The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 26, 1981 Page: 1 of 14
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The Hereford School Board
made it official Tuesday
night. Your taxes are going to
be increased by 7.69 percent
for the 1981-82 school year.
The tax hike proposal had
been announced Aug. 11 and a
public hearing was held last
week. Last night's special
meeting, held for the purpose
of adopting the tax rate,
lasted just seven minutes.
The local tax rate will rise
from 78 cents to 84 cents per
$100 valuation. A breakdown
shows 72 cents going to the
operating and maintenance
fund and 12 cents tabbed for
the interest and sinking fund.
The board voted to increase
the tax rate in order to help
cover an $8.4 million budget
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Efforts to repeal the state
property tax and to provide
college construction funds
failed during the 67th
Legislature’s regular and
special sessions this year.
The 1983 Legislature will
By OWEN ULLMANN
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -
The Reagan administration
and private economists are
sticking to their predictions
p.m.
uple
percent a month for a full
year, the inflation rate would
be about 15 percent.
House prices, which had
declined earlier this year,
climbed 1.8 percent, the
William Thacker, Jr., a
Wichita Falls attorney and a
regent at Midwestern Univer-
sity in Wichita Falls, said last
week the trial was being
delayed by mutual agree-
ment between the university
and the state attorney
general.
Midwestern has filed the
suit to reinstate the tax,
challenging a 1979 legislative
act which reduced the state
property tax from 10-cents
per $100 valuation to .0001
percent.
Thacker said the postpone-
ment will allow plantiffs time
to decide if tax assessor-
collectors in Texas' 254 coun-
ties should be added as defen-
dants in the case. "The state
has contended in its pleadings
that the county tax assessor-
collectors had the respon-
sibility to collect the tax and
therefore should be parties to
the suit," he said.
He added that Midwestern
has three choices in the mat-
ter. It can make the 254 tax
assessor-collectors part of
the law suit, “or it can meet
the challenge that they are
not necessary to the suit in
written pleadings or go ahead
with the lawsuit and argue
the matter in court.”
for 1981 despite a surge in
consumer prices in July.
Led by soaring housing
costa, prices last month rose
at a 15.2 percent annual rate,
the highest in more than a
year. But most economists
called the increase a tem-
porary phenomenon.
Jerry L. Jordan, a member
of President Reagan's Coun-
cil of Economic Advisers,
July, the largest drop since
April 1979, the government
said. During the past 12 mon-
ths, a worker's buying power
has shrunk 2.9 percent.
Most economists said
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The university contends
that the 1979 legislative act
reducing the property tax is
unconstitutional because it
violates a provision of the
state constitution that says
the levy must be 10 cents.
The 1979 act said future
'funds for construction would
come from general revenue
funds. However, Texas At-
torney General Mark White
later ruled that general
revenue could not be used as
long as a means for providing
construction funds was in the
constitution.
vegetables, natural gas and
(See RATE, Page 2)
depth with ring particles had
yet to be determined, but
Wood said, “We know at least
it wasn't a strong hit since
Voyager passed from behind
Saturn.
village of Catequero after
“violet fighting with our
troops." The second column,
supported by air attacks, bat-
tled Angolan troops in the
town of Xangongo, 62 miles
north of the border, the com-
munique said.
A later dispatch said eight
South African fighter-
bombers destroyed the
villages of Cahama, 90 miles
north of the broder, and
Tchibemba, 125 miles north
of the border, “in an attempt
to open the northern route.”
A BBC correspondent in
Luanda, the Angolan capital,
said the South African air
force bombed two towns 250
miles north of the border on
Sunday
President Dos Santos in a
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periodic large-scale opera-
tions against Angolan bases
of the guerrillas trying to
loosen South Africa’s hold on
South-West Africa.
a communique from the
Angolan Defense Ministry
reported "violent fighting"
but did not say if any of the
estimated 20,000 Cuban
troops in Angola were involv-
ed.
The communique, reported
by the angolan news agency
Angop, said two South
African armored columns
totaling 32 tanks and 12 other
vehicles crossed the border
between Angola and South-
West Africa Monday morn-
ing.
It said one column advanc-
ed 93 miles and occupied the
Unfair
By BOB NIGH
Managing Editor
Austin - Arguments over a
civil suit originally scheduled
to be heard Monday concern-
ing the reinstatement of the
10-cent state property tax
which has been used to
finance new construction at
17 state colleges and univer-
sities that are not included in
the University of Texas and
Texas A&M systems have
been postponed at least until
October.
year. The ‘Faces will find out how far they’ve
progressed when they tangle with Clovis in a
scrimmage Thursday night. (Brand Photo by
We've never seen so many farmers with broad smiles on
their faces. We enjoyed a barbecue lunch at the county crops
tour yesterday, and heard a lot of glowing crop reports.
Many farmers add an "if” to the prospects, meaning no
hail or damaging weather before harvest time.
Texas Ag Commissioner Reagan Brown, a speaker at the
luncheon, was impressed with the crops in this area, as was
one of his aides. Ernesto DeLeon, export marketing chief,
said he had never seen "more beautiful corn crops.”
Brown is a great story-teller. He told the group yesterday
about the preacher who stood up at the pulpit one Sunday
morning and announced that the One who had called him to
that church had now called for him to move on. The con-
gregation rose and sang, "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
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We’ve heard nothing but glowing reports on the big
Hereford Town & Country Jubilee. It didn't just happen;
much planning and work went into the celebration. Many in-
dividuals and organizations contributed to the success of the
event, but the Jubilee steering committee deserves much
credit.
We commend Argen Draper, Garth Thomas and all the
members of the steering committee for a job well done!
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While on the subject of the Jubilee, we'd like to add a P.S.
to the article about the winners of the Texas Women Western
Artists exhibit over the weekend. Viewers of the exhibit were
asked to select the most popular piece of art in the show, and
local artist Jean Lyles took the honor with her painting, "The
Old Homestead."
That feller on Tierra Blanca Creek says the honeymoon is
over when he calls home that he’ll be working late, but she's
already left a note that supper is in the refrigerator.
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It is fair to judge people and stained-glass windows only in
their best light.-William A. Ward
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Speaker
Reagan Brown, Texas Ag Commissioner, was in Deaf Smith County Tues-
day, speaking briefly at a barbecue luncheon held in conjunction with the
annual county crops tour sponsored by the Texas Agricultural Extension
Service. Brown discussed various farm problems in his address at the
Jimmy Christie farm north of Summerfield. See related story on Page 9.
exaggerated the way housing
costs are measured. Jordan
said the administration is still
"right on track” in its predic-
tion that inflation will rise 9.9
percent this year.
In recent months, when in-
flation fell well below a 10
percent pace, administration
economists warned that
prices were bound to show
large, temporary jumps, too,
but that the general trend
would be a gradual easing of
inflation.
Inflation has risen at a 9.4
percent annual rate through
the first seven months of 1981.
Last year, prices rose 12.4
percent.
According to the Labor
Department's Bureau of
Labor Statistics, consumer
prices in July rose 1.2 per-
cent, the largest monthly in-
crease since March 1960 and
the first time in five months
that inflation advanced at a
double-digit pace.
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Total local funds is
estimated at $2,670,140. An
additional $5,790,675 is an-
ticipated in revenues from
state funds. The new budget
is based on a tax base of
$374,350,000.
Supt. Harrell Holder gave a
brief enrollment report at the
meeting Tuesday night. Total
enrollment for the first day of
school was 4,920. This com-
pares with 5,071 on the first
day last year - a difference of
151 students.
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Rough Going
The JV offense found the going rough against
the herd first unit defense Tuesday afternoon
during practice. A solid defensive front wall is
expected to help make the Whitefaces a prime
contender for the District 4-5A grid title this
first time since Israel's
devastating air strikes in
Iraq and Lebanon, the two
leaders held each other at
arm’s length in contrast to
the hugs, smiles and joking
comaraderie of their
previous meetings.
Begin sought Sadat's
agreement to resume the
deadlocked talks on
autonomy for the Palesti-
nians of the occupied West
Bank and Gaza Strip, which
the Egyptian president
suspended last summer.
The prime minister also
contends that Egypt is lagg-
ing on the process of nor-
malizing relations with Israel
is accordance with the Camp
David peace treaty. He wants
this speeded up, with im-
plementation of cultural and
economic agreements as the
first step.
Egyptian sources said
Sadat was asking Begin to
“show the world, by some
sort of act,” that Israel is
(See SUMMIT, Page 2)
As it raced away from
Saturn today, the one-ton
robot explorer began a five-
year journey to distant
Uranus, a world never before
seen up close. Until the ship
arrives in January 1966, no
other world will unravel
before an American
spacecraft. Voyager is then
headed for a 1989 tour of Nep-
tune.
The encounter left scien-
tists overwhelmed by a flood
of dates and pictures of sights
no human had ever seen from
the exotic planet. "The closer
we look, the more puzzling
things are," said chief scien-
tist Edward Stone.
At the moment of its closest
approach to Saturn, Voyager
darted by at $54,000 mph and
wasn’t looking at the rolling
clouds of gold, brown and
other soft hues. Its television
eyes were closed as the ship
rolled itself into a new posi-
tion for more experiments.
Just 36 minutes after dar-
(See VOYAGER, Page 2)
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LISBON, Portugal (AP) -
Angola charged South
African invaders advanced
nearly 100 into its territory
while South African planes
destroyed two villages as the
prelude to occupying part of
southern Angola.
Angolan President Eduar-
do dos Santos appealed to the
United Nations to "neutralize
the imminent and large-scale
invasion." The Angolan
Defense Ministry ordered all
officers, soldiers, sailors and
reservists to report to their
units within 48 hours.
The South African govern-
ment refused to confirm or
deny the Angolan report. But
a military spokesman in-
dicated South African forces
were carrying out one of their
government began collecting distorted by the large jump in
records in 1953. Mortgage in- home-buying costs. If house
terest rates — which are run- prices and mortgage rates
ning at record levels — ad- were taken out, consumer
vanced 1.3 percent Overall prices would have risen at a
housing costs, including rent, 10 percent annual cSc, the
maintenance, utilities and economists said.
home furnishings, were up 1.6 Even so, a broad spectrum
percent, the largest rise since of other prices registered
June 1980. their largest gains of the
As a result of the infla- year. Large rises were
tionary surge, the buying reported for meat, fruits and
and assessed at full market
value, would raise enormous
amounts of money and would
place yet another burden on
an already strained property
tax structure.”
message to U.N. Secretary- Fred Fox, Deaf Smith
General Kurt Waldheim said County Tax Appraisal
South Africa had massed District Chief Appraiser,
45,000 troops in South-West reports that the passage of
Africa “whose objective is the resolution for 3 cents per
the occupation of part of the 1100 valuation would make a
sovereign territory of big difference in the amount
Angola" paid to the construction fund
He warned that “the situa- by Deaf Smith County.
tion is grave and it could According to Fox, the coun-
develop into a war with un- ty paid $98,200 into the fund in
predictable consequences " 1979 under the 10-cent figure
A South African military based upon 24 percent valua-
spokesman, Maj. Gen Uon In 1980, the year after
Charles Lloyd, said only that the tax rate was lowered
South Africa was continuing from 10 cents to :0001, the
operations against the guer- county paid only M1.
rillas of the South-West Under the current tax base
Africa People's Organiratinn of around $406 million, the
or SWAPO, who raid their county would pay $123,000 in-
homeland from bases in to the fund under the 3-cent
M A... method based on 100 percent
(Se ANGOLA, Page 2) valuation.
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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) -
Mechanical trouble aboard
Voyager 2, perhaps caused by
a collision with particles from
Saturn's rings, interrupted
the flow of stunning and
revealing photographs from
the planet today, but scien-
tists said the mission was still
a "high-percentage success."
A platform carrying
Voyager’s cameras ap-
parently got stuck, limiting
the cameras' aim, and pro-
ject controllers could not ful-
ly analyze the problems until
they receive crucial tape .
recordings at mid-morning, a
spokesman said.
Controllers noticed the pro-
blem shortly after 2 a.m.
EDT as soon as radio signals
with the craft were reac-
quired once Voyager passed
from behind Saturn as seen
from earth, project
spokesman Alan Wood said.
Scientists had said that
passing through Saturn's
rings posed a danger of colli- 1
sion for Voyager with ring
particles. A pathfinder '
spaceship. Pioneer 11, follow-
ed the same route safely in
1979 and scientists were confi-
dent Voyager would make it
too.
Whether Voyager did in-
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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt
(AP) - President Anwar
Sadat and Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin
are close to agreeing to set
their differences aside and
resume the Palestinian
autonomy negotiations,
diplomatic sources from both
countries said today.
The sources, who asked not
to be identified, said the two
leaders believe it would be
better to discuss their dif-
ferences after the deadlocked
talks get underway again.
The sources were not able
to say whether the two
leaders would announce some
form of agreement during a
joint press conference at the
president's summer home
scheduled for later today.
Egyptian sources said earlier
that any agreements reached
at the two-day summit pro-
bably would not be announc-
ed until after Begin meets
with President Reagan in
Washington next month.
Meeting Tuesday for the
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for the school district for
1981-82. That budget includes
some $3.7 million for teacher
payroll and $441,000 for
school district ad-
ministrators.
issue again.
The property tax issue is
one with which Deaf Smith
County Judge Glen Nelson is
well acquainted. Nelson is a
strong opponent to
reinstating the tax.
"Property taxes are the on-
ly way we have of financing
our local government, and I
don’t like to see the state try-
ing to take more of it and
force us to raise taxes in
order to run our counties,"
Nelson said. "I know they
need some support, but they
need to bite the bullet some
too.”
Nelson is joining other
county officials across the
state in opposition to Senate
Joint Resolution 4 which was
considered by the Senate
Finance Committee during
the Legislature’s sessions.
The resolution would sub-
mit to the state’s voters a pro-
posed constitutional ■amend-
ment to reduce the 10-cent
state ad valorem tax to 3
cents per $100 valuation and
forgive the non-payment of
the 10-cent tax in 1980 and
1981.
According to Sam E.
Clonts, Executive Director of
the Texas Association of
Counties, "Such a state pro-
perty tax, when applied to
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Nigh, Bob. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 40, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 26, 1981, newspaper, August 26, 1981; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1429985/m1/1/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.