The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 56, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1981 Page: 2 of 10
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PAGE TWO
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JANUARY IS, 1981
m)t Bi0 A Wilbcal Editorials /Opinions
Last week in a Glancing
Around column, mention was
made that there has been no
further progress made in es-
tablishing a care center in
Reagan County. That state-
ment was true, but more can
be added to that statement.
The establishment of a care
center for the elderly in Rea-
gan County is truly a com-
munity project. It is not sole-
ly the responsibility of any
one person, or the hospital
employees, or the doctors of
this town or the Spaceagers
Club, or the board of directors
of the hospital. The estab-
lishment of a care center is a
community-county project
and until that fact is realized,
only then will progress be
made in going through the
process of building, staf-
fing, and maintaining the fa-
cility.
Several columns have been
written by the editor of this
newspaper about the need for
involvement by the people of
the community in this pro-
ject if there is to be a care
center built. There has been
ample time for discussion,
now it is action time.
The elected board of direc-
tors of Reagan Hospital Dis-
trict is one place to start.
They meet each month. Their
meetings are open to the pub-
lic and I have never seen
them do anything other than
graciously welcome con-
cerned local citizens and visi-
tors to their meetings. They
need to be given support on
this project. If the various
clubs or organizations in town
are in support of having a
care center, thty should have
a committee of several per-
sons present at each meeting.
They should tell the hospital
board that they are behind
them 100% on helping build
and mainly staff the care cen-
ter. They should make plans
to become more involved.
Church groups should dis-
cuss the matter of support-
ing a care center in Reagan
County and then make plans
to support such a project.
There are several church
groups in Big Lake that make
it a part of their everyday
business to visit the sick and
they could easily approach
the board to tell the board
they would visit the elderly in
a care center should one be
built. There is plenty of
Christian charity that could
be done here at home.
Study clubs could form
community education com-
mittees on helping staff such
a facility. Scholarship mon-
ey could be raised to help
educate nurses for the care
center and local hospital. I
participated in a project in
which the people of Big Lake
raised $5,000 in one day for a
worthwhile project. It can be
done and I know the people
of Big Lake can do it.
A nursing home-care cen-
ter can be built here in Big
Lake but such a facility is not
just a building. A center is
only as good as the people in
the community want it to be
and the people of Big Lake
must show some genuine
interest. I know the interest
is there, and it is up to those
interested to help with staf-
fing the facility, and showing
the hospital board that the
community is behind thenTon
RCHS Coaches
Several former RCHS coaches at-
tended the 50th Reagan County Bas-
ketball Tournament. L-R they are:
Jack Black, Ralph Havenhill, present
Coach Barry Voss, F. F. Tannery, Ter-
ry Page, Ken Williamson, and Alton
Green. Mr. Tannery was honored by
the coaches and crowd as founder of
the tournament which began in 1929.
this project 100%. 1981 can
be a year of action on this
worthwhile project.
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AUSTIN — One group
wants to raise interests rates.
Another one wants to lower
property taxes.
A year from now maybe
taxpayers will be paying out
bank loans with money they
saved from tax reforms.
Last session one of the
Legislature's bloodiest fights
involved an effort to remove
the 10 percent ceiling on
home mortgage loans. In
days long gone by. when
mortgage rates hobhed
around four percent, the
Legislature prohibited lend-
ing institutions from charg-
ing more than 10 percent
interest. In recent years, in-
flation drove up the rate be-
yond the worst fears of past
lawmakers . . . through the
roof, in fact.
The 10 percent ceiling,
once believed a safeguard,
became a hindrance. Texas
lending institutions had to
borrow federal money be-
tween 12 and 13 percent,
and home mortgage loans
came to a virtual standstill
for a while in the Lone Star
State.
Finally, after multiple
threats flung back and forth,
the Legislature raised the
ceiling to 12 percent. How-
ever, when Congress tem-
porarily suspended all state
ceilings soon after, home
mortgage interests shot up to
17, 18, even over 20 percent.
Voters took it in stride.
Predictions that a vote to re-
move the 10 percent ceiling
would result in doom for
any legislator did not prove
true. The subject was not a
serious issue anywhere in the
state during campaign sea-
son.
Back Again
Now, bankers, credit
unions, finance companies,
retailers and auto dealers
arc announcing they are
joining forces to remove the
new 12 percent ceiling on
interest rates.
A consumer association
has called it “a conspiracy of
lenders to allow an open
season on all borrowers," but
the lenders say they need the
credit opportunities for
businesses in Texas.
Some arc predicting the
issue to be a bloody repeat
of last session's fracas. Then
again, depending on how
lawmakers sense the atti- Pampa legislator Foster
tudes of their voters, they Whaley immediately drew
may not be afraid to ap- fire from black legislators
prove the issue. With the re- and educators for his plan
cent election in mind, anti- to sc|| Prairie View A&M
ceiling lawmakers may have and Texas Southern Uni-
fared far better than pro- versity.
ceiling colleagues.
Property Tax Reduction
Led by John Sharp of Vic-
toria, some seven state
representatives last week
proposed a plan to use a
local option one-ccnt sales
tax hike plus state surplus
lunds to dramatically lower
local property taxes.
The bill would supply an
estimated $300 million a
year in surplus funds to
school districts which in-
crease homestead exemp-
tions, plus it would allow
cities and counties to share
equally in a sales tax in-
crease to compensate for
property tax reductions.
Using 1979 data, Sharp
estimates the bill will reduce
property taxes per home-
stead an average of $70 per
month.
Redistricting Woes
Texas will probably re-
ceive the federal census fig-
ures in time to begin the
redistricting process this ses-
sion, but it may be all for
naught, at least according to
one expert.
Now in the works are sev-
eral lawsuits challenging the
census findings in Northern
cities. If the census figures
are thrown out (probably
sometime after the Legisla-
ture adjourns), then the Tex-
as redistricting plan would
be voided, and the entire
process begun again two
years from now.
Austin attorney Steve
Bickerstaff, a former assis-
tant attorney general under
John Hill, said until the cen-
sus figures arc resolved as
reliable, then any Texas plan
will remain in jeopardy.
Closing Black Colleges
A Panhandle legislator last
week suggested he would in-
troduce a bill to sell two
predominantly black Texas
colleges and use the proceeds
to integrate their students in-
to mostly white colleges.
Whaley said his bill was
designed to end vestiges of
a "separate but equal" sys-
tem. but opponents viewed it
as a way to avoid appropri-
ating an additional $20 mil-
lion to the two colleges as a
means of sidestepping a dis-
crimination lawsuit.
vo of a roll-up-the-sleeves
movement to beat back Re-
publicans in state elections
two years from now. All
Democratic party state offi-
cials were invited.
A Texas cat named Dusty
copped the kitten record
in June, 1952 when she
had her 420th.
Democrat Fundraiser
Texas Democrats planned
a legislature opening-day
fundraiser to pay off over
$100,000 in party debts. It’s
also the official opening sal-
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