Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 6, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 18, 1971 Page: 3 of 14
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MARCH 18, 1971—BURLESON STAR-3
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Seeking Place 2 School Board Post Charles W. Cox
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son as my mother is the
former Ruby Jenkins of
Burleson, and my great-
uncle is Loy Bransom,
owner of Bransom's gro-
cery stores.
I am currently employ-
ed as a senior computer
programmer by the City
of Fort Worth. I was pre-
viously employed by Gen-
eral Dynamics, and prior
to that spent four years
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Not the least of these
problems, is that of a
growing population and
thus growing schools. I
believe it is imperative
that responsible, qual-
ified persons be elected
to guide the schools 1n
their future plans. I *eel
that I can offer this gui-
dance, and with your sup-
port and vote I will strive
for the betterment of the
Burleson schools.
/s/Charles W. Cox,
Candidate for Place 2
Burleson School Board
I was the first of the
candidates to announce
for Place 2 on the school
Burleson school district.
The majority of my life
has been sepnt in some
way connected with the
public schools. I feel that
I have a keen insight into
the problems being faced
by parents, teachers, and
students. I feel that my
background and experi-
ence both in education and
business will prove most
beneficial if I am elected
to the Burleson School
Board.
I would like to make it
clear that I have no pre-
judices against or for any
person or policy associa-
ted with the Burleson
schools. I am proud of the
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board. I gave the matter
much consideration be-
fore filing. I feel that I
am qualified to represent
you, the residents of the
Even though it is not too
pleasant to talk about
\ school finance in relation
to school tax, the old say-
ing that both taxes and
death are inevitable is
We can
Someone wrote me a
letter the other day and
told me that I should stay
out of politics and stick
more to talking about the
classroom and teaching.
But, as long as it is my
responsibility to admin-
istrate the budget of your
schools, I feel it is my
duty to keep you informed
on financial matters as
they relate to the school.
I am not attempting to be
partisan or to politically
motivate you in any way.
I am just stating the facts
as I see them. Whether
you want to write letters
to your congressmen is
up to you. Frankly, my
letters to Washington are
already in the mail.
asked for an end to the
misdemeanor probation
for drunk drivers.
COURTS SPEAK—
Supreme Court in a Mont-
gomery County school
bond election case held
one must render proper-
ty (real or personal) for
taxation to be eligible to
certainly true,
avoid neither.
Unpleasant as it may
be, I would like to dis-
cuss school finance with
you today, in light of what
may happen if certain of
President Nixon's pro-
posals to the Congress
are enacted.
In the first place, he
has recommended dis-
continuing the school
lunch program except for
needy cases. At the pres-
ent time we are receiving
commodities plus five
cents per lunch and three
cents per carton of milk.
An estimate would bethat
lunches would have to cost
at least half as much
again if this program is
rescinded, For a family
with several children,
this could be a pretty
drastic increase in week-
ly expenditure to keep
children fed at school.
I, Charles W. Cox,
would like to use this
means and opportunity to
make myself known to the
voters in the Burleson
School Board election.
My wife, Patricia, my
son, Charles Wm. (Chuck)
and I live at Rt. 2, Box
195-A. We are all mem-
bers of the First United
Methodist Church of Bur-
leson, and I am a mem-
ber of the Administrative
Board. My son attends the
Burleson Schools. We are
all former residents of
Fort Worth, however, we
have strong ties in Burle-
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Burleson schools and the
Burleson community. I
am aware that there are
many new problems
which will have to be
faced in the near future.
AUSTIN,
blue-ribbon
has been formed to lead
the fight against income
taxation.
Midland attorney Tom
Sealy resigned from the
Coordinating Board, Tex-
as College and University
System to devote full time
to directing the work of
the statewide group.
Texas Association of
Taxpayers started with
an advisory committee of
300 prominent citizens.
Sealy announced that a
membership drive is get-
ting under way.
'/Our purpose is not ob-
struction, but rather an
honest and open effort to
help the Legislature de-
velop a reasonable tax
program and undertake
whatever economies are
possible in order to re-
solve this situation in the
regular session," Sealy
said. "We are united on
one broad principle--that
this should be done within
the present tax structure
and without enactment of
either a personal income
tax or a corporate income
tax."
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Ruling by Martin also
clarified the pay grade
classifications of super-
intendents and principals.
APRIL DRAFT CALL
—Col. Melvin N. Glantz,
state director of Selec-
tive Service, announced
the April draft call in
Texas is 1,033.
National call by the De-
partment of Defense is
for 17,000 men, allforthe
Army. April call for pre-
induction physical exami-
nation in Texas will be
4,001.
Glantz also said 51
Texas medical doctors,
four osteopaths and 32
dentists will be included
in a separate special in-
duction call for doctors
and dentists. National
call is for 1,531 MD’s,
77 osteopaths and 536
dentists.
Selective Service an-
nounced reduction in its
work force of about 15
per cent. Nationwide re-
organization may require
some local Texas boards
in heavily populated areas
to be merged.
SHORT SNORTS
Sen. Jack Hightower of
Vernon will be governor
for a day on April 3.
Bicentennial Commis-
sion recommended a pro-
gram for Texas’ partici-
pation in the nation's
200th anniversary cele-
bration.
^/Harlingen is the first
^a\’’crime-stop" telephone
number in cooperation
with the new state pro-
gram to report crimes.
Tex. — A
committee
State Affairs Committee,
indicated that he will not
lend his name to the bill
and that he is in no hur-
ry to schedule hearings.
AD RULES SET—Ad-
vertising regulations for
health insurance com-
panies to follow have been
drafted by the State In-
surance Board, to take
effect April 1.
Companies are in-
structed to stick strict-
ly to the truth and to close
loopholes that might de-
prive the policyholder of
coverage.
Special participating
policies drew close at-
tention and were termed
'Unfair, inequitable, mis-
leading and deceptive."
Tough rules drafted
earlier by a Board at-
torney were discarded in
favor of uniform regula-
tions recommended by the
National Association of
Insurance Commission-
ers. Insurancemen fav-
ored the latter.
Also, according to a
letter I have received
from Mr. Carl D. Per-
kins, chairman of the
committee on Education
and Labor in the U.S.
House of Representa-
tives, on the average,
states can expect a 20
percent reduction in
funds for elementary and
secondary education, 18
perent reduction in
funds for vocational ed-
ucation, 50 percent re-
duction in funds for edu-
cation professions devel-
opment and 60 percent
reduction in library pro-
grams if the President’s
recommendations on bud-
get are enacted.
I Your State Capitol.
BY..VERN SANFORD
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Ads must disclose the
waiting period that is
necessary before the ef-
fective date of the policy,
any illnesses not covered
and whether benefits list-
ed require more than one
policy for full coverage.
When existing ailments
are not covered, the ad
cannot imply that ones
medical history does not
affect the policy or the
claim payment. Use of
the phase "no medical ex-
amination required" is
thus limited.
Board plans to enforce
these rules by cease and
desist orders. Companies
which ignore the order
can be fined or havethier
license revoked.
TEXAS RATES LOW IN
SAFETY — Texas was
ranked in the bottom
quarter of states in a
federal evaluation of
compliance with federal
highway safety standards.
Gov. Preston Smith in
a letter to Transportation
Secretary John Volpe
protested the rating and
said that Texas' efforts to
comply have been "mis-
judged or ignored." He
said the Legisl^ure is
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based on such things as
motor vehicle inspection
and registration, li-
censing, codes and sta-
tutes, traffic courts,
driver education, emer-
gency medical services,
highway design, con-
struction and mainte-
nance and alcoholic bev-
erages in relation to
highway safety.
In a special message
to the Legislature, Smith
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the present s^Jes tax and pliance.
that 18 per cent of all
state revenues come
from natural resource
taxes which many states
do not levy.
Our organization, says
Sealy, feels that "this is
no time to strap income
taxes on the people" in
view of unemployment
and the shape of the econ-
omy.
It will argue a corpo-
rate income tax is "sim-
ply the forerunner of a
personal income tax."
Meanwhile, the House
passed $492.5 tax bill,
made up largely of sales
levy increases, arrived
in the Senate without a
sponsor. It was referred
to the State Affairs Com-
mittee.
Sen. W.T. Moore of
Bryan, chairman of the vote in such elections.
High Court, in a seven-
to-two verdict, reversed
the lower courts in a
Reeves County case and
concluded that a rancher
does not have legal title
to 160 acres of land even
though he maintained
fences for more than 10
years and kept his cattle
there.
Supreme Court de-
clined to hear arguments
over whether two social-
ist candidates should be
placed on Austin's city
election ballot. Two re-
fused to sign state loyalty
oaths.
AG OPINIONS—School
districts are not author-
ized to place certified
administrative staff per-
sonnel on a foundation
school program roster in
utilization of classroom
teacher units allotments
unless they meet the def-
inition of "classroom
teacher," Atty. Gen.
Crawford Martin has
held.
By Dr. T.M. Harvey i
Supt., Burleson Schools
Of all these recom
mendations, I am most
concerned with how the
cut in vocational allot-
ments would affect the
schools. In our case, we
have just started to try to
expand this area of our
curriculum. Holding our
vocational programs to
the current level, or cut-
ting them back would ser-
iously hamper our plans
to more individualize ed-
ucation for our students.
In a time when there is
more unemployment, it
would seem that we would
need to increase, rather
than decrease, funds for
this area.
Also, the P resident has
asked for complete elim-
ination of impact aid. This
would mean a reduction of
funds for our local
schools of at least
$50,000 yearly. This
would mean either elimi-
nation of certain pro-
grams, to be determined,
or an increase in local
funds to make up for the
loss.
I do not see an across
the board tax increase for
Burleson Schools next
year. We run a pretty
conservative program.
This year, we have no
excess teachers, meaning
that all professional per-
sonnel are authorized by
the state. This is rather
unusual, since most
schools do supplement
with some personnel out
of local funds. We are in
the unique position of hav-
ing very little industry
and as I have pointed out
before, homes will not
foot the bill for running a ■
normal school operation.
But, if the President's
recommendations do go
into effect, I can definite-
ly see the possibility of a
local tax increase by the
1972-73 school year.
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