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CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO . TEXAS
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CANADIAN. HEMPHILL CO TEXAS
THURSDAY 30 DECEMBER 1976
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views expressed are the editors', unless noted
Fair and equal
I From The Haves County Citizen |
THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION requires that property values determined by a county appraisal
propertx taxes be fair, equal and uniform. office. That's fine, as it would eliminate the
Thev aren't. possibility of a house being appraised differently
Last February, on appointing a committee to do by the school district and the county.
something about taxes. Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby and But the committee worries that doing the
House Speaker Bill Clayton said: "We strongly logical thing and requiring 100 per cent
I'eel that the time has come for legislative reform assessments statewide would foredoom the
of our antiquated property tax system. Current revision effort. Taxpayers, i'eveto said, fear 100
property tax laws are unfair, unintelligible, and |kt cent assessments would mean higher taxes,
not uniformly applied around the state." Only if people let them mean that. On the
How true. There are more than 3.000 taxing contrary. 100 per cent assessments would mean
units in the state. Many of them overlap. an instant reduction in tax rates, unless the tax
Now. the Property Tax Stmdy Committee of the men would rather face tarring and feathering.
Legislative Council has drafted a complete The way it is now, a Uixing authority can't tax
rev ision of the tax statutes. As described by Rep. at the top constitutional rate against a small
\Va>ne Peveto of Orange, his committee has hit [>ercentage of the actual property value. And the
on the answer to property tax confusion: A taxing unit can increase the assessment ratio
s\stem of uniform appraisals, with one assessing willv nillv and thereby increase taxes.
lUthority for each county, bi.sed on 100 per cent If the law required assessing at 100 per cent of
fair market value. fair market value, the local taxing authority
But the committee is afraid of the 100 per cent would have to face up to the people any time it
'air market value concept and is not going to wanted to increase the tax rate. That's the way it
■••commend it. The draft revision will recommend should be.
it. The draft revision will recommend requiring Peveto's committee should be fighting for. not
cities and school districts to use the taxable dodging, the basic' reform.
Trading at home
| From The Perry ton Herald]
LAST WEEK THERE WAS an announcement and services found in Amarillo. But we are
from Amarillo about a new shopping center large enough to take care of most customer needs
and the folks in Amarillo hailed this as a step iru' l^e more sales that local stores make the
forward. Merchants in other Panhandle towns Iwtter able they will be to support community
take a different view, of course, because they are activities that they are called upon to do during
not interested in "establishing Amarillo as a l^e year.
regional shopping center." Trade at home campaigns seldom work when
Merchants here and in other towns need to aimed at loyalty for home town merchants. Trade
\eep in mind that their biggest competition comes at home campaigns will work when backed by real
iot from the fellow down the street, but the one in effort on the part of local merchants to take care
the next largest city. Of course, in Perryton, we "f their customers with the same enthusiasm that
are not large enough to support the wide range of their big city competitors do.
About locked doors
(Speedy Nieman in The Herford Brand I
¥ DON T MUCH like locked doors. And, the sign of the times that most of us have to unlock
A friendly folks of the Panhandle and South our doors even to allow friends and loved ones to
Plains have never cared much for them, either. A enter.
familiar slogan of the old West was "the latch But when you find yourself locked out of
string is always out.' That phrase was repeated some place you want to be. it's not good. It is sad
many years after a latch string was no longer in to knock on a door when no one is home, but it is
us^ _ t sadder, still, to knock on the door of a house that
We still say, Y 11 come to see us", when we chat is not empty and get no answer.
with friends and acquaintances. However, it is a We do that with each other, you know. The
_ doors are invisible, but they block the way into
C/fie Canadian TyEC^ORTj another's heart, another's life. Even though pain
^ comes to those who close those "doors", it still
Canadian (Heaapfcfl] Texas happens.
BENEZZELL Editor It reduces my joy, now. to know that I have
NANCY EZZELL -Editor of Women's Pages kept some doors closed—often without knowing
WANDA CLARK Advertising Manager it—and, perhaps, when one of my sons was
knocking.
Entered as second class matter December 20, In a way, this is a Christmas thought. I guess.
1945, at the Post Office at Canadian, Texas, under The Christmas story has to do with opening doors
the Aet of March 3, 1879. Published each and finding peace and good will. It is a time when
Thursday afternoon at Canadian. Texas, by Ben we can hope for better luck in opening the doors
R and Nancy M. EnelL we cannot see.
Christmas holidays are wonderful, but a lon^r,
indicated. Going to work on the Monday mornm??' ~
holiday week-end is hard on the body but h
soul...neither it. really in condition to cope with .*1
mundane problems which were put on the shelf on rv S
And there is the grim realization that it's Ko,nKtobe?0n
a few day* with th. Now Year .,.k ..,,,1 *«'
another grim Monday is just a nip of the calendar awav
In another thousand years or so. when calendar n(J
undertaken again, somebody ought to make a note of the Z
doing something about that lost week between Christnus^TJ
New Year's Day. Maybe the way to do it would be to simpl, ^
it...to officially end the year on Christmas Kve, and beraiJT
on January 2. and leave eight blank squares on the calendaru 1
to be left in limbo, as it were...days on which nothing uj|
required to happen. Wouldn't that be neat!
But until that far away millemurn. which none of us is !ikelvi |
around to see. we'll just have to far,- up to the ^im reality a«
back to work...take that inventory, pa;, those taxes, tote that
There are plans in the mill, down Austin way, to create a r
honest-to-goodness Presidential Primary election for Tew•
permanent basis before the next national elections roll araad
I9H0. State Reps. Sarah Weddington iAustin], Luther Joaesf
I'asoj and l.ance l-alor ! Houston; haw pre filed a bill for the i
Texas Legislature which would allow Texans to vote dimthj
presidential candidates {instead of for pledged or un-f
delegates, as last timej. The bill would allocate delegate treagtk|
candidates in proportion to their share of the state wide |
vote.
The one time special presidenti.> preference primary z i«|
which was designed specifically to .-hanne: 'lexas deletaie5trnj
t< I.loyd Bentsen (and backfired w ?.. r. Jimmy ( arter wmall
marbles instead) died an un lamented death after the primaries lj
spring. But the idea of having a real '."ice in selecting presto
nominees turned out to Im- mighty popular with Texa* voters.!
had never had a taste of that sort o! :h:r; r before...so what pro'irfl
In- a mighty fortuitous political accident may result sr. T«q
otersa genuine voice in national presidential politics in ..W fwl
We hope so. The proposed Presidential Primary bill is s*t|
have tough sledding in the upcoming legislature, and will aed|
the support individual Texas voters can give it. Texas f
unless they have had a sudden change ol heart, are not tie ' I
grant political powers to the people...and the mogukj"1|
Democratic and Republican parties in Texts arent uMJI
relinquish their control over the political selection protests
can help it. But the Presidential Primary in Texas is an ideal
time has come, and unless we let it die a-borning. it a* j
established as law this year. Get behind and pus .
Hard as it may be to comprehend. lexans could do aid
than giving Dolph Briscoe another four year term in
when the 1978 elections roll around. Dolph is °^' ;5 llU|e
as eager as he's likely to be about any thing...an e 1S first t1?
to set any woods afire in a third term as he as in ^
There's a lot to be said for a do nothing Governor, an
At least two contenders are waiting impsUenUy n *
announce for Dolph Briscoe's job, and t o ^
General John Hill and Comptroller Bob BuHoA *
do-something types. Either of them, given t e po
.1 the Govinwr'. .Mice. roM Ik «"■ '«' 00
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Ezzell, Ben. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 53, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 30, 1976, newspaper, December 30, 1976; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth136469/m1/2/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.