Mount Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 13, 1987 Page: 2 of 16
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Psge 2, Mount Vornon Optic-Herald, Thursday, August 13,1987
Reader Lets Off Steam
To The Editor:
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RETAIL PRICE $1,795°°
for maintenance and $.056 being
used for bonded indebtedness.
With the construction of the new
school, the bond rate jumped to
$.1923 for the 1985-86 school
year, and the maintenance and
Franklin County Chamber
of Commerce Thursday,
Aug. 6, at the site of their
businesses on the south ser-
Tuesday. “If we can save some
money, we will consider it.”
Barker claims this is a very
recycle an old building, clean Qp
an eye-sore, save the tax-payers
money and keep construction
money at home while doing so.
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This is in regard to the Franklin tax vote to be held on Satur-
day, August 8, 1987.
I heard about this tax several weeks ago, no thanks to the
Optic-Herald. However, I was not aware of the date the vote
would take place.
Today, Thursday, Aug. 6, 1987, I read my weekly papers as
usual. Not a word about this vote was to be found in the Optic-
Herald.Not even in the Community Calendar column. However,
the Winnsboro News had a very nice article on the front page in-
cluding voting places. According to the Winnsboro News, a total
of approximately 50 people attended area meetings on the pro-
posed tax. Wish I knew how they found out about these meeting.
If they were announced in the Optic-Herald, I sure missed it.
When I called your office to let off some steam I was told the
information had been printed in the Public Notice section for
several weeks. I only had last weeks paper and as I expected, it
was not in that one.
How do you expect people to participate and take an interest in
important matters if they are not informed? Low attendance at
meetings and poor voter turnout is not due to disinterest, it’s due
to poor public awareness.
1 am including a copy of my letter of thanks to the Winnsboro
News. That’s where I get my information. I suggest that others
may want to do likewise.
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No portion of thia publication may be
reproduced, in whole or in part, without
written permiaaion from FOUR CORJ
NERS PUBLISHING, INC. © August IB,
1987. '.
In 1986-87, the maintenance
rate was $.6490, the bond rate was
$.1889, and the total rate was
$.8379.
With the two percent increase,
the proposed rate of $.94663 will
be $. 10873 above the 1986-87 rate.
The proposed rate would increase
the tax burden for a $50,000
house $54 above last year.
Since 1984, the value of the pro-
perty in the district has dropped
$37,354,700, primarily because of
devaluation of oil and gas prices.
With less of the total tax bill being
paid by oil and gas companies,
more of the tax burden has been
shifted to the homeowner.
A special meeting of the school
board has been set for 7 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 24 at the school to
amend the 1986-87 budget, to
adopt the 1987-88 budget, and to
set the tax rate for 1987-88.
Bids were awarded Cotton
Bakery for bread, Preston Dairies
for milk, and Blue Bell for ice
cream.
The board set school breakfast
and lunch prices for the 1987-88
school year. Breakfast for grades
K-12 will be $ 60, with reduced
price meals at $.30. Lunch for
grades K-5 will be $.90, and
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Myra l-ovier
Amber Mitchell
Lillie Bush
Terri Cruit
Sharon Forsyth
Mary Grace Dyer
Heba Milhorn
A TRIPLE welcome was ex-
tended to Bob Lancaster,
Stan Dickson and Bill
Moorehead during ribbon
cutting ceremonies by the
front for offices. The part that
was called the ’kitchen* by the
state and federal requirement. Newsoms is picture perfect for the
There is room for an interior exer- food handling and service for the
cise room, and space to drive into jail, Barker added.
the building with a prisoner in the
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Complete Installation Of
Antenna’s, Towers, and Satellites.
vice road to 1-30 In Mount
Vernon. All three
businesses, Lancaster Care
Care Center, Bill’s Tires,
Pawn and Gnn, and
Dickson Used Cars and
Construction, are located In
adjacent buildings and are
open Monday thru Satur-
day. (Optic Photo by Lillie
Bush)
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Regular Bingo ■ 7 p.m.
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Regular Bingo - 3 p.m.
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FRIDAY: Dinner - Dancing 7*10:30 p.m.
SATURDAY: Dancing 8 p.m. * 12 a.m.
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In other business the board:
Accepted an employee health
plan by Blue Cross with a total
monthly premium of $61.25 for
location, off Hwy. 37 North, will the employee and $154.06 for the
be from 1-3 p.m only. employee and family.
r New Owners
Frank & Barbara Manna
Board Settles On Two Percent Hike
By Pat Wright
A two percent increase above
the effective tax rate for 1988 was
agreed to by members of the
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A five-year financial statement
work sheet compiled by ad-
ministrators indicates that the
total tax rate for 1984-85 was
Mount Vernon 1SD Board of $-58, with $.524 of that rate used
Trustees meeting in regular ses-
sion Monday, Aug. 10.
The effective tax rate, the
number which will bring in the
same dollar figure as the district
assessed in taxes last year, was set
for the school district last week at operating fund increased to $.55.
$.92807 by Franklin County Tax for a total rate of $.7423.
Appraiser Ed Morrow. A two per-
cent increase would bring the rate F’
to $.94663. The largest increase 1 IUI1MU1UCB
the district could take without
advertising and conducting public
hearings on the increase is three
percent above the effective tax
rate, or $.9559.
Property owners would feel
more than a two percent hike in
their tax bill however, as the pro-
posed rate is 13 percent mote than
the rate charged last year.
The .94663
from other buildings and houses ed the matter briefly with
in the area. It is a fact that there Franklin County Judge Wayne
will be a new jail and it must be Foster and picked up the State ot
somewhere. Someone is going to Texas Jail Standards book form
be located close to the jail. In fact the judge’s office.
for. years the sheriff actually lived “We would be tickled to death
in the same building right below to look at it,” Judge Foster said
the jail, ” Barker said.
At this point Barker estimates
the county could save between
$200,000 and $1,000,000 in tax good chance for the county Jo
dollars by utilizing his plan.
Barker now has the land and
building under contract and is
working with an architect and
engineer on plans to be presented He said he hopes the commiv
to Commissioner’s Court as soon sioners will at least intially be
as the preliminaries are com- receptive to the idea.
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF
MOUNT VERNON
87 Years of Community Service
Main at Kaufman (214)537-2201 Mount Vernon
Member F D. I. C.
Barker Proposes Meat Plant For Jail
Ron Barker, local contractor, patrol car to load or unload around the building to separate it pleted. Barker said he has discuss-
from other buildings and houses ed t.„ ------- . _
on Tuesday, August 18, at the
Franklin County Building in
provide Winnsboro.
Distribution at the Mount Ver-
ton location -vrll continue to be
Iron 9 am io 4 p.m. in the
building behind the courthouse, at grades 6-12, $1. Reduced lunches
the corner of Jackson and will be $.40. Adult lunches will be
Houston streets. Parking is $1.30.
up from $.72347 to $.74203. The available adjacent to the building
proposed rate would require the , off Jackson Street,
district to use approximately
$27,000 of Sl.OOO.UOO in unein
cumbered funds to run the district
next year.
Editor’s Note: We just let the computers outsmart us last week.
However, the election was covered in the Optic with a banner
headline above the flag on the front page July 23 when absentee
voting began. The story also contained the dates and locations
for the public meetings. A picture in that same issue showed the
meeting on the tax at Hagansport. Sorry Mrs. Roland missed the
earlier articles, and we’re glad she doesn’t own a howitzer.
Distributed
Red Cross Volunteers will
distribute United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture commodities
for all qualified Franklin County
residents Friday, Aug. 14, in the
rate informally building behind Franklin County
adopted by the board (figures Courthouse in Mount Vernon and
would change slightly if the
number is rounded to $.947, fot
example) would
$2,373,622 ,n ?sses<ed taxes from
the $250,744,500 in pn?rerl»
values in the district.
The two percent increase would
be applied to the maintenance
portion of the tax rate, bringing it
Ron Barker, local contractor, patrol car to load or
announced plans Monday morn- without doing so outside,
ing to make a proposal to the the The building was at one time
Franklin County Commissioners USDA approved, Barker in-
Court for the renovation of the dicated, which he said would lend
former Newsom Meat Packing itself to sanitary conditions. Other
house for a county jail. advantages he listed were that
many of the building’s walls are
Barker stated that the plant is a covered with ceramic tiles, there
very logical choice. The building are Boor drains in every room,
is 15,000 sq. ft., more than and most walls are concrete or
enough to house the 30 prisoner masonary construction. All floors
requirement. The layout is well are concrete. There is space at the
suited to separation of the male
and female prisoners, which is a
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the doer of deeds could have done them better.' » |
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the arena; whose face is marred by dust add-
sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs
and comes short again and again; who knows 9*
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spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the <
best, knows in the end the triumph of high
achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails. a(
least fails while daring greatly
Which would you like to believe yourself to b£
and why not give it a try?
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Wright, Pat. Mount Vernon Optic-Herald (Mount Vernon, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 13, 1987, newspaper, August 13, 1987; Mount Vernon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1330417/m1/2/: accessed June 21, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Franklin County Library.