The Ballinger Ledger (Ballinger, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 11, Ed. 1 Monday, August 4, 1969 Page: 1 of 4
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Ballinger, Texas 76821, Monday, August 4, 1969
10c Per Copy
Vol 83. No. II
FHONI ALL DKFAATMENTSt SAB-3BO1
City s tax rate due
setting on Wednesday
Viet war report
due Rotary Tues
Estimated pinpoint receipts from a one
Vote on Tuesday
(An Editoiral)
L
the city**
Budget for
the coming year ha*
in the required
Bri
Ballinger voter*
flood produc-
Ballinger in Tuesday'* election.
New Chest budget., set $14,500
a pipe in the
new officers, directors named
District to
i
tarn. A total of to
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Of thia number tl, or ta
New board members named inchide
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and.
haa
city
district con-
Soil Conser-
We don't like taxes. But we feel
it would be better to have the one
per cent tale tax for the city, rath-
er than put an additional burden
operation of the city during the
year They have continually stat-
it is not a question of whether or
funds are to be raised, but a
disposal of gar-
with mandatory
to the new high
increases in op-
ftoo
200
750
1.500
500
SOO
SOO
Officers were named Thursday for The
Ballinger Chest for the 1960 70 year.
r-u'l
Water Control
securing the
I
Miss Ramona Mui ter of Ballinger has
been named to the Dean’s Last tor the
Spring Semester at Our Lady at the
Lake College in San Antonio, it has been
announced
the blame for things going, up —
everything costs more today than
it did even just a year ago.
Teachers meet annually for training
in new developments and trends in Agri-
culture Education.
He went to Vietnam in January 1968
for a 12 month tour He is now assigned
to Headquarters and Headquarters Co .
1H Corps, Fort Hood. Texas, while par-
ticipating In the Army National Speakers
program
According to George H. Hurt, direc-
tor of Agriculture Education, guest
speaker for the opening session Tuesday
will be Herbert J. Head, general market-
ing manager for Ford Motor Company,
Birmingham, Michigan. His subject will
be centered around "Agriculture — the
Year 2000 ”
Jim Copeland will head the organisa-
tion as president, succeeding A. E. Cox.
tbs best way to raies the addition-
al funds for our city government.
We feel that it is the most equitable
way, for through this form of tax-
ation everyone living here does his
share to help pay for the cost of
city government.
fleer’s basic course at Fort Benning,
Georgia, in April 1967 He entered active
duty in July and served as operations
officer of the Infantry prill Sergeant
School at Fort Polk. IxniiftiUia, for the
remainder of the year.
Hoffman said that thus far
of dirgeton at VCWCD have
Lee Roy Kiesling, vocational agricul-
tural teacher at Ballinger High School,
will take part in the In Service Educa-
tional Workshop for teachers of Voca-
tional Agriculture to be held in Austin
August 5-8.
of Ballinger, as well
of the Council.
When Runnels County voters go to
the polls tomorrow, they won’t be going
to the usual voting places, necessarily.
For the Commissioner’s Court has com
bined several of the polls, with the re-
sult that only six voting places will be
used
The public has a need to know
about the operations of a foun-
dation of this type, for it is given
tax-exempt status under the law.
This is a privilege. If the privi-
lege is abused, action should be
taken by the authorities to re-
voke the tax-exemption provis-
ion.
with
dur-
Vice president will be Benton Watson.
Executive secretary of the organization
is Clifford Cook Charles Shepard is
treasurer.
Capt. Jack E. Mooney
... at Rotary
Miss Multer who has received the
academic award for the fourth con
secutive semester, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs Roman Multer of Ballin
ger. A junior Latin major, she is a grad-
uate of St Joseph High School Rowena.
Sister Mary Clare Metz, Academic
Dean, explained that the citation for
high standard of academic achievement
is awarded to those who maintain a
scholastic average of 2.8 on a 3.0 scale.
Mooney is a native of Bryan, Texas.
His parents are Mr and Mrs. A T.
Mooney of Bryan His wife, Linda, is the
daughter of Mr and Mrs. Eddie Spohn
of Troy, Texas.
In BaDinger, all four boxes — Pre-
cincts 1, 2, 3 and 4 — will vote in the
Commissioner’s Court Room at the
An election will be held Tues-
day, to decide whether the City
of Ballinger will adopt the one
per cent sales tax. It is important
that every voter in the Cly go and
voe — regardless of how you vote.
Captain Jack E Mooney, who wean
four military awards for valor and who
was twice wounded while serving in the
Vietnam jungle last year, will speak at
the Ballinger Rotary Club at noon Tues-
day.
Captain Mooney is now a member of
the Army National Speakers Program,
an extension of the Army Speakers Pro-
gram which has provided Army speakers
on request for public platforms for sev-
eral years.
The program provides audiences with
an opportunity to hear the first hand ex-
periences and observations of recent
Vietnam returnees.
Ballinger Fire Dept. —_
Library , ■«,.------
West Texas Rehab Center
Livestock Show -----
Christmas Program
Heart Fund —----
Christmas Decorations
U.S.O ■ .!■■■■■ -
After careful study of
needs, and present day
operation, our City officials will
have to have more revenue to op-
erate ■ the service* now being of-
fered. This fact must be faced by
the residents
as members
He was with the 9th Infantry Division,
stationed in the jungle area near Bearcat,
south of Long Binh, and the rice paddies
near Bion Phuoc in the Delta. As a scout
leader for the 2nd Battalion (Mechan-
ized), 47th Infantry, he spent much of
his tour in Vietnam looking for or in
direct confrontation with the Viet Cong.
Captain. Mooney earned the .nation’s
third’s highest combat award, the Silver
Star, two awards of the Bronze Star Med
al with “V" device for valor, the Air Med-
al, the Army Commendation Medal
"V" device, and two Purple Hearts
ing his tour in Southeast Asia.
As a member of the 36th Infantry
gade of the Texas National Guard, Cap-
tain Mooney attended the Infantry Of
set, waiting the outcome of tomor-
row's elecion. They are much
aware that if the sales tax elec-
tion does not carry, the tax rate
will have o be set at a point high
enough to bring
amount of money.
Kiesling to workshop
in Austin this week
Ballinger City Commissioners will
meet Wednesday in a called meeting to
sei the tax rate for the City of Ballin-
ger for the coming year.
They have postponed the meeting, to
await the outcome of the City Sales Tax
election scheduled here Tuesday.
Valley Creek watershed project has
prevented some 182,000 in damages from
potential floods this past spring, accord-
ing to Woodrow Hoffman,
servationist with the local
vation Service.
Hoffman said that four
ing rainstorms fell in the wstershed
during May. with some sreas reporting
as much as 20 inches for the month.
Damage that might have occurred
was estimated by using losses that took
place prior to the installation of the pro
ject from similar rainstorms that pro-
duced floods.
Prior to the project, the money losses
from these four floods Would have been
sustained through washed out fences,
crops, soil, roads, sediment damage and
livestock losses
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Ballinger student on
Dean s list at OLL
In statements issued earlier this sum-
mer, Commissioners have pointed out
that additional funds will be required
for the
coming
ed that
not the
question of whether they will come from
a city sales tax or from increased pro-
perty taxes.
Forced change in the
hage and trash coupled
paving of roads leading
school site, and overall
erating costs of city services will require
additional funds, the commissioners have
said.
Homecoming at Crew* has been •dtod-
ulod for Sunday, August 10, according to
Edgar Porter, president of the Homo-
coming Committee. *'-K
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Highlighting the day will be dedica*
tion of the historical marker that has
been erected there.
Picnic lunch will be spread at MM*
at the Gymnasium.
Persons who are former residents o<
Crews, a* well as those presently living
there are Invited to attend.
after they are built.
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Soil Conservation Service la leepoaal*
Melvin Patterson was named Drive
Chairman for the fund solicitation, sched-
uled this year for an October 7 begin-
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Courthouse. Clifford Cook will be elec-
tion judge there.
In Winters, all persons who normally
Some 1158 vocational agricultural
teachers are expected to attend the meet-
ing. The VoAg educational program in
Texas is under the direction of the Di-
vision of Agriculture Education, Texas
Education Agency, “with George H. Hurt
a* division director.
Funding The Extremists
One of the questions people
often ask is where the extrem-
ist organizations get money to
finance their activities. Part of
the answer is that they get it
from liberal religious groups
such a? the Inter-religious Foun-
dation for Community Organi-
zation (IFC0>.
14W
LOto
Valley Creek
responsible for
rights of way, letting the raotracta. ap-
There’s no question as to For-
man's meaning. He spoke of
“armed confrontation and long
years of sustained guerilla war-
fare inside this country.” He
said he envisioned an “armed,
well-disciplined, black-controlled
government.”
He stated his ideology, say-
ing: “We are dedicated to build-
ing a socialist society inside the
United States, where the total
means of production and distri-
bution are in the hands of the
state and that must be led by
black people.”
This, then, is the revolutionary
program at Detroit that was
made possible by the funds of
the Interreligious Foundation
for Community Organization
and by the giving of innocent
people who had no idea of what
their contributions were fund-
ing.
However, this Is not a rare ex-
ception. IFCO has been engaged
in aiding other organizations of
this type. For instance. IFCO
gave money to the Black Con-
gress in Ia>s Angeles. This group
isn’t a community uplift organi-
zation, not by any means. The
Senate Permanent Investiga-
tions Subcommittee has heard
testimony that characterized
the Black Congress as a coali-
tion of extremist groups, inciud-
Churchmen also have a legit-
imate interest in the doings of
IFCO, for a number of Protes-
tant denominations have given
money to the foundation.
Actually, it is well-known that
IFCO is deeply involved in aid-
ing militant groups engaged in
stirring strife. For example, the
Interreligious Foundation
for Community Organiza-
tion authorized up to $50,000 to
convene a National Black Eco-
nomic Conference in Detroit
last April. It was at this confer-
ence that James Forman issued
his notorious “black manifesto”
demanding “reparations” from
the churches. What isn’t well
known are the profoundly anti-
American remarks that Forman
made at the conference.
In his talk, Forman declared:
“We live inside the U. S.,
which is the most barbaric coun
try in the world, and we have a
chance to help bring this govern-
ment down.”
In most countries of the world,
such a disloyal statement would
be grounds for a treason trial.
In America today, however, al-
most every' type of disloyalty is
tolerated and excused.
An important phase of the training
session will be 11 workshops conducted
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons in
subject* such as ’’Winter Feeding and
Performance of Heifers," "Use and Safe-
ty of Herbicides," “Swine Management
and Production”, “Farm Credit," "Cre-
ative Teaching Innovations”, and "De-
veloping a Program in Off-Farm Agricul-
ture Occupations."
"High on the Totem Pole” will be the
Thursday morning topic for Reagan V.
Brown, Extenaion sociologist from Texas
AAM University. "How Recent legisla-
tion Effects You as a Vocational Teach-
er" will be discussed by John R Guem-
pie, assistant commissioner for Voca-
itonal and Adult Education.
have a choice:
higher property
tax rate on our homes and bust-
The Project consists of two parte.
First L« the application of the land-treat-
ment measured by individual land users.
TTiexe practice* include those of ter-
races, contour farming, management
of crop stubble, proper grazing of grass-
land* and farm ponds.
This part of the project is the responsi-
bility of the Runnels Upper Clear Fort
and Middle Clear Fork Soil and Water
Conservation Districts that have portions
of th2 watershed within them.
A summary of the record for these
districts show that more than 100 per
cent of all the planned practices U*K,
were to be applied over the past tow
years have been established on the
ground.
Second portion of the project, Hoff-
man continued, is the floodwater dams.
Fifteen of the proposed 20 dame were
built when the May rainstorms Mt JbS
of these dams functioned as they were
expected to.
In doing this, the floodwater was held
behind the dams and automatically re-
leased through
controlled rate.
vegetate the dams, furnishing
inc assistance for design,
construction.
SECOND
Time Around
> Budget fet for the year is 114.500.
and is broken down into the following
ergsnizotious;
Absentee voting closed In this election
on Friday.
As in all statewide elections, re turns
from Runnels County will be gathered
at the Ledger office in Ballinger, for
transmission to the Texas Election Bu-
reau where they will be included in state*
wide returns.
per cent city sales tax at about $40,000
per year.
In statements before civic clubs
other groups, Mayor Odell Howard
pointed out the advantages of the
sales tax, and urged its passage.
Polls will open at 8 a m. Tuesday in
Ballinger City Hall and remain open until
7 p m Qualified voters are those persons
who live within the city limits of Ballin-
ger and possess a valid voter registra-
tion certificate.
Six boxes open in county
for Tuesday's election
Captain Mooney is a member of Sigma
Delta Chi professional journalism fra-
ternity, past member of the Kiwanjs
Club and Jaycees of Temple, Texas, Be-
fore entering the Army he was a news-
man for the Temple Daily Telegram.
Homeco
Crews Aug.
would vote in Precinct 5 (Crews); Pre-
cinct 6 (East Winters); Precinct 7 (West
Winters) all will be voting at Winters
City Hall. Election judges will be Tf H.
Worthington and W. T, Billups.
Also combined will be Precinct t
(Cochran); Precinct 9 (Pumphrey); Pre-
cinct 10 (Wingate) and Precinct 11 (Wil- j
meth) with all of these voting at the
Wingate School. D. B. Vick and Ruby
Folsom will be in charge of the voting.
Precinct 12 voters will cast ballots at
Miles City Hall, where Carl Waldron
and Gus Backman' will be judges.
Precinct IS (Rowena) will vote at the
Rowena Fire Station, with Otto Droll»
and U-roy Schuhmann as judges.
Precinct 14 (South Norton) and Pre-
cinct 15 (Hagan) will vote together at
the Norton school gymnasium. In charge
of voting will be Cecil Roper and C. J.:
Robinson. r > >12
$82,000 damages prevented
by waterflood projects in area
A E Cox, Albert Helm I-eon a rd Esler.
Doug Coursey. Benton Watson. Hugo
Vogelsang and Dick Holstead.
Directors whose term* continued
through thia year include George
Scruggs, Ernest Caskey, C. Y. Lewis,
Joe Trevino. Charles Shepard. E L.
KlrMen, James Copeland. Dtek Richey.
E. B. Underwood. Foy Farmer. Eskell
LEDGER
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