The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1988 Page: 2 of 12
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Page 2, The Nocona News, Thursday, November 3,1988
TRACKS AND TRACINGS
| By Tracy R, Mesler ~]
To those NHS and NMS students
who were recognized last week for
making their respective honor rolls for
the first six weeks, one of those grimlins
you hear about invaded my camera
and stacked 18 pictures one on top of
another on lop of another on top of
another.
We’ll get with school officials and
sec what can be done to reshoot them.
What’s it costing Nocona to have,
at last rough count, 10 small retail
business locations vacant?
According to a summary prepared
by Washington, D.C., real estate con-
sultant Donovan Rypkcma, as reported
in the Texas Press Association’s
“Messenger,” a lot.
According to Rypkcma, the costs
of a small building sitting vacant in a
small community arc as follows:
“1. $125,000 in sales al the loca-
tion.
"2. $15,000 in salaries.
“3. $6,000 in rent.
“4. $5,600 in business profits.
“5. $875 in property taxes.
“6. $13,400 in non-real estate loan
demand.
“7. $58,500 in properly values.
“8. $3,400 in utilities.
“9. $2,000 in advertising revenues.”
Think about it, these are figures for
a “small town” not a big city, and they
apply to a “small building silting va-
cant.”
You can multiple those figures by
the number of currently boarded up
retail locations in Nocona and get an
idea of what is missing from our local
economy:
+$ 1.25 million in lost annual sales!
+$150,000 in lost annual salaries
— or jobs for between 15 and 20 of
your neighbors or relatives.
+$8,750in property taxes that aren * t
being paid by those business, instead
they are being paid by the rest of us in
the form of higher taxes.
+$585,000 in property values lost
from the tax rolls.
+$34,000 in utilities which help
pay the salaries of the local employees
of those companies.
Now the reasons those buildings
being vacant are varied. Some have
closed because of poor retailing man-
agement, some have closed because
the owners retired and nobody was
willing to pay their price for an exist-
ing busines, some are closed because
the owners made money, but spent
more than they made.
And then there are those, modest
businesses, that were fairly well run—
until their customers were like that
thick headed cow that always thought
the grass was greener on the other side.
In other words, not shopping at
home first — making an honest effort
to find it here first, at a reasonable
price at home before looking else-
where.
It’s not just hurting the businesses.
It’s hurting you and me!
Those are lost jobs for our spouses,
neighbors and friends.
That’s lost property tax revenues
that are being made up out of your
pocket and mine because the cost of
doing business as a government has
slowed just because 10 buildings sit
vacant.
And that’s lost community pride
Now then, what are we doing,
Nocona, about putting new small busi-
nesses back in (hose vacant buildings?
(And covering the windows and
using retail business locations for fac-
tory warehouses is not the same as
havingaretail business there, although
it is far, far better than having the
building sitting totally idle.)
I’m like a lot of folks, I think, basi-
cally displeased, almost disgusted with
the choice of Presidential candidates
Tuesday.
Unfortunately, we’re not as pro-
gressive as Chile (who would have
ever thought we’ve even ponder such
a statement about a military dictator-
ship!)
We can’t simply vote: “None of the
above.” Although, I suspect the vast
majority of the voters in Nocona, and
the country would prefer an alterna-
tive, almost any alternative choice to
the ones we face Tuesday.
That’s not to say don’t vote. If you
don’t vote, then you allow special in-
terest groups who mobilize highly emo-
tional, baised supporters to dominate
the ballot boxes and make our choices
for us.
Go vote — and then let’s try and
force our local political party repre-
sentatives to find us better candidates
Secretary ready to
rain on vote fraud
for office! That’s where it all starts^
nd that’s where the change starts.
While on the subject of displeasure
with our state and national legislators
ever gel the feeling that much of what
happens down in Austin has an under-
lying sense of feeding the job security
By Jack M. Rains
Secretary of State of Texas
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is
not the only horror story in the state.
It’s frightening to know that on elec-
tion day, names of the deceased are
found on voter reg istration rol Is. Truck
loads of ineligible voters arc hauled
from precinct to precinct. Ballot boxes
are stuffed. Votes disappear.
Make no mistake, vote fraud has
been, and remains, a serious problem
in Texas. While a few wink and turn
away, vote fraud is a crime. Even in a
state as large as Texas, one or two
fradulent ballots per precinct can
change the outcome of an election.
In this year’s presidential cam-
paigns, both candidates have made
Crimea major issue. Certainly, no crime
strikes at the heart of our democratic
system more insidiously than vote
fraud.
As Chief Election Officer of Texas,
I have launched a crusade to end vote
fraud. I asked my Asst. Sec. of State
Randall H. Erbon to personally take
charge of this effort. The Secretary of
State is authorized to deploy election
inspectors across the state at his dis-
cretion and must send an inspector to
an area where 15 of its registered vot-
ers request one. The demand for in-
spectors is great this year, reflecting
the public’s growing intolerance of
vole fraud.
Inspectors stationed in a polling
place are usually inconspicuous. They
merely arbitrate disputes and point our
ircegularities to election officials. If
an election judge or clerk refuses to
follow the law, then the inspector will
call in specially trained law enforce-
ment officers who will be on standby
that day.
To ensure that partisanship and egos
do not interfere with elections, we
targeted two groups from which to
recruit election inspectors. First, I
asked attorneys. Lawyers, as officers
of the court, are easily trained on
applicable election law and receive
Art Club readies its
annual exhibit, tea
The Montague County Porcelain
Art Club will hold its annual exhibit
and tea Saturday, Nov. 5, al the F&M
National Bank Community Room from
2-4 p.m.
There will be hand-painted china
for sale.
Drawings will be held every 30
mjnutes. And the club will be giving
away a handmade quilt at 4 p.m.
The first official American flag was
dispalyed in 1776 in the American
lines besieging Boston. It had 13 red
and white stripes and the British
Union Jack in the upper left.
continuing legal education credit for
the Slate Bar of Texas by taking our
course and working on election day.
The second group we targeted are
public employees. These dedicated
public servants administer the laws of
Texas day in and day out in an even-
handed, non-partisan fashion. Both
groups make excellent inspectors.
The training session an inspector
must attend provides a clear, concise
presentation of Texas election laws.
Our professional legal staff convers
the most frequent problems faced on
election day and outlines procedures
for correcting illegalities at the pol ling
place.
Election inspectors are not poll
watchers or other monitors who work
for a particular party, candidate or
cause. Election inspectors are officers
of the state. Inspectors’ activities will
be coordinated with U.S. Attorneys,
the F.B.I. and the Texas Department
of Public Safety.
By deploying inspectors across the
state, I hope we can avoid fraud through
deterrence. For those who would still
consider tampering with the demo-
cratic process, I offer this warning:
Don’t Mess With Texas Elections!
frenzie of the barristers of this state?
and that seems to always cost us non-
lawyers?
How many out there would goalong
with an amendment to the abused Texas
Constitution banning all holders, past
or present, of a license to practice law
from sitting in cither chamber of the
Texas Legislature!
It’s point two in my relief package
for the governed.
Point one is requiring you to attend
al least one, regular session of a local
govern ing bod y ’ s meetings before you
are allowed to vole. The thought is,
you ought to know what the heck you’ re
voting on, not just on personalities. It’s
amazing how elected officials’ eyes
get bigger when their cramped and
tiny meeting chambers fill up with that
most dreaded of sights: VOTERS!
A word of thanks to those who
helped us breech the gap while we
were out of town over the weekend
taking part in a Scout Show with 8,000
other Scouts at the Mcphis, Tenn.,
Naval Air Station: Nell Ann McBroom,
Stephanie Eischicd, Mickey Frushour,
Todd Fore and Norma Snow.
Thank you.
Bobby
ALBERT
For State Senate
The Conservative Choice Is Clear!
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the winding river’s edges, as one of the
Texas Highway Commissioners noted
during a public hearing held in Austin
last January.
“All of us fell pretty good about it,”,
Mrs. Wingate said of the compromise
and Muenster’s willingness to go along
with the Red River Connection, the
two state highway departments and
Oklahoma interests.
Costumes
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followed by Addie Williams.
In the 10- to 15-year-old category.
Josh Nix won Most Original followed
by Kandy Yarbrough and Gina
Lobban.
A.J. Hilton won Scariest followed
by Steven Travis.
And Christina Williams won Fun-
niest followed by Jennifer Reeves.
In the 16-and-over category, Lisa
Hilton won Most Original followed by
Janet Barker, Karen Travis and Ken-
neth Travis.
Paul Gilbert son Scariest followed
by Melanie Burleson, Evelyn Morrow
and the mystery witch.
The rains moved in before the
pumpkin decorating contest could get
underway, cutting into the participa-
tion.
Heath Walker won the carved 10
and under while Brandy Carpenter took
second.
Randi McBroom won the deco-
rated 10 and under division.
In the 11- to 15-year-old category,
Kandi Walker won in the carved divi-
sion while Scott Carpenter took sec-
ond.
And in the 16-and-over category.
Janelie Marks and Dennis and Janna
McBroom tied for first place in Deco-
rated Pumpkins while Dennis
McBroom and Diane Carpenter tied
for second.
In last week’s story about NHS
senior Dinnorah Hancock receiving a
$1,000 scholarship from the Farm
Bureau, the information provided was
inaccurate. According to her mother,
Connie Hancock Rincon, Dinnorah,
his brother, Jimmy, and sister, Jodie,
live with their mother at 401 E. Pine
St., not with their grandparents, Char-
les and Mary Jones.
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Mesler, Tracy R. & Mesler, Linda L. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 3, 1988, newspaper, November 3, 1988; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1209460/m1/2/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Montague+County%22: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.