The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1970 Page: 7 of 8
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TREASURER'S REPORT
, Report of Mrs. Flora M. McIntyre, County Treasurer of
Reagan County, Texas, of Receipts and Expenditures from
October 1st to December 31st, 1969, inclusive:
JURY FUND
Balance last Report, Filed
Cctober 1st, 1969 ........ $ 1,047.95
To Amount received since last Report 2,940.35
Ey Amount paid out since last
Report, Ex. "A”..............
Amount to Balance ..........
117.00
3,871.30
3,988.30
3,988.30
Ealance ...................
3,871.30
ROAD AND BRIDGE
FUND
Balance last Report, Filed
Cctober 1st, 1969 ..............
To Amount received since last Report
By Amount paid out since last
54,250.07
88,038.76
By Amount transferred to other
Funds, since last Report,
34,530.65
General and Time Deposit ..
Amount to Balance ..........
107,753.18
0
142,288.83
142,288.83
Balance ................... 0
, GENERAL COUNTY FUND
Balance last Report, Filed
October 1st, 1969 ............ 167,042.03
To Amount received since last Report 195,726.53
To Amount transferred from other
Funds, since last Report, Park,
Hospital Maintenance, and
Road and Eridge ............. 117,374.06
By Amount paid out since last
Report, Ex. "C" ................ 33,102.97
By Amount transferred to other
Funds, since last Report,
Time Deposit ................ 150,000.00
Amount to Ealance........ 227,039.65
480,142.62 480,142.62
Balance .................. 297,039.65
HOSPITAL MAINTENANCE FUND
Balance last Report, Filed
October 1st, 1969 .............. 9,127.92
To Amount received since last Report 43,890.35
By Amount paid out since last
Report, Ex. “D” ............... 10,000.00
By Air.ount transferred to other
Funds, since last Report, General 43,018.27
Amount to Balance ............ 0
53,018.27 53,018.27
Balance ................... 0
PARK FUND
Balance last Report, Filed
October 1st, 1969 ............ 5,509.53
To Amount received since last Report 14,674.46
By Amount paid out since last
Report, Ex. “E”.............. 3,585.38
By Amount transferred to other
Funds, since last Report,
General Fund ................. 16,597.61
Amount to Balance .... o
20,183.99 20,183.99
Balance ................... o
LAW LIBRARY FUND
Balance last Report, Filed
October 1st, 1969 .............. 207.74
To Amount received since last Report 47.50
By Amount paid out since last.
Report, Ex. "F”............... 84.50
Amount to Balance ............ 170.74
255.24 255.24
CONTRACTORS’ NOTICE
OF TEXAS HIGHWAY
CONSTRUCTION
Sealed proposals for con-
structing 270.996 miles of
Seal Coat
From Sterling County Line
To: 13.487 Mi. E of Sterling
Co. Line; Fr: W. Side of Aus-
tin St. in Rouen Lee To.
FM1904; Fr: SH 208 To: 1.3
Mi w of SH 208: Fr: Runnels
Co. Line to Inter, of SH 70;
Fr: W Side of Austin St. in
Robert Lee To: SH 208; Fr:
SH 208 to 13 Mi S W of SH
208; Fr: Tom Green Co. Line
To: 3.2 Mi E of US 83; Inter.
SH 163 in Ozona To: 6.1 Mi
E. 15 Mi N of Ozona To: Iri-
on Co. Line; Inter. US 290 in
Ozona To: 15 Ml N of Ozona;
Fr: Garden City To: Reagan
Co. Line; Fr: Crockett Co.
Line To: Barnhart; Fr: 10.9
Mi W of US 83 N of Junc-
tion; Fr: US 83 To: 7.0 Mi
SW of London; Fr: 10.0 Mi N
of US 290 To: US 290; Fr:
Concho Co. Line To: Me-
nard; Fr: US 83 To: McCul-
loch Co. Line; Fr: US 83 to
8.1 Mi E of US 83; Fr: Sch-
leicher Co. Line To: Ft. Mc-
Kavette; Fr: US 83 in Me-
nard To: 2.1 Mi W of Me-
nard; Fr: 1.6 Mi S of US 67
To: the Crockett Co. Line;
Fr: 6.4 Mi SW of Crews To:
Crews; Fr: Nolan Co. Line
To: Coke Co. Line; Fr. 3 Mi
W of Winters To: US 83; Fr;
US 83 To: 5 Mi East; Fr: FM
384 To: Inter. SH 158; Fr:
Wilmeth To: Inter. FM 384:
Fr: FM 1828 To: Irion Co.
Line; Fr: Sutton Co. Line
To: Menard Co. Line; Fr: W
Edge of Sterling City To: 7
Mi NW of Sterling City; Fr:
US 87 in Sterling City To:
9.0 Miles S of Sterling City;
Fr: IH 10 To: 9.4 Mi S; Fr:
FM 388 To: US 67; Fr: 19th
St. in San Angelo To: 4.2 Mi
S of Coke Co. Line; Fr:
Knickerbocker To: US 277;
Fr: Chadbourne St. To: Bell
St. in San Angelo on High-
ways SH 158, Lp 229, FM
1904, US 277, RM 2034, FM
765, US 290, SH 163. RM 33,
US 377, RM 385, US 83, RM
42, RM 1773, RM 864, FM
2092, RM 1676, FM 382, FM
53, FM 383, RM 915, US 87,
RM 1989, Loop 306, SH 208,
FM 2335, and FM 388, cover-
ed by C406-2-17, C406-3-2,
C406-5-1, C407-1-12, C454-5-
3, C2010-1-4. C870-4-26, C-
141-1-17, C412-2-11, C412-3-
18, C558-7-7, C412-1-12, C-
141-9-44, C149-1-9, C829-1-
14, C35-5-30, C825-1-9, C-
1719-1-8, C1846-3-3, C2008-1-
7, C1645-1-6, C158-3-15, C-
407-2-9, C650-3-18, C650-4-
18, C827-1-7, C828-1-8, C-
1644-2-13, C1846-2-3, C69-3-
32, C1648-1 -6, C2227-1-6, C-
264-7-13, C454-2-24, C2228-1-
6, and C2284-1-6 in Coke,
Concho, Crockett, Glasscock,
Irion, Kimble, Menard, Rea-
gan, Runnels, Schleicher,
Sterling, Sutton, and Tom
Green Counties, will be re-
ceived at the Highway De-
partment, Austin, until 9:00
A. M., January 22, 1970, and
then publicly opened and
read.
Plans and specifications
including minimum wage
rates as provided by law are
available at the office of R.
N. Jennings, Resident Engi-
nneer, San Angelo, Texas,
and Texas Highway Depart-
ment, Austin. Usual rights
reserved.
Balance ................... 170.74
LATERAL ROAD FUND
,. Ealance last Report, Filed
Cctober 1st, 1969 .............. 0
By Amount paid out since last
Report, Ex. ”G”................
Amount to Balance ...........
BETTER
READ THE
. WANT ADS
10,480.37
Balance ...................
10,480.67 10,430.67
10,480.67
COMPLETE
INSURANCE
COVERAGE
RECAPITULATION
Jury Fund Balance ................ 3,871.30
Road and Bridge Fund Balance .... 0
General County Fund Balance . .. 297,039.65
Hospital Maintenance Fund Balance 0
Park Fund Balance ................ 0
Law Library Fund Ealance......... 170.74
Lateral Road Fund Balance..... 10,480.67
311,562.36
The State of Texas :
County of Reagan :
Before me, the undersigned authority, on this day per-
sonally appeared Flora M. McIntyre, County Treasurer of
Reagan County, who being by me duly sworn, upon oath,
says that the within and foregoing report is true and cor-
rect.
Flora M. McIntyre, County Treasurer.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this 9 day of Janu-
ary, 1970.
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BY HEARD
The controversy stirred up
over the QUulity T\r nouro
coverage is undoubtedly based
on some validity. But the solu-
tion to the problem perhaps
falls into the category that is
described by the French with
the bon mot “There are some
problems for which there are
no solutions.”
* * *
Perhaps if sometime in the
future robots are perfected to
serve as TV newscasters, the
problem could be solved.
* * *
First of all, it perhaps is well
to recognize that TV is part
news, part show business. It
is hard to imagine that any
newscaster with the perfect
poker face, and with a mono-
tone delivery, could ever at-
tract an audience.
* * *
Thus, if the newscaster
makes the wrong facial ex-
pression, gives an added in-
flection to a particular phrase,
or line, or displays a nervous
tic, or even wears a certain
necktie, there is bound to be
viewers who claim that he is
slanting the news.
* * *
Thus, any idea that the pre-
sentation of news over TV can
achieve perfect objectivity is
the impossible dream.
* * *
There also appears to be one
great fallacy in all this dis-
cussion of TV newscasting.
That is the premise that the
reach of TV is so great that it
lias become the dominant
source of information.
* * *
This does not jibe with the
tremendous buildup in the
huge combined circulation ot
the nation’s newspapers. And
it is quite significant that the
increase in newspaper circula-
tion has practically all taken
place since television.
* * *
Obviously, millions of people
are not buying newspapers to
wrap packages in. Therefore,
more people than ever are
reading the news as it is pre-
sented in cold type without
tlie benefit of the conscious,
or unconscious histrionics that
are a part of TV newscasting.
* * *
What is more important,
practically every newspaper
runs features, columns and
other material giving all sides
of an issue, not to mention cov-
ering the news in much greater
depth than is possible on TV.
* * *
Of course there are critics of
newspaper coverage. In one of
the last public addresses he
ever made the late William
Allen White of Emporia, Kan-
sas explained to a group of
newspaper publishers, why, de-
spite the fact that the over-
whelming majority of the pa-
pers were editorially opposed
to Franklin D. Roosevelt, he
kept getting back into the
White House. The answer, he
felt was quite simple.
* * +
Although editorially the
newspapers opposed FDR, they
never kept him off the front
pages, nor his wife, nor his
children, nor even his little
dog Fala.
* * *
It is quite possible that those
who say American judgments
are shaped by TV are guilty
of selling short the public in-
telligence.
(c) National Federation of Independent Business
The Impossible Dream
The Big Lake (Texas) Wildcat, Thursday, January 15, 1970, Page 7
Taxpayers Ask IRS
This column of questions and answers on federal
lax matters is provided by the local office of the U.S.
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service to taxpayers. The column answers questions
most frequently asked by taxpayers.
Q) I’m a full-time college
student and think I will get a
tax refund, if I don’t have to
count a $750 scholarship as
income. Is it income?
A) Scholarships are gener-
ally not taxable and do not
have to be reported for tax
purposes. Since there are
many different types of schol-
arships, you will want to
check with the organization
that gave you the scholarship
to see if they have informa-
tion on its tax status.
Q) Why did IRS drop the
short form 1040A?
A) One important reason
was to make it easier for tax-
payers to claim all the cred-
its, deductions and exclusions
they were entitled to under
the tax laws. In recent years
more and more taxpayers
have found it to their advan-
tage to itemize deductions as
their income increased.
The new Form 1040 is one
basic page and actually calls
for just about the same in-
formation that had to he en
tered on the front and hack
of the old card form. Over 30
million returns will need just
the one-page Form 1040 to be
complete, while another 22
million will have to attach
only one additional schedule.
Copies of the schedules
taxpayers will most likely
need were included in the tax
package mailed to some 75
million taxpayers.
Q) I got married in Decem-
ber. Can my wife and I file a
joint return for 1969?
A) Yes, if you are married
on the last day of your tax
year, you can file a joint re-
turn. Your wife then cannot
he claimed as a dependent on
the return of another tax-
payer.
Q) Does the new tax form
make any difference in the way
a farmer handles his credit for
gas used on the farm?
A) No, the gas tax credit
should he claimed as it has in
the past by attaching Form
4136. The amount of credit
claimed should he entered on
1 in*- 21 of Form 1040.
Q) What is the surcharge
rate for 1969 and how do you
figure it?
A) The income tax sur-
charge is 10 percent for 1969.
Tax surcharge tables are in-
cluded in the tax packages
and can he found on page T-
1. These tables show the
amount of surcharge based on
the amount of tax liability
and your filing status.
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the tax computation schedule,
will be just a worksheet for
most taxpayers and need not
be sent in with the Form 1040.
Only if the taxpayer claims a
special credit such as retire-
ment income, investment or
foreign tax, or has to pay self-
employment tax, should Sched-
ule T be sent in with the re-
turn.
Q) I rent out some land to a
farmer nearby. Do I include
the rents I receive as farm or
rental income?
A) Enter the rents you re-
ceive from your land on
Schedule E, as rental income,
and attach it to your Form
1040 when you file.
Unless there is material
participation in the business
of farming, the rents you re-
ceive are not considered farm
income.
Q) Are there any tax bene-
fits for those 65 and over? I’ll
be able to file that way this
year.
A) Yes, there are several
benefits for those 65 years of
age and over. For example,
there is an extra $600 exemp-
tion for age, and special pro-
visions covering the sale of a
personal residence.
These are explained in Pub-
lication 554, Tax Benefits for
Older Americans. Send a post
card to your District Director
for a free copy.
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