The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1982 Page: 1 of 26
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Vol. 77 No. 48
Thursday, April 22,1982
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Less value, less taxes—
Corrected rolls costing districts dollars
President challenged:
Coop's by-laws floor fight fizzles
Child suffers minor
injuries as hit by car
Absentee
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Tuesday
Friday night’s Fish Fry in Montague brought out a
crowd of more than 1,000 diners as the Montague
goes to
$1,000
Volunteer Fire Department prepared meals for all
of the visitors prior to Saturday’s Chili Cook-off.
Jimmy Guinn, white shirt, Nocona Chamber of
Commerce vice-president, does the honors and cuts
the ribbon for the grand opening of Nocona Tire &
Appliance, recently purchased bv Metta Jo and
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ownerships before setting the tax
rates.
As a result, any purging took
place as the districts collected taxes
and reviewed the stacks and stacks
Jerry Admire (third and fourth from right) \ two
week grand opening celebrat ion is < urrent h under-
way at the store located at Bois D- \r< and < las
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MUENSTER — Attempts to
amend the by-laws and unseat the
board president from the floor of
the Cooke County Electric
Cooperative Annual Membership
meeting fizzled Monday night.
The traditionally tepid meeting
was sparked by the unsuccessful
efforts of former board member
John Klements of Muenster to
change the association's by-laws
and unseat Vicent Zimmerer.
ting a tax rate.
The tax districts used the total
property values ceritified by the
Board of Equalization to set their
1981 tax rates in early December.
Because of the lateness of the
certification none of the districts
had the luxury of double-checking
the property rolls to purge any
duplications, non-existant pieces
of property or multiple-
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" But I think the property values
were in pretty poor shape for the
money we paid (the Montague
County Appraisal District) for
them,’’ the mayor criticized.
The loss in property values
may, in fact, have an effect on the
1982 tax rate. Mayor Roberts
warns.
‘ ‘ As far as the tax rate holding
stedy where it has been, we might
have been able to come down (on
the rate), but now we probably
won’t be able to," he complained.
For the hospital district, the big
gest looser locally, the situation
has also been resolved, at least
partially, by additional revenues
from other sources.
"We did not anticipate collec
tions the $300,000," said Hospital
Adm. Johnny Richardson,
"The money we’ll losse in taxes
will be about $8,000," he said ad-
ding that the amount would be
made up from other sources.
"We anticipated this problem
coming and planned for it.
‘ But not at that amount. W'e
tried to budget ( a contigency) in
there."
Additionally, the hospital
district's share of the Appraisal
District’s budget is actually less
than anticipated, so the hospital
expenses for that service went
down.
All totaled, the 13 tax entities in
Montague County are having to
cinch their belts 3.5% tighter
because they are expecting
the description for absentee voting
in the May 1 party primaries.
I hrough Monday morning.
County Clerk Christine Cook
reports only 19 people had voted
absentee in person with another 10
requesting ballots by mail.
" That’s lighter than usual for a
party primary." the absentee
voting clerk notes.
Absentee voting for the May 1
Democratic and Republican Party
Primaries will < lose with the end of
business l uesdav. April 27.
Persons who anticipate being
out of town M iy I should stop b
the County Clerk's (JHice in M on
tague anl vote absentee.
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A reward of $ 1,000 is offered for |
information leading to an arrest |
and indictment in the April 10 |
burglary of a Carolyn Road s
residence by Nocona Crimestop- i
pers. |
The fourth home to be j
burglarized in that section of town
this year, the owners lost eight |
guns, cash and jewelry in the theft. I
Nocona Crimestoppers is offer- |
ing the reward for information |
which leads to the arrest and in- I
dictment of the person or persons s
responsible for the theft. I
Information can be phoned in to |
Crimestoppers at 825-6570. I
The caller is given an inden- I
tification number to be used in all I
future contacts. «
Should an arrest and indictment i
be returned in the case, the caller I
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economy," Zimmerer noted in his
business report, the cooperative
experienced a gain in total
revenues while seeing a decline in
See REVENUES Page 2
By Tracy Mesler problems, solutions and delays.
For the taxpayers, the shock of Now the problem is one of trim
the 1981 ad valorem tax process is ming a budget at the last minute to
about over. meet a decline of between 2.9 and
But for the local tax entities, the 9.0% in projected revenues.
shock of loosing thousands of In each case, the local taxing en-
dollars in projected tax revenues tity anticipated the uproar over the
because of errors in preparing the revised property values. As a
property rolls is just now setting result, each of the entities tried to
in. play it close to the vest in terms of
The 1981 tax year was one of leaving a small surplus while set-
$181,815 less in total tax revenues.
Locally, the Nocona Hospital
District was the biggest loser
$27,117 and 9.0%.
The Nocona schools lost
$18,500 in projected tax levy,
5.5%. And the city lost $10,000 in
tax levy, 2.9%.
In each case, the tax entity
either has additional, unexpected
revenues to make up for the loss,
and/or it anticipated the potential
for overstating the property rolls
and budgeted some contingency
amounts to cover part of the lost
revenues.
But it is still causing problems.
"Because of enrollment, we're
going to get between $25,000 and
$30,000 in state funds that we
didn’t budget, and that we did not
anticipate," says Supt. Dr. Jim
Rogers.
But the additional enrollment
also brought additional expenses
for the district during the year.
‘ ‘ I had hoped that we would
have the additional money, but
it’ll just have to go in there and
make up the (tax dollars) we lost, ’
he said.
"We left a little room (for such
problems),,’ Rogers noted, "but
not $18,000 worth!"
For the city, "revenue sharing
keeps going up." nots Mayor
Lynn Roberts, "so that’s help
there a little bit.
is to call the same number again
and a cash money drop will be ar-
ranged to pay the reward.
Crimestoppers is a program
supported by local businessmen
interested in helping develop
leads, clues and information
relating to major offenses in the
Nocona trade area.
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Cedar onto Montague), and she
didn’t see the little girl step out in
to the crosswalk and start crossing
the street."
Tuesday afternoon, two cars
suffered major damage in an acci-
dent at the intersection of Grayson
and Walnut Streets.
Roger Dale Claxton, 18, of
Nocona was issued citations for
failure to yeild right-of-way and
no operator’s license when his
1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass smashed
into the left front of a 1978
Chrysler driven by George Stowe
of Nocona.
Stowe was southbound on
Grayson when Claxton drove
through a stop sign as he proceed
ed westbound on Walnut Street.
Both vehicles had to be towed
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board president.
Klements sought, unsuccessful-
ly, to return the nomination of
board candidates back to the
members by proposing the by-laws
be ammended to allow a petition
of any 15 members to place the
name of a candidate on the annual
ballot.
Zimmerer and then Coop at
torney Richard Starke of
Gainesville pointed out that
Klements’ efforts were out of
order.
You run this cooperative," the
attorney told the group, "not this
management, not these directors .
. . but you have to do it in an
orderly way.
"You as the membership left it
up to the directors to amend the
by-laws," Starke told Klements
and the gathering.
The Cooperative by-laws were
amended several years ago requir-
ing a two-thirds vote of the board
of directors to amend the by -laws.
As a result, any attempt to
amend the by-laws and return the
control of the nomination process
from the hands of the board
appointed nominating committee
to a membership-based petition
process must be approved by the
board.
"If there’s a ground swell,
grass roots (movement) that you
want those by-laws changed,
they’ll change them," the attorney
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“(But) it’s the board’s
perogative to change the
by-laws.”
"I don’t believe that the
membership has anything to do
with how the coop’s run,"
Klements rebutted as President
Zimmerer announced he would
overrule any motions to amend
the by laws.
Starke, as the Muenster Public
School auditorium was buzzing
with comments for and against
Klements’ motion, called for a
show of hands to "give the board
an indication" of the mood of the
membership.
"This vote you just took,"
Starke announced, "the directors
said was about 50-50."
When the Nominating Com-
mittee announced its nomination
of Billy P. Farr and Vincent Znn
merer for the two district seats, a
motion for election by acclimation
was frustrated.
Klements nominated William
Hermes, who resides in the same
district as Zimmerer. as an alter
native to the president.
A quickly appointed vote-
counting panel canvassed the
results of the election and an
nounced that Farr and Zimmerer
were elected; but no vote totals
were proclaimed.
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Nine-year-old Amber Stillwell,
a student of Nocona Elementary
School, suffered minor injuries
Wednesday afternoon when she
was struck by a car while crossing
Montague Highway in a
crosswalk.
Annie Walter Branson of 901
Gray in Bowie, was southbound
on Montague in a 1974 Ford when
she struck the nine yearold, toss
ing her about 20 feet following im
pact.
Stillwell suffered minor in
juries, bruises, scrapes and cuts,
reported Police Chief Fred Castle,
who investigated the report.
Branson was issued a citation
for failure to yeild right-of-way to
a pedestrian.
The driver, "said she was wat
thing the school bus (turning off)
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Mesler, Tracy R. The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 22, 1982, newspaper, April 22, 1982; Nocona, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1493842/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Friends of the Nocona Public Library.