Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, July 12, 1991 Page: 1 of 12
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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF DELL VALLEY & HUDSPETH COUNTY
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NUMBER 46
25 CENTS A COPY
12 PAGES
FRIDAY, JULY 12, 1991, DELL CITY, TEXAS 79837
VOLUME 34
LOCAL JUDGES ATTEND SEMINAR
REMINISCING ABOUT THE HELMS RANCH
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The Dell City Clinic
will be closed July
17 and 24. Dr. Wiant
will be on vacation.
Live each day so that
you will neither be afraid
of tomorrow nor ashamed
of yesterday.
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PLEASE NOTE: The 1991 Fair Book is being put together now — any-
one and/or chairmen desiring changes or additions to the different cate-
gories, PLEASE turn them in as soon as possible - within the next ten
days. The book has to go to press the first week in August. Also, every-
one should be thinking about entries for Needlework, Culinary, Fine
Arts, Hobbies & Crafts, Agriculture, The County Fair is September 13-
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LONG MAY IT WAVE.1
Hudspeth Coun
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The key to total tax collection
consolidation rests with our
much respected County Tax
Assessor-Collector, whose
service county-wide over the
years has been time-honored.
Stella’s help and cooperation
is badly needed now to achieve
what is being accomplished all
over the state, and that is con-
solidation of all aspects of ad
valorem taxation to cut costs
and add convenience for the
taxpayer.
I will keep all concerned post-
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JUDGES ATTEND SEMINAR — Seventy-three justices of the peace
attended a 20-hours seminar May 21-24 in San Angelo conducted by
the Texas Justice Court Training Center headquartered at Southwest
Texas State University in San Marcos. The seminars are held in com-
pliance with supreme court rule and statute (Art. 27. 005), Texas gov-
ernment code. Topics covered included courtroom security, forcible
entry and detainer statutes, a mock civil trial, judicial ethics, duties,
of a magistrate, vital statistics, alternate sentencing, teen court, con-
stitutional law and a search and arrest warrant workshop. Attending
were, left to right, Henry "Button" Garlick of Culberson County, Pre-
cinct 4, Place 1; A. P. Flores, Jr. , of Culberson County, Precinct 2,
Place 1; Nedra Parker of Culberson County, Precinct 3, Arcadio J. Ra-
Ramirez of Hudspeth County, Precinct 1, Place 1; Oleta Sanders of
Hudspeth County, Precinct 4, Place 1; and Robert H. Dart of Hudspeth
County, Precinct 3. ______________________
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FAIR MEETING TUESDAY,
JULY 16 ! ! ! 7:00 P. M. at the
Dell Telephone Conference
Room. All 1991 Fair Chairmen
and all directors are urged to
attend this meeting - it is
important to summ arize plans
NOW for the September 13-14-
15 Fair. Anyone interested in
participating and helping with
the Fair, please come. Your
help is needed and ideas are
needed.
CONSOLIDATION OF
TAX COLLECTIONS
IN HUDSPETH COUNTY
-John Ferrell, Chief Appraiser
The 72nd Session of the State
Legislature has added another
taxing district to our rolls in
the form of COUNTY EDUCA-
TION DISTRICTS, created to
cope with apparent need for
better distribution of education-
al tax dollars throughout the
state. This new district's
board of directors met inaugur-
ally in Ft. Hancock on June 18,
elected its officers and comm-
enced immediately their duties
to levy, collect and distribute
a portion of each’school district’s
local tax fund as directed by
the Texas Education Agency.
The CED's Board of Dire ctors
has asked me to prepare a plan
to provide for consolidation of
all school district tax collections,
including their portion, in one
location in Sierra Blanca, staff-
ed by separate tax assessor-
collector and sited in a separate
building due to crowded condi-
tions in the courthouse. Such
a plan must then be studied
and revised if needed, then
finally approved, by both the
CED and each school district
board of trustees.
While making this study, I
will also continue finalizing a
plan for consolidation of all
tax collections with the Huds-
peth Appraisal District thereby
providing for management of
both assessments and collections
under one roof and with one
staff. This over-all consolida-
tion can be accomplished as
ecomonically as a separate plan
for collection of school and
CED taxes. The appraisal
district is already in possession
of all tax statement data, such
as name and address of taxpay-
er, parcel ID, description,
exemption, frozen tax amounts,
etc. The computer only has
to add actual tax levy informa-
tion, then the statements can
be mailed and he tax payments
receipted and distributed all
from the same source and
location. The county's tax-
paying citizens will then be
priviledged to look to one
agency in all matters concern-
ing appraisals and tax collections,
thus saving many, many unne-
cessary out-of-pocket costs now'
being incurred.
Mrs. Robert (Alice) Beard discusses earlier days at the Double U
Ranch with Nellie Helms Williams, the last living child of John
Elias Helms, who in 1892 ranched in Crow Flat and Orange, north-
east of what is now the town of Dell City. In 1907 Helms sold
Crow Flat to H.H. Altman, then moved his family to the Sierra
Alto Ranch in Hudspeth County and El Paso County. The ranch
was located 38 miles east of El Paso and 7 1/2 miles north of U. S.
Highway 62/180 (Carlsbad Highway), including what is now the
Double U Ranch owned and operated by Robert and Alice Beard -
the Double U is southeast of Sierra Alto and south of 62/180 about
50 miles east of El Paso. The Sierra Alto Ranch home was built
in 1929 on the eastern slopes of the Sierra Alto Mountain about a
mile high in elevation. The rock house stands today and is in
excellent condition. At the time when the ranch was at its largest,
it was 27 miles by 56 miles (1, 123, 200 acres). Some of this was
leased land. Much of the Double U Headquarters and Beard home
were remembered by Mrs. Williams and familiar to her - the
Beards modernized the home, and with Alice s artistic talents, the
original 'personality' and features are seen and felt. Nellie
Williams, 93, lives in El Paso near her daughter Nellie Jo Britton
and husband, Charles, and near granddaughter, Mary Ann Gould
FAIR MEETING TUESDAY
DULY 16 7 PM
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Lynch, Mary Louise. Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, July 12, 1991, newspaper, July 12, 1991; Dell City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1536025/m1/1/?q=denton+history: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .