Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 38, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 23, 1981 Page: 1 of 20
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STA^rQWD, JON.ES COUNTY. TEXAS. 79553. WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 33.1981
Vol. 40. No. 3S
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Farmers Home Adm. tu deal
with farmers
individually
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Once a visitor, Clark '•
calls Stamford home
cases, particularly of-
Appraisers
May the light
of Christ
and
UNDERSTANDING
plus column with check
It is levied.
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NET PAYMENT
DECEMBER IMi
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Amon
Hamhn
Haskell
Knox City
Stamford
MR. and MRS. ROGER CLARK
... proper* to opon naw offices
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• DOROTHY CRAIG DRAIN
GREG JAKLEWICZ
1 JOHN G WENDEBORN
' JENNIFER CRAIG \
MAX MENDEZ
SERGIO BAEZ
JONNIE LAWSON
BETTY LEE
ELAINE SMITH
SHARON GILBREATH
MELODYVASEK
DAVID LAWHON
JYMANN HOKANSON
MRS. AUDIE BAIZE
MRS. ALICE BREDTHAUER
MRS. R.H. COBB
MRS. PHILIP OLSON
MR4 HELEN PIERCE
MRS. BARBARA THOMPSON
County Courthouse closes
st 12 noon Wednesday for
Christmas.
DPS office
c/oses for
holidays
holding on by their
fingernails." he said, ‘ and the
uncertainty of just what the
FmHA position was going to be
prompted Congressmen Jack
Hightower, Kent Hance. Mar-
vin Leath and me to meet With
FmHA Administrator Charles
Schuman and members of his
staff to get some answers."
Following the Friday morn-
ing meeting, Stenholm said he
felt "reassured that FmHA
would handle the cases on an in-
dividual basis and are seriously
trying to avert large-scale li-
quidations just to meet the ex-
act letter of the law.”
Stenholm expressed his conti-
nuing concern, however, with
the criteria to be applied to
those
* The Department of
Public Safety driver's
license office in Stamford
is closed Tuesday.
The office is also closed .
Monday in Anson and
Wednesday in Hamlin in
observance of the New
Year's holidays.
The offices reopen on
their respective days
beginning Jan. 4.
.GUIDE US
TO PEACE
Some 900 West Texas
farmers who were scheduled to
receive warnings from the
Farmers Home Administration
that their financing for the 1982
crop year was in danger, will be
dealt with on an individual
basis, Congressman Charles W.
Stenholm was assured by
FmHA Washington officials
Dec. 11.
Some ‘‘policy letters,” of-
ficial warnings from FmHA
that future financing would de-
pend on the farmer being cur-
rent on his 1981 loan, unless he
met certain criteria, have
already been senUo Texas bor-
rowers, Stenholm said. "A war-
ning of this type causes tremen-
dous concern among those
farmers who are already
C,
Haskell to 9.66 per cent ahead df
the I960 total of 1124,995 93
Continuing to top the surroun-
ding area to Hamlin which to ,
14,70 per cent ahead of last year
with 9101,250.89.
A December ta'k rebate check
of 18,372.64 led the city of
Stamford k into the plus col-
umn for 1981
The December payment
gives the city a total of
9143,513.1.4 in rebates for the
year, 2.56 per cent of the i960
total Of 9139,924.35. . ■/ —
Again, though, Stamford
trailed Haskell which received
a check for 98,401.11 in
December to boost that city's
1981 checks to 9137,066.01.
• - .... <
The post office window
at the Stamford post office
closes at 12 noon Thursday
but city and rural mail*
delivery continues as
usual that day. No mail .
will be delivered''
Christmas day but mail
delivery begins again
Saturday.
from Hightower's district, .
reportedly scheduled to receive
the warnings.
"We are trying to work close-
ly with the FmHA Ad-
ministrator to avoid any failure
of communications between
Washington and the local
FmHA administrators to cause
what could only be termed
economic disaster for the pro-
ducer involved." Stenholm ex-1
plained. "I'd have to add that
there will undobtedly be those
marginal operations that may
well go under if commodity
prices don't improve, but there
are many efficient producers
who are unjustly caught up in
this economic nightmare who
deserve every opportunity to
weather the storm,” he
continued
Single Copy
Price
December Tax Rebate Payments
’. " < —— .....: -■>-*
American, Institutions
close for the holidays
• 8.401.11
• J.2S4 40
• M72(4 .
MICROFILM CENTER ’
•6X 48436
DALLAS, TX. 7523g
The Stamford American
closes Thursday at 1 p.m.
and does not reopen until 8
a m. Monday in obser-
vance of Christmas.
The First National Bank
in Stamford and Big Coun-
try Savings close at 12
noon Thursday and are
also closed until Monday
morning.
Stamford ''City Hall is
closed both Thursday and
Friday while the Jones
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and Sanden. A plan to merge May of 1975 with T bachelor of
with another firm there and a science degree In accounting
the illness of an aunt in Stam- and began his career in Cob
ford, Gladys Webb, prompted oMUtoZsUT
the Clarks to/retum to Texas
The Jones County Appraisal
District is mailing applications
for partial exemptions from
taxation in February.
These exemptions are. from
taxation by school districts foi\
a residential homestead owned
' hy a person 65 years of age or
older and/or by a disabled
adult. These exemptions also
include open-space land ap-
plications for productivity
value - . .
Property owners falling in
these categories have until May
1 to file for these exemptions.
A new partial exemption
from taxation for 1982 has been
granted to implements of farm-
ing or ranching. Rendition
forms are available at the Ap-
praisal District office, 1137
East Court Plaza in Anson.
Appraisal officials report
that work in the county\is pro-
gressing with appraisers of
residential, commercial, in-
dustrial, agricultural and per-
sonal properties working in
various parts of the district at
this time. y
Persons having property in
the cities of Anson, Hamlin,
Lueders or Stamford; school
districts of Anson, Hamlin.
Lueders-Avoca, Hamby or „
Stamford; hosptial districts o,
Hamlin or Stamford; or the
West Central Texas Municipal
Water District in Jones County
are involved in the current
reappraisal.
ficial FmHA policy regarding
conynodity pricing projections.
".The question is whether a
farmer's whole livelihood will
be determined by actual cur-
rent commodity prices that
presently don’t even come close
to allowing him enough income...
to pay back his loan or some
obscure pricing formula set ar-
bitrarily either in Washington
or the state level that just
doesn't reflect the seriousness
of the current situation,"
Stenholm said.
Areas of Texas, including
West Central Texas and the
High Plains region, have been
particularly hard hit. with
some 100 farmers in Stenholm \s
Congressional District. 4oo
from Hance s district and 400
^City creeps back over
The boy who once used to
visit Stamford during summer
vacation has returned to this
community to begin a career as
a certified public accountant.
Roger Clark and wife, Sandy,
plan to open their office at 201,
East Moran Jan. 4. They will w MrD
share space with Dr. Charles Sheriff's Posse.
Cromwell, local optometrist.
The Clarks recently moved to
Stamford from Colosado Sp6
Have yourself
A MERRY. LITTLE
Christmas
The optional one per cent city
sales tax to collected along with
the state four per cent sales tax
by merchants and businesses
and to rebated each month by
and the city where Clark often
visited in the summers as a
boy.
Clark .was born and raised in
Fort Worth and between the
years 1966-65, made annual
summer visits west. He was a
of the Haskell County
He attended Texas Wesleyan
College in Forth Worth part-
time while working for hto
COMPARABLE
PAYMENT 1M»
IMI PAYMENTS IMS PAYMENTS
PERCENT
CHANGE
TO HATE
TO DATE
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• (1,4(8.90
up 12 55%
• 4.904.02
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• 5,3(0 .SB
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up 9.(6%
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• 64.N0.il ,
• (0.3(0 41
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• 4.150(1
•143.513 14
•133,934.36
up 2.M%
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