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THURSDAY 16 IANUARY 1997
coming
events
List events in this
calendar by calling the
Chamber of
Commerce, 323-6234,
weekdays.
Thursday, January 16
• CaDa, 7 p.m. Courthouse base-
ment
Friday, January 17
• High School, Middle School Region
Band Clinic. WTAMU
• Lions Club, 12 noon, Fire Hall
• JV & Varsity B&G Sunray, 5 p.m.
Saturday, January 18
• All-Region Band Concert, Canyon
• Chamber Board retreat 10 a.m.
Sunday,January 19
• First Baptist Church, Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship, 11:00 a.m. Training Union,
6:00 p.m., Evening Worship, 7:00
p.m.
• Central Baptist Church Sunday
School 10 a.m„ Morning Worship
11 a.m.. Evening Worship 6 p.m.
• Sacred Heart Catholic Church,
Sunday Mass, 9 a.m., CCD Classes
10 a.m.
• Believer's Covenant Sunday Wor-
ship, 10:30 a.m.
• First United Methodist Church,
Early Worship Service 8:30 a.m.,
Sunday School 9:30 a.m., Morning
Worship 10:30 a.m., Evening
Worship 6:30 p.m.
Assembly of God Christian Educa-
tion 10 a.m.. Evening Worship,
6:30 p.m.
• Pentecostal Church, Sunday
School, 10 a.m., Morning Worship
11 a.m., Evening Worship 7 p.m.
• First Christian Church, Sunday
School 9:30 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship 10:30 a.m., Evening Worship 6
p.m.
• First Presbyterian Church Sunday
School 9:45 a.m., Worship Service
11 a.m.
• Church of Christ. Sunday Bible
Class 9:30 a.m., Morning Worship
10:30 a.m., Evening Worship 6
p.m. Wednesday Bible Class, 7
p.m.
Monday, January 20
• 7&8 Boys Basketball against Boys
Ranch, 5 p.m., boys there, girls
here
■ 7&8 Girls BB at Spearman, there, 5
p.m.
• Alcoholics Anonymous & Al-Anon,
8 p.m., Courthouse Basement
Tuesday, January 21
• Rotary Club 12 noon, WCTU Bldg.
■ JV & Varsity B&G against Stratford,
CMS & CHS Gym, 5 p.m.
Wednesday, January 22
• Driver’s Ucense exams, 9 a.m.-4
p.m., Courthouse Basement
• Panhandle Area Transit, 10 a.m. -
3 p.m. Contact County judge's of-
fice for details.
■ Chamber breakfast, 6:45 a.m.
Methodist Fellowship Hall, $5.
Program on Area Job Market by
Myron McCartor of Perryton
• Sagebrush Painters, 10 a.m., Fire
Hall
Thursday, January 23
• Junior Livestock Show weigh-in
Friday, January 24
- Livestock Show Friday evening and
all day Saturday. Sale Saturday eve-
ning
SERVICES
■ Tralee Crisis Center for Women,
call toll-free 1-800658-2796,
Pampa.
• Sharing is Caring food pantry and
clothing closet. Saturdays 9 a.m. -
I p.m., 1st & Elsie. Donations
through local churches or directly.
• Planned Parenthood, 419 Main
12;30-5;30 weekdays, except
Thursday, 323-5732.
• Panhandle Transit, rural transpor-
tation services. Call collect, 24
hours in advance of need, 862-
4131.
National Phone line to report Child
Abuse: I -800-4-A-CHILD (or I-
800-422-4453).
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Texas taxes and the White House
By Louis DuBose in The Texas Observer
The crude political dynamics of the tax-reform fight
about to consume the 75th Legislature are easy to
understand. If Governor Bush prevails, he can run
for governor in 1988 and the Republican presiden-
tial nomination in 2000 — claiming to have re-
formed the state’s burdensome tax system and
lowered taxes at the same time. If Bush’s tax reform
initiative fails, Democratic Comptroller John
Sharp, whose office is expected to provide the num-
bers by which Bush will fix the tax system and who
is also interested in running for governor in 1988,
wins.
I IEUTENANT GOVERNOR BOB BULLOCK,
h presiding over the first Republican Senate since
reconstruction, doesn’t believe there is a property tax
crisis and coyly asks why he is expected to sell the
Governor’s proposal to a Republican Senate major-
ity. House Speaker Pete Laney, who was enraged in
mid-November when Bush failed to consult him be-
fore publicly promising a billion dollars from surplus
funds for tax relief — and is still angry because
Republicans went out of their way to recruit a chal-
lenger for him in the last election — lacks enthusiasm
for the issue and says he’s more concerned that the
State of Texas is about to put eighty-year-olds out on
the street because of new welfare funding formulas.
Many legislators don’t like the Governor’s package
because if it passes he gets the credit, and if it fails
they get the blame. The legislation must be passed
early, because the entire budget process will be put
on hold until it is complete. Several tax-reform com-
ponents are constitutional amendments, which re-
quire a two-thirds majority in both houses. Whatever
passes is certain to result in a court challenge. And
House Public Education Committee Chair Paul
Sadler warns that even a slight change in property
tax rates will drastically alter the delicate (Supreme-
Court-mandated) equations that equalize school
funding. It’s that simple.
The only reason legislators are not already ex-
tending their Austin condo leases through August, in
anticipation of a special session that would follow the
May adjournment of the regular session, is that a
special session on school taxes would also be a special
session on the budget. Democratic State Party Chair
Bill White doesn’t think the Governor has the back-
bone (or the cartilage) for a special session that would
hold the state’s budget hostage. “I predict he’ll get
weak at the knees,” White has said of the Governor
on several occasions.
Recent statements by Bullock and Laney suggest
the Democrats might be testing Bush’s knees. “He
doesn’t have a plan,” Bullock told Texas Monthly in
early December. “He just has ideas. He says he’ll
give us an outline. When you pass a tax bill, you better
know what you’re doing because Texas is stuck with
it for a long, long time.”
Laney, according to one Capitol staffer, was “so
angry he was shaking” when he learned from news
sources that Bush had pledged a billion dollars for
tax relief after maintaining for months that his pro-
posal would be “revenue neutral.” So the Speaker
went after Bush — in private and in the press. In
November, he told the Governor to stop listening to
his political advisers and start listening to his legis-
lative advisers. In December told the Houston
Chronicle there might not be enough surplus funds
to cut school taxes by $1 billion. And in early-January
he told the Dallas Morning News that he’d like to
see the Governor’s plan “in written form.”
“We’d like to see something in writing rather than
in concepts. We’ve worked with him in the past on
concepts. We’ve said we’ll try to work this one out;
we’ll go forward vith you. But taxes are a little more
critical deal,” Laney said.
IF THE GOVERNOR IS to make himself present-
lable for the Republican nomination in 2000 — and
almost all the handicappers have him in the top five
— he has got to deliver a tax cut All the other
Republican governors mentioned — Christine Todd
Whitman of New Jersey, John Engler of Michigan,
Tommy Thompson of Wisconsin — have proved their
manhood by cutting taxes. At a Republican Gover-
nor’s conference in Michigan, Thompson even
warned Bush not try to replace money lost in prop-
erty tax reform by raising taxes elsewhere. “I cut
every state agency, every program, 5 percent the
first year and 10 percent the second year," Thompson
said. “I would suggest that instead of raising taxes,
that he cut state agencies.”
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 16, 1997, newspaper, January 16, 1997; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth738119/m1/3/: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.