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June 16, 1983. The Nocona New*, Nocona, Texas, Page 3
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to reinstate the Texas Employ
ment Commission, and yet we
heard nothing about the threat
from our representative."
"The legislature, especially yhe
House, where taxes originate, did
little to investigate modest in-
creases in such fees preferring in-
stead to leave highways, teacher*
and even higher education under-
funded,” he continued.
‘ It is for these reasons, and for
my deep concerns for the people of
the 80th district, that I declare my
candidacy for representative of the
80th district of north central
Texas.
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Beside* serving on the Holliday
School Board since 1977, and is a
past president of the board,
Causey is President of the local
Boy Scout District and a past
member of the Archer County
Cancer Committee.
He served in the U.S. Army un-
til 1973 and is currently a captain
in the U.S. Army Reserve.
Causey described the Texas
Legislature’s recent performance
as “disappointing.
"I’m concerned that the session
did little for the citizens of Texas
and the people of the 80th district
in north central Texas," he ex-
plained.
"School districts were left in
desperate straights because the
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week’s murder trial of Debbie
Hanson.
Mrs. Hanson, presently of Per-
ryton but formerly of Bowie, was
accused of causing the death of her
five-year-old step-son.
After two days of jury selection,
visitors to the courthouse found
signs posted on the upstairs lan-
dings warning "No Cameras
Allowed on Second Floor.”
Dist. Judge Frank Douthitt
issued the order last week after a
television broadcast of film, shot
from outside the courtroom
through the glass doors, showing
Dist. Atty. Jack McGaughey
reading the indictment to the jury
panel.
Judge Douthitt had explained
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A bomb threat last Friday at
Nocona Athletic Goods has
brought out the offer of a reward
for information leading to the ar-
rest and indictment of the
perpetrators.
At 8:35 a.m. Friday, someone
phoned a bomb threat into the fac-
tory office.
Anyone having any information
about the phone threat should call
825-6570. Tips can be kept
anonymous.
legislature tailed to update for-
mula funding; ahd yet there was
no voice in Austin helping our
cause or telling us of the potential
impact upon property taxes.
"Farmers were left without a
water plan, and yet again there
was no voice ready to sacrifice for
them.
"Farmers and all those con-
nected with agri-business were
threatened when the legislature
failed to institute a brucellosis pro-
gram, and again there was no loud
voice for the cause.
"Businessmen could lose
millions since the legislature failed
prior to the trial he did not object
to pictures being taken in the foyer
of the courtroom or outside the
courthouse.
"But the Canons of Ethics did
not allow for pictures to be taken
during the trial, even through the
glass.” Douthitt explained. “And
while I might not agree with them,
I have to enforce it."
As a result, all cameras — still
and television — were barred from
the second floor of the courthouse
for the remainder of the six day
trial which resulted in Mrs. Han-
son’s conviction for murder.
“I’ll fix the problem," the
judge said, saying he was going to
have curtains hung inside all of the
glass doors. He may also issue
written rules of procedure concer-
ning the use of cameras in and
around the 97th District Cour-
troom.
large amount of money for more
prisons,” Farabee said.
Instead, money was funneled
into other criminal justice reform
areas: probation, board of pardons
and paroles and restitution
centers.
The latter is a new project in
Texas, one that has had some suc-
cess in other states.
Under the restitution center
program, felons would work in the
community and spend the nights
in minimum security lock ups.
“Where they go to spend the
night, are constantly checked to
see if they are on drugs or alcoholo
but they work to pay back their
debts to their victims," the senator
explained.
Teacher salary funding was
hung up in the House, despite a
number of alternate funding pro-
posals from Gov. Mark White, Lt.
Gov. Bill Hobby and St. Comp-
troller Bob Bullock.
“When it’s all said and down,
any new taxes must start in the
House — and the House simply
wasn’t of a mind to do so," the
senator explained.
Farabee sees the need for
boosting state mandated teachers
salaries, but he foresees something
in the 16% pay raise over two
years rather than White’s promis-
ed 24% pay raise.
Additionally, the senator noted,
“We need some form of incentives
or merit raises."
As a result, he would not be sur-
prised to see a bill which would
provide a base raise for all teachers
plus an additional amount alloted
to the individual school districts to
be distributed as merit raises.
The senator expects to see the
Texas Employment Commission
recreated. The same with a
brucellosis bill since the cattle in-
dustry as major portion of Texas’
economy.
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district in Austin, and their
answer was no.
"Ask yourself the same ques-
tion."
"The answer leads me to
wonder if it hasn‛ t been our fault
that term after term we should
have been working for solid and
constantly improving legislativ e
representation," Causey said in
prepared announcement.
A graduate of Seymour High
School and Abilene Christian
University (B.S.E. in government
and M .S.E. in supervision). He is
a doctoral candidae at North
Texas State University scheduled
for a Spring 1984 graduation.
Causey was teacher for a number
of years.
By Tracy Mesler
While the Texas Legislature ac-
complished much during its most
recent regular session, a number
of key issues were still left
unresolved, reported St. Sen. Ray
Farabee.
The Wichita Falls Democrat
was the guest speaker Tuesday for
a joint meeting of the Nocona
Lions and Rotary Clubs at
Nocona Community Center.
Among the items not resolved,
he reported, were some highly
controversial ones:
— Teacher salary funding.
— A new statewide brucellosis
campaign.
— Renewal of the Texas
Employment Commission.
But while those were the most
pronounced ’failures’ of the
Legislature, there were a number
of successes Farabee was equally
quick to point out:
-The passage of a $30 2
billion, balanced budget. A budget
passed despite declining oil and
gas revenues and a "slumping
economy.”
— A narrowing of the insanity
defense.
— A strengthening of the state’s
driving while intoxicated laws.
— Passage of a Public Utility
Commission bill which would help,
make further control cost pass-
throughs of public utilities.
— A new mental health code.
— A forced reduction in the in-
terest rates charged on credit
cards.
"For the first time in a number
of years, we did not authorize a
WICHITA FALLS - It has
not taken long for St. Rep.
Charles Finnell (D-Holliday) to
draw yet another opponent — for
the elections in 1984.
Durhl M. Caussey, a Holliday
insurance salesman and former
president of the Holliday School
Board, formally announced his
candidate for the 80th District seat
in the Texas House of Represen-
tatives.
In seeking to unseat the senior
state representative, Causey, 36,
pointed to Finnell’s ineffectiveness
in presenting the 80th District’s
case to the Texas Legislature.
"I’ve asked my friends if they
have received prompt response
from their representative from this
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Mesler, Tracy R. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1983, newspaper, June 16, 1983; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1493902/m1/3/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.