.m. Wednesday Bible Class, 7
p.m.
Thursday, August 15th
• CoDA, Courthouse Basement,
7:00 p.m., call 323-8500 for addi-
tional information.
Friday, August 16th
• First Day of School
• Lions Club, Fire Hall, 12 Noon
Saturday, August 17th
Sunday, August 18th
• First Baptist Church, Sunday
School 9:45 a.m.. Morning Wor-
ship, 11:00 a.m. Training Union,
6:00 p.m., Evening Worship, 7:00
p.m.
• Central Baptist Church Sunday
School 10 a.m., Morning Worship
I I a.m., Evening Worship 6 p.m.
• Sacred Heart Catholic Church,
Sunday Mass, 9 a.m., CCD Classes
10 a.m.
• Believer’s Covenant Sunday Wor-
ship, 10:30 a.m.
• First United Methodist Church,
Early Worship Service 8:30 a.m.,
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Morning
Worship 10:30 a.m., Evening
Worship 6:30 p.m.
• Assembly of God Christian Educa-
tion 10 a.m., Evening Worship,
6:30 p.m.
• Pentecostal Church, Sunday
School, 10 a.m., Morning Worship
I I a.m., Evening Worship 7 p.m.
• First Christian Church, Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship 10:30 a.m., Evening Worship 6
p.m.
• First Presbyterian Church Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship Service
I I a.m.
• Church of Christ, Sunday Bible
Class 9:30 a.m., Morning Worship
10:30 a.m., Evening Worship 6
Tuesday, August 20th
• Rotary Club, 12 noon, WCTU
Wednesday, August 21st
• Driver’s License Exam, 9-4, Court-
house Basement
• Panhandle Area Transit, 10-3.
Contact County Judge for details.
• Sagebrush Painters, 10 a.m., Fire
Hall
SERVICES
• Tralee Crisis Center for Women,
call toll-free 1-800-658-2796,
Pampa.
• Sharing is Caring food pantry and
clothes closet. Saturdays 9 a.m.-1
p.m., 1st and Elsie. Donations
through local churches or directly.
• Planned Parenthood, 419 Main,
12:30-5:30 weekdays, except
Thursday. 323-5732.
• Panhandle Transit, rural transpor-
tation service. Call collect, 24
hours in advance of need, 862-
4131.
• National Adoption Network, call
I -800-Choices (I -800-246-4237).
• National Phone line to report Child
Abuse: 1-800-4-A-CHILD (or I-
800-422-4453)
• American Cancer Society services,
Agnes Adams, 323-6258, Wayne
Baker, 323-6519.
• Canadian Girl Scouts Service Unit.
Call Shannon Meadows, 323-
5426.
• Drivers License testing, at Court-
house every Wednesday, also the
2nd and 5th Tuesdays, 9-12, 1-4.
Officer Bourland.
• Alcoholics Anonymous, Monday
nights, Courthouse basement, 8
p.m.. Call 323-8033. 323-8221, or
323-8500. Al-Anon, Thursdays
nights 8:00 p.m., Courthouse base-
ment.
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letter that is signed and not libelous.
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Retain that which is thine
By Wales Madden, Jr.
■ N APRIL, GOVERNOR BUSH named an inde-
Ipendent and a diverse group of 17 Texans to serve
on the Citizens’ Committee on Property Tax Relief.
The Committee, broadly representative of the
classes and culture of Texas, brings personal experi-
ence as taxpayers as well as expertise on the impact
of taxes and jobs and our ability to keep and attract
business.
“The role of the committee is to determine the will
of Texas. The citizens’ committee wall take Texas’
temperature and gauge whether our state is ready to
take action to provide property tax relief,” Governor
George Bush said in announcing the Committee last
April.
The Committee has scheduled fourteen Town
Hall Meetings around the State to seek public input
about rising school property taxes and possible ways
of replacing those taxes with a fairer way to raise
revenue. Alternatives to the school property tax
could include a gross receipts tax, a business activity
tax, expanding the sales tax or a combination of those
taxes. It would not include an income tax.
The Meeting for the Panhandle area is scheduled
to be held in Amarillo Thursday, August 22 at 9:30
a.m. in the Garden Center at the Amarillo Medical
Center. Those wishing to make comments will sign
registration cards. Everyone expressing a desire to
speak will be given the opportunity.
Come one, come all.
During the past ten years, Texas property tax
rates have more than doubled. Our property taxes
have climbed faster than in all other states but two.
The school tax accounts for approximately sixty per-
cent of all property taxes and the increases have come
in a period when the tax base has been stagnant.
That’s a double whammy for us.
The burden imposed by projierty taxes on rural
Texas is particularly oppressive. The old panacea
that the cost of living in smaller towns and on farms
and ranches is lower than the cost in cities is a
cop-out. Folks in rural communities might be re-
sourceful and resilient, but they do not have the same
menu of earning opportunities as that afforded their
city cousins. Finding a second job to supplement
income received from the first job is just a tad
tougher.
O.K., a majority of us agree that property taxes
are the pits; but, if we ax the school property tax in
its entirety, we have to generate in excess of $10
billion a year to replace it. The change must be
revenue neutral.
Think about it — $10 billion a year. Even if you
w'hisper it, the task looms like a giant West Texas
dust devil on a hot July day.
As I mentioned a moment ago, our options are
limited. Gov. Bush admonished us to exclude consid-
eration of an income tax. It seems as though our
alternatives are:
a business activity tax (Depending on how' this is
calculated, this could include the value-added con-
cept.):
a business gross receipts tax (This could be as-
sessed on all types of businesses: corporations, part-
nerships, proprietorships and other entities.);
expansion or increasing the rate of the sales tax;
or
a combination of the above.
Again, please keep in mind that for even’ dollar
taken from the school property tax fund, a dollar
must be found from some source other than an in-
come tax. We need your help in evaluating these
sources.
Governor Bush sincerely wants to hear from you.
Our committee is the conduit for your ideas. Plan on
attending the Town Hall Meeting in Lubbock on
Thursday, August 29, even if you have to drive a mile
or three to get there.
Finally, a Town Hall Meeting is the perfect forum
for venting steam. That is normal and acceptable. In
this meeting, we also want your positive input on
possible solutions. We want to construct, not destroy.
(Wales Madden, Jr. is a member of the Citizens’
Committee on Property Tax Relief.)
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